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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463098003321

Titolo

Islam and peacebuilding : Gulen movement initiatives / / edited by John L. Esposito, Ihsan Yılmaz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Blue Dome Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-935295-92-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

297.27

Soggetti

Peace-building - Religious aspects - Islam

Globalization - Religious aspects - Islam

Social movements - Religious aspects - Islam

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 4: The Limits of Otherness in Fethullah Gülen's Dialogic Methodology for Interfaith Encounters / Irina Vainovski-MihaiChapter 5: Dialogue as a Source of Peaceful Coexistence / Karina Korostelina; Chapter 6: Gülen on Healing the Rift between Islam and the West / Richard Penaskovic; Part 3 Theology of Dialogue in Comparative Perspective; Chapter 7: Preachers of Dialogue: International Relations and Interfaith Theology / Turan Kayaoglu; Chapter 8: Fethullah Gülen's Theology of Peacebuilding / Zeki Sarıtoprak

Chapter 9: Islamic Prospects for Interreligious Dialogue: The Voice of Fethullah Gülen / Douglas PrattChapter 10: Tolerance in the Theology and Thought of A.J. Conyers and Fethullah Gülen / David B. Capes; Part 4 Peacebuilding in Global Action; Chapter 11: Phnom Penh's Fethullah Gülen School as an Alternative to Prevalent Forms of Education for Cambodia's Muslim Minority / Philipp Bruckmayr; Chapter 12: Investigating the Contribution of Fethullah Gülen through the Activities of a Gülen-inspired Religio-cultural Society Based in Ireland / Jonathan Lacey

Sommario/riassunto

The exploration of the contributions 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 Gulen. The importance and distinctiveness of teaching of Gulen and the practice of the movement is that it is rooted in a confident Turkish Islamic heritage while being fully engaged with modernity. It offers the possibility of a contextualised renewal of Islam for Muslims in the modern world while being fully rooted in the teachings of the Qu'ran and the Sunnah of the Prophet. It advocates the freedom of religion