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UNINA9910457453703321 |
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Corrigall-Brown Catherine |
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Patterns of protest [[electronic resource] ] : trajectories of participation in social movements / / Catherine Corrigall-Brown |
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Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, c2012 |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Political activists - United States |
Political participation - United States |
Social action - United States |
Social movements - United States |
Social reformers - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. A Model of Participation; 2. Getting In: Initial and Shifting Engagement; 3. Trajectories of Participation; 4. Social, Political, and Organizational Context of Participation; 5. The Ties That Bind? The Effect of Social Ties and Interaction; 6. We Are Not All Activists: The Development and Consequences of Identity; 7. Beyond the "Activist"; Appendix: Methodology; Notes; References; Index |
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Asked to name an activist, many people think of someone like Cesar Chavez or Rosa Parks-someone uniquely and passionately devoted to a cause. Yet, two-thirds of Americans report having belonged to a social movement, attended a protest, or engaged in some form of contentious political activity. Activism, in other words, is something that the vast majority of people engage in. This book examines these more common experiences to ask how and when people choose to engage with political causes. Corrigall-Brown reveals how individual characteristics and life experiences impact the pathwa |
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UNINA9910787560303321 |
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Islam and peacebuilding : Gulen movement initiatives / / edited by John L. Esposito, Ihsan Yılmaz |
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New York, New York : , : Blue Dome Press, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Peace-building - Religious aspects - Islam |
Globalization - Religious aspects - Islam |
Social movements - Religious aspects - Islam |
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Materiale a stampa |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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