Fethullah Gülen's Teaching and Practice : : Inheritance, Context, and Interactive Development.

• Author: Weller, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; {copy}2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (261 pages)

Table of Contents

Fethullah Gülen's Teaching and Practice -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- General Acknowledgements -- Copyright Permissions -- Personal and Professional Thanks -- Turkish Words -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Focus of the Book -- 1.2 A Religious Studies Approach -- 1.3 Situating in the Wider Literature -- 1.4 Evidence, Aims, and Methods -- References -- Part I: Turkish Muslim Scholar, Preacher, and Activist -- Chapter 2: Person, Places, and Development -- 2.1 Biographies of Fethullah Gülen -- 2.2 Erzurum: Traditional Contextualisation -- 2.3 Edirne: Secular and Plural Contextualisation -- 2.4 Izmir: Creative Contextualisation Through Differentiation -- 2.5 Istanbul: Withdrawal and Cosmopolitan Engagement -- 2.6 Pivotal Role of Educational Initiatives -- 2.7 Europe, Turkish Eurasia, and Beyond -- 2.8 'Enemy of the State' -- References -- Part II: Islamic Rootedness, Taboo-Breaking, and Socio-religious Implications -- Chapter 3: Biography, Context, and Substance in Interplay -- 3.1 Turmoil as Turkish Context -- 3.2 Distinctive Scholar, Teacher, and Innovator -- 3.3 Sources, Places, Times, and Revelatory Dynamics -- 3.4 Overcoming Secular-Political Taboos -- 3.5 Overcoming National-Cultural Taboos -- 3.6 Overcoming Religious Boundary Taboos -- References -- Chapter 4: Islamic Spirituality and Social Processing -- 4.1 Muslim Insecurity, the 'Heroic' Tradition, and Alternative Hermeneutics -- 4.2 Spirituality, the True Human, Love, and Service -- 4.3 For Human Freedom -- 4.4 Against Theocracy and for Democracy -- 4.5 Islam, Terror, and Deradicalisation by Default -- References -- Part III: Islamic Heroism, Hizmet Loss, and a Future Beyond Gülen? -- Chapter 5: Learning from Loss? -- 5.1 Wounded Exile -- 5.2 Gülen, Hizmet, and Dealing with Trauma -- 5.3 The Hijrah Interpretation and Post-Fact Religious Causality.

5.4 Self-Criticism and Its Limits -- References -- Chapter 6: Inheritance, Methodology, Integrity, and Creativity -- 6.1 Evaluating Gülen Interactively with Hizmet -- 6.2 Distinctive Normativity and Ordinary 'Normality' -- 6.3 Gülen and Hizmet: Now and Beyond -- 6.4 Linguistic Deposits, Interpretive Processing, and Informed Application -- 6.5 The Methodology of Learning by Doing -- 6.6 Love, the Human, and Ecumenical Ijtihads in Action -- 6.7 Going Beyond Gülen? -- References -- Index.