The Gulen Movement Civic Service without Borders

by Cetin, Muhammed

• ISBN13: 9781935295082
• ISBN10: 193529508X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-16
• Publisher: Blue Dome Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Particular and general aims of this study	p. xv
Methodological questions	p. xvii
Insider/Outsider research and perspective	p. xix
Methodological consequences of the research	p. xx
Data collection and presentation	p. xxii
Present and future relevance	p. xxiv
Organization of the book	p. xxiv
The argument in brief	p. xxiv
The multi-polar approach	p. xxvi
Theoretical Background: Collective Action and Social Movements Theory	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Historical overview of collective action and social movements theory	p. 1
The 'classical' approaches	p. 2
The contemporary approaches	p. 3
Conclusion	p. 5
Historical Background	p. 11
Introduction	p. 11
Crises and conflicts; demands for modernization	p. 12
The Republican era: one-party rule	p. 12
Laicism	p. 14
Cultural revolution	p. 15
Inönü, 'the National Chief' and 'Eternal Leader'	p. 18
Democrats, 1950-1960	p. 20
Military coup d'état	p. 24
After the executions: 1961-1970	p. 27
Military coup II	p. 32
Collapse of public order	p. 34
Military coup III	p. 38
New 'order'	p. 39
The Özal years	p. 41
President Özal	p. 44
Political Islam?	p. 47
'Post-modern' military coup	p. 48
Crash and corruption	p. 50
The return of Ecevit	p. 53
Implications of the historical background	p. 54
Conclusion	p. 60
Mobilization and Counter-Mobilization	p. 63
Introduction	p. 63
The Gülen Movement	p. 64
Cultural mobilization: public space and making new issues visible	p. 64
Cultural and symbolic production	p. 69
Information and media	p. 74
Social mobility and professionalism	p. 81
Reflexivity or symbolic potential	p. 85
Transnational projects and recognition	p. 90
Altruistic action and its symbolic challenge	p. 94
The February 28 process and its aftermath	p. 95
(Re)defining democracy	p. 102
Induced resolution	p. 111
Success of the Movement	p. 111
Conclusion	p. 113
Conjunctural Factors	p. 119
Conceptualizing the Gülen Movement(GM)	p. 119
Is the GM a civil society initiative?	p. 119
Is the GM a reaction to a crisis and/or an expression of a conflict?	p. 122
Is the GM a sector cult?	p. 134
Is the GM a political movement?	p. 149
Is the GM altruistic collective action and voluntary philanthropic service-projects?	p. 165
Conclusion	p. 175
Internal Organizational Factors And Components	p. 181
Introduction	p. 181
The case of the Gülen Movement	p. 182
Identity, participation and relationship	p. 182
Goals	p. 201
Intervention, power and authority	p. 208
SMOs and commitment	p. 214
Leadership	p. 221
Incentives and rewards	p. 230
Factionalism	p. 235
Conclusion	p. 240
Summary and Conclusions	p. 247
Defining the Gülen Movement	p. 247
On social movements generally	p. 247
The Gülen Movement as cultural actor	p. 251
The Gülen Movement as civil society actor	p. 260
Internal factors in the Gülen Movement	p. 270
Implications for social movements theory	p. 283
Appendices	p. 289
Special Usages	p. 295
Notes	p. 299
Bibliography	p. 327
Index	p. 363
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