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1 online resource (285 pages) |
| Series |
Middle East Today |
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Middle East today.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Background; Guiding Questions; What Makes This Research Significant?; Overview of the Book; Note; References; Chapter 2: The Research and the Researcher; Who Was the Researcher?; What Was the Research About?; Which Research Approach Did the Researcher Employ?; What Was the Strategy of Inquiry?; Which Research Design Did the Researcher Use While Conducting the Research?; Where Did the Researcher Conduct the Research?; Who Were the Research Participants?; Pilot Study; First Encounters; The First Interview Attempt |
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The First Sohbet Hocası InterviewThe First Businessman Interview; How Did the Researcher Select the Participants for the Interviews?; How Did the Researcher Reach the Participants of the Research?; What Were the General Characteristics of the Research Participants?; Demographics; Educational Characteristics; The General Outlook; Interview Protocol; Protection of Human Subjects; Data Collection and Recording; Validity of the Data; Data Analysis; Data Organization; Comparing Incidents Applicable to Each Category; Synthesis of Categories and Their Properties; Delimiting the Theory |
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Writing the TheoryChallenges of Conducting the Research; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Social Movements, the Gülen Movement, and Transformative Adult Education; Social Movements; What Is a Social Movement?; When and Why Do Social Movements Occur?; How Do People Participate in Social Movements?; Islamic Social Movements; The Global Context; The Context in Turkey; The Nurcu Movement; The Gülen Movement; The Biography of Fethullah Gülen; The Ideology of the Gülen Movement; Educational Perspectives of the Gülen Movement; The Discourse of the Gülen Movement; Some Criticisms on the Gülen Movement |
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Adult EducationAims and Objectives; Principles in Adult Education; The Transformative Aspect of Adult Education; Social Movements, the Gülen Movement, and Adult Education; Summary of Chap. 3; Conceptual Framework of the Research; Notes; References; Chapter 4: The Participants of the Gülen Movement: First Encounters, Reasons, Significance, and Self-Positioning; The Recruitment to the Gülen Movement; The Persuasion; Teaching/Learning Spiritual Values; Raising a Generation; Social Activism; Social Space; The Significance; Positioning of the Self; Notes; References |
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Chapter 5: Sohbets as Adult EducationThe Schedule of Sohbets; The Venue of Sohbets; The Announcement of Sohbets; The Holiday Season of Sohbets; The Formation of the Sohbet Group; The Circulation of Participants in the Sohbet Group; The Sohbet Hocaları; The Quality of Sohbet Hocaları; The Interaction Between Sohbet Hocaları and Businessmen During Sohbets; The Duration of Sohbets; The Syllabus of Sohbets; Preparing for Sohbets; The Homework; The Aims and Objectives of Sohbets; What Is Learned at Sohbets?; Attendance; The Recruitment to the Sohbet Group; The Dropouts |
| Summary |
This book presents findings from research into one of the world's most influential Islamic movements, the Gülen Movement, from the perspective of social transformation through adult education. At the core of research questions lies how the movement enrolls volunteers from all walks of life and transforms them to adopt its aims at the expense of their individual ideals. The book reveals the socio-psychological mechanisms that make such transformation possible by looking at how followers integrate weekly lectures and discussions on the theory and practice of Islam into their personal and social lives. The Gülen Movement offers a moderate interpretation of Islam and stresses the vitality of establishing communication with the members of all faiths. This book provides a window into how and why religion may roll into extremism by presenting findings from an opposite perspective: the participants in the research all define themselves as truly pious but do not even imply an act of violence in tens of hours of interviews. In short, the book weaves the strands of "Islamic," "movement," and "adult education" into a unified whole and limns the snapshot of a social movement, offering a comprehensive discussion of the role of adult education within the movement, as well as its transformative potential and its wider social and political implications |
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The Complaints About Sohbets |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gülen, Fethullah -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Gülen, Fethullah fast |
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Social movements -- Turkey
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Social conditions
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Social movements
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| SUBJECT |
Turkey -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Turkey
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319505053 |
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331950505X |
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