RT Book
T1 The Gülen Movement: Transformative Social Change
T2 Middle East Today
T2 SpringerLink Bücher
T2 Springer eBook Collection Political Science and International Studies
A1 Cıngıllıoğlu, Salih
LA English
PP Cham
PB Palgrave Macmillan
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1657581551
AB This book presents findings from research into one of the world's most influential Islamic movements, the Gülen Movement, from the perspective of social transformation through adult education. At the core of research questions lies how the movement enrolls volunteers from all walks of life and transforms them to adopt its aims at the expense of their individual ideals. The book reveals the socio-psychological mechanisms that make such transformation possible by looking at how followers integrate weekly lectures and discussions on the theory and practice of Islam into their personal and social lives. The Gülen Movement offers a moderate interpretation of Islam and stresses the vitality of establishing communication with the members of all faiths. This book provides a window into how and why religion may roll into extremism by presenting findings from an opposite perspective: the participants in the research all define themselves as truly pious but do not even imply an act of violence in tens of hours of interviews. In short, the book weaves the strands of "Islamic," "movement," and "adult education" into a unified whole and limns the snapshot of a social movement, offering a comprehensive discussion of the role of adult education within the movement, as well as its transformative potential and its wider social and political implications
AB 1. Introduction  -- 2. The Research and the Researcher  -- 3. Social Movements, the Gülen Movement, and Transformative Adult Education  -- 4. The Participants of the Gülen Movement: First Encounters, Reasons, Significance, and Self-Positioning  -- 5. Sohbets as Adult Education  -- 6. Transformative Aspects of Sohbets  -- 7. Discussion and Reflections
CN JQ1758-1852
SN 9783319505053
K1 Political Science
K1 Islam
K1 Ethnology : Middle East
K1 Middle East : Politics and government
K1 Educational sociology
K1 Ethnography
K1 Education and sociology
K1 Sociology, Educational
K1 Religion and sociology
K1 Political Science and International Relations
DO 10.1007/978-3-319-50505-3