An Analysis of the Gülen Movement

It seems useful here to delineate some basic characteristics of the Western science and its outcomes before I proceed to

An Analysis of the Gülen Movement

Often, modern approaches do not consider a particular community’s mode of organization as being in line with modern society. The

An Analysis of the Gülen Movement

Undoubtedly, one of the important ideals that form the Islamic social and historical consciousness of the Gülen movement is the

An Analysis of the Gülen Movement

1. The Synthesis of Islam and the Turkish ApproachThe most important values that prevailed in the twentieth century were modernization,

An Analysis of the Gülen Movement

From the very beginning of this study, we have tried to express how some Western sociological perspectives are insufficient for

An Analysis of the Gülen Movement

The Gülen movement did not rise upon the values of a past movement or period of crisis. The movement has

An Analysis of the Gülen Movement

Since the Middle Ages, there existed polemical views of Islam in Western societies, defining it as a terrorizing and deviating

An Analysis of the Gülen Movement

It is clear that modernization has created fields of threat concerning our personal, social, and political identity of selfhood. The

In the discipline of sociology, the concept of community (Gemeinschaft) derives its importance and complexity from the appearance of the

An Analysis of the Gülen Movement

The new methodology of social science has the tendency to read social and civil movements in democratic societies as part