Alternative Perspectives of the Gülen Movement

A conference entitled 'Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative Perspectives of the Gulen Movement' has been held on November 14-15, 2008 at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Below are the full texts of the conference papers. Adobe's pdf versions of the papers as a whole can be found at conference's web site.

#	Article Title	Author
1	Interreligious Dialogue as a Spiritual Practice	John Borelli
2	Defining Ethos in Global Values Education	Phyllis J. Robinson
3	Fethullah Gülen and the Concept of Responsibility	Simon Robinson
4	The Gülen Movement: Gender and Practice	Patrick Hällzon
5	Fighting Poverty with Kimse Yok Mu	Thomas Michel, S.J.
6	Islamic Himmah and Christian Charity: An Attempt at Inter-Faith Dialogue	Dr. Özgüç Orhan
7	Seeds of Peace: Solidarity, Aid, and Education Shared by the Gülen Movement in Southeastern Turkey	Martha Ann Kirk
8	Gülen-inspired Schools in the East Africa: Secular Alternative in Kenya and Pragmatist Approach to Development in Uganda	Mehmet Kalyoncu
9	Redefining "Us" and "Them": Gülen's Approach to Transformation of Perceptions between Muslims and Non-Muslims	Karina Korostelina
10	Unresolved Concerns of Women in the Modern Age: How Does the Gülen Movement Contribute to the Women Question?	Gülsüm Gürbüz Küçüksarı
11	Women in Islam: Muslim Perspectives and Fethullah Gülen	M. Sait Yavuz
12	Gülen's Dialogic Sufism: A Constructional and Constructive Factor of Dialogue	Heon Choul Kim
13	M. Fethullah Gülen: A Preacher of Piety and Integrity of Action: A Study in Analogy Between the Gülen Movement and the Clapham Circle	Lynn Mitchell
14	An Alternative Approach to Preventing Ethnic Conflict: The Role of the Gülen’s Schools in Strengthening the Delicate Relations Between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds with Particular Reference to the "Kirkuk Crisis"	Harun Akyol
15	Fethullah Gülen as a Transformational Leader: Exemplar for the "Golden Generation"	Karen A. Fontenot, Ph.D. & Michael J. Fontenot, Ph.D.
16	Charity Activities of the Gülen Movement: "Kimse Yok mu?" Foundation	Doğan Koç
17	Progress Through Piety: Sohbetler (Spiritual Gatherings) of the Women Participants in the Gülen Movement	Margaret J Rausch
18	The Importance of Dialogue in a Rooted Conception of Cosmopolitanism Fethullah Gülen and Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestary	Mahmud Maşaeli
19	Ending Terror - By Words Alone?	Steve Wright
20	Islam, Dialogue and the Gülen Movement in Australia	Greg Barton
21	Fethullah Gülen and Islamic Literary Tradition	Philipp Bruckmayr
22	Reductionist Approaches to the Rise and Aims of the Gülen Movement	Muhammed Çetin
23	Beyond Post-Islamism: A Critical Analysis of the Turkish Islamism's Transformation toward Fethullah Gülen's Stateless Cosmopolitan Islam	İhsan Yılmaz
24	The Driver in the Mind of Fethullah Gülen	John Haughey, S.J.
25	Reflections on Gülen Movement: How Islam is Promoting Liberal Democracy in Turkey	Nader Hashemi
26	Serendipitous Consequences of the Turko-Islamic Gülen Movement	W. Andrew Achenbaum
27	A Strategy for Peace: Gülen and the Islamic Conceptualization of Tolerance	Aaron Tyler
28	A Contextual Analysis of the Supporters and Critics of the Gülen Movement	Loye Ashton, Tamer Balcı
29	The Context of the Gülen Movement: The Exceptional Story of Turkish Islam	Mustafa Akyol
30	Dying for a Cause: Youth, Violence and the Gülen Movement─Beyond Tolerance and Dialogue	Jon Pahl, Ph.D.
31	From Gandhi to Gülen: The Habitus of Non-Agressive Action	Mustafa Gurbuz & Bandana Purkayastha
32	Interfaith Dialogue Organizations as Actors of Peace Building: Case of Rumi Forum Abstract	Zeynep Şahin
33	Hizmet: From Futuwwa Tradition to the Emergence of Movement in Public Space	Erkan Togoslu
34	Religious Freedom in the Baptist Vision and in Fethullah Gülen: Resources for Muslims and Christians	Paul Weller
35	"The Significance of the Fethullah Gülen Movement as a Global Educational and Inter-Religious Model of Social and Religious Change"	Ian G. Williams

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