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041    eng 
082 04 320.55709561|223 
092 0  320.5|bengelska 
100 1  Tee, Caroline,|4author 
245 14 The Gülen movement in Turkey :|bthe politics of Islam and 
       modernity /|cCaroline Tee 
264  1 London ;|aNew York, NY :|bI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,|c2016 
300    x, 227 pages ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-223) and 
       index 
505 0  Acknowledgements -- Note on Turkish spelling and 
       pronunciation -- Abbreviations. Introduction. Part 1 
       Background : Gülen: leader and community -- A Notion 
       spiritual framework for modernity. Part 2 Science and 
       education : The Gülen movement's science-focused schools -
       - Islamic creationism in Gülenist thought -- Higher 
       education, networking and careers in science. Part 3 The 
       wider context : Inter cultural dialogue -- Globalisation 
       of the movement, and Gülen in the USA -- Political 
       influence and the AKP. Afterword. Notes -- Bibliography --
       Index 
520 8  The Gulen, or Hizmet, movement in Turkey is the country's 
       most powerful and affluent religious organisation. Its 
       central tenet, advanced by its founder, the charismatic 
       Sunni preacher Fethullah Gulen (b. 1941), is that Muslims 
       should engage positively with modernity. A prime means of 
       advancing this philosophy has been education: at hundreds 
       of Gulen-run schools and universities, not only in Turkey 
       but also worldwide, instructors aim to cultivate the next 
       generation of Muslim bankers, biologists, software 
       engineers and politicians. But how does the Gulen movement
       resolve the sometimes conflicting positions of Sunni Islam
       and contemporary science for example, on evolutionary 
       theory? Drawing on sustained ethnographic research 
       conducted among Gulen communities in Turkey, Caroline Tee 
       analyses their complex attitudes towards secular 
       modernity. She focuses on education, science research and 
       industry to explore how pious Muslim practitioners engage 
       in science at high levels, arguing that the Gulen 
       movement's success in this critical area of modernity has 
       facilitated its rise to prominence in recent decades. 
       Considered against the backdrop of Turkish politics, and 
       particularly the acrimonious power-struggle between the 
       Gulen movement and its erstwhile ally, Turkey's ruling AK 
       Party, Gulenist engagement with modern science is revealed
       as a key source of its influence and success 
600 17 Gülen, Fethullah,|d1938-|2gnd 
610 24 Gülenrörelsen 
610 27 Gülen Hizmet Movement.|2fast 
650  7 Islam|2sao 
650  7 Politik|2sao 
650  7 Islam and science.|2fast 
650  7 Islam and social problems.|2fast 
650  7 Islam och vetenskap|2sao 
650  7 Statskupper|xhistoria|2sao 
651  4 Turkiet 
651  7 Turkey 
655  7 History.|2fast 
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