The Gulen Movement: Civic Service without Borders - Hardcover

Cetin, Muhammed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 193529508X ISBN 13: 9781935295082

Publisher: Blue Dome Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book seeks to develop an appropriate discourse for studying the Gulen Movement and phenomena like it. The established discourse concerns itself with social movements as protest, as challenge to the System, as contentious actors looking to alter or even overturn existing structures and/or policies in some field, usually political or economic. Approaching the matter from social movement theory and taking an insider's perspective, the author argues that the Gulen Movement is, as it has always been, non-contentious' it is not a marginalized actor working on the System from the outside. On the contrary, it has always worked within the System - within the boundaries of the laws and public norms that obtain in the different local and national settings where it has set up institutions.

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About the Author:

Muhammed Cetin received his master's degree from the University of Leicester and his PhD in Sociology from the University of Derby, UK. He has worked as lecturer, Vice Rector and Ministerial Adviser in Turkmenistan. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Religious Studies Department of the University of Houston and also in the Sociology Department of UT-Austin from 2003-2008. He worked in a voluntary capacity as the President of the Institute of Interfaith Dialog, USA from 2002-2008 and has served as organizer and speaker for a number of Interfaith Conferences and cultural activities. He is currently the publications coordinator of the Institute of Interfaith Dialog, USA and a columnist for the international daily Today's Zaman in Turkey. He is the author and producer of the DVD documentaries "Rumi and Universal Love and Dialogue" and "Call to Prayer."

About this edition

• Publisher: Blue Dome Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 193529508X
• ISBN 13: 9781935295082
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344