Zaman, US
Scholars from around the world gathered for a conference in Chicago to talk about the Gulen movement and Fethullah Gulen. Organizers say the meeting was necessary because fear and hatred continue to influence public opinion and there is a need to focus on people and groups that promote peace and understanding.
November 26, 2010
November 23, 2010
‘Fethullah Gulen not only my hero, also a model for other religions’
Hatice Avcı
A leading American minister has said all religions need an adherent like Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish-Islamic scholar whose teachings focusing on interfaith dialogue have been widely lauded around the world.
“He is not only my hero for what he has done for the Muslim societies but also [offers] a model for all other religions,” said Dirk Ficca, executive director of the Chicago-based Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions, an international NGO aiming to cultivate better understanding between the world’s religious and spiritual communities by highlighting the similarities while also acknowledging the differences between them.
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| Fethullah Gulen |
“He is not only my hero for what he has done for the Muslim societies but also [offers] a model for all other religions,” said Dirk Ficca, executive director of the Chicago-based Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions, an international NGO aiming to cultivate better understanding between the world’s religious and spiritual communities by highlighting the similarities while also acknowledging the differences between them.
November 22, 2010
‘Turkey facing hurdles in its EU journey because of Europe’s identity crisis’
Mustafa Edib Yilmaz
A leading researcher at the Washington, D.C.,-based Middle East Institute (MEI) has said Europe is currently going through a process of redefining its own identity, which plays and will continue to play a decisive role in Turkey’s accession process.
MEI Center for Turkish Studies Executive Director Gönül Tol agreed to speak with Sunday’s Zaman in İstanbul. Tol, who received her doctoral degree in political science from Florida International University, argued that the Enlightenment and its core ideals of human autonomy, progress, importance of reason and secularism formed the cornerstone of a common European identity, which opposed the role of established religion in directing thought and action. This new identity, Tol argues, defined a new role for religion outside the realm of the public sphere.
A leading researcher at the Washington, D.C.,-based Middle East Institute (MEI) has said Europe is currently going through a process of redefining its own identity, which plays and will continue to play a decisive role in Turkey’s accession process.
MEI Center for Turkish Studies Executive Director Gönül Tol agreed to speak with Sunday’s Zaman in İstanbul. Tol, who received her doctoral degree in political science from Florida International University, argued that the Enlightenment and its core ideals of human autonomy, progress, importance of reason and secularism formed the cornerstone of a common European identity, which opposed the role of established religion in directing thought and action. This new identity, Tol argues, defined a new role for religion outside the realm of the public sphere.
November 21, 2010
Towards ‘the conference-i kamil’ (2)
İhsan Yılmaz
Last week I started writing about the International Conference on the Gülen Movement held in Chicago, titled “The Gülen Movement: Paradigms, Projects and Aspirations,” and promised to continue this week.
On the second day of the conference, the first panel was titled “Sociological Approaches to the Hizmet Movement” and the speakers were Suveyda Karakaya of the University of Tennessee, Gökhan Bacık of Zirve University, and Muhammed Çetin of East Stroudsburg University.
Karakaya’s paper “Women in the Hizmet Movement: Traditionalists or Modernists?” examines the attitudes of 250 women affiliates from diverse backgrounds -- residing in Turkey and the US -- regarding controversial issues such as women’s access to higher education and employment, dress styles (including the headscarf) and their roles in the movement.
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| Int. Gulen Conference in Chicago |
On the second day of the conference, the first panel was titled “Sociological Approaches to the Hizmet Movement” and the speakers were Suveyda Karakaya of the University of Tennessee, Gökhan Bacık of Zirve University, and Muhammed Çetin of East Stroudsburg University.
Karakaya’s paper “Women in the Hizmet Movement: Traditionalists or Modernists?” examines the attitudes of 250 women affiliates from diverse backgrounds -- residing in Turkey and the US -- regarding controversial issues such as women’s access to higher education and employment, dress styles (including the headscarf) and their roles in the movement.
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