Islam and Peacebuilding Gulen Movement Initiatives

by Esposito, John; Yilmaz, Ishan

• ISBN13: 9781935295075
• ISBN10: 1935295071
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-16
• Publisher: Blue Dome Press

Summary

Transnational religious and faith-based movements play crucial roles in peacebuilding with their strong faith-based motivation, long term commitment, religious, spiritual and moral authority and ability to facilitate constructive social relations between different groups of population. It is not religion itself that is influential, but rather the ways in which it has been interpreted and practiced that is influential in religion's orientation toward radicalism, violence, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Thus, it is necessary to elaborate upon what Islam and Muslims have to say about peacebuilding. The exploration of the contributions to this volume is made with regards to the title in hand by the thought and practice of the global movement associated with the Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Glen.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Editors	p. ix
Contributors	p. xii
Introduction
Introduction: Islam and Peacebuilding: Gülen Movement Initiatives	p. 3
Gülen's Ideas on Freedom of Thought, Pluralism, Secularism, State, Politics, Civil Society and Democracy	p. 25
Islamic Resources for Peacebuilding: Achievements and Challenges	p. 39
Globalization and Gülen as Border Transgressor
Border Thinking: Fethullah Gülen and the East-West Divide	p. 65
The Limits of Otherness in Fethullah Gülen's Dialogic Methodology for Interfaith Encounters	p. 85
Dialogue as a Source of Peaceful Coexistence	p. 103
Gülen on Healing the Rift between Islam and the West	p. 123
Theology of Dialogue in Comparative Perspective
Preachers of Dialogue: International Relations and Interfaith Theology	p. 147
Fethullah Gülen's Theology of Peacebuilding	p. 169
Islamic Prospects for Interreligious Dialogue: The Voice of Fethullah Gülen	p. 189
Tolerance in the Theology and Thought of A.J. Conyers and Fethullah Gülen	p. 207
Peacebuilding in Global Action
Phnom Penh's Fethullah Gülen School as an Alternative to Prevalent Forms of Education for Cambodia's Muslim Minority	p. 225
Investigating the Contribution of Fethullah Gülen through the Activities of a Gülen-inspired Religio-cultural Society Based in Ireland	p. 249
Building Civil Society in Ethno-religiously Fractured Communities: The Gülen Movement in Turkey and Abroad	p. 273
Towards a Middle Way: Islam in Southeast Asia and the Contributions of the Gülen Movement	p. 291
The Role of Turkish Schools in Building Trusting Cross-ethnic Relationships in Northern Iraq	p. 311
Conclusion	p. 343
Index	p. 345
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