TY - BOOK AU - Cıngıllıoğlu,Salih ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Gülen Movement: Transformative Social Change T2 - Middle East Today SN - 9783319505053 AV - JQ1758-1852 U1 - 320.956 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Middle East—Politics and government KW - Islam KW - Religion and sociology KW - Educational sociology  KW - Education and sociology KW - Ethnology—Middle East  KW - Ethnography KW - Middle Eastern Politics KW - Sociology of Religion KW - Sociology of Education KW - Middle Eastern Culture N1 - 1. Introduction -- 2. The Research and the Researcher -- 3. Social Movements, the Gülen Movement, and Transformative Adult Education -- 4. The Participants of the Gülen Movement: First Encounters, Reasons, Significance, and Self-Positioning -- 5. Sohbets as Adult Education -- 6. Transformative Aspects of Sohbets -- 7. Discussion and Reflections; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50505-3 ER -