Formosa Institute and Taiwan Association of Islamic Studies (TAIS) are organizing a conference titled "
Hizmet Movement and the Thought and Teachings of Fethullah Gülen: Contributions to Multiculturalism and Global Peace" to be held on December 8-9 2012 and calling for papers with a deadline of June 30, 2012.
Objective
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| Fethullah Gulen |
The need for peaceful coexistence among the people of various cultures has long been recognized. By focusing on
Fethullah Gülen's teachings, this conference aims to explore the appeal and impact of the
Hizmet Movement's (a.k.a.
Gülen Movement or Volunteers Movement) worldwide initiatives to help people respond creatively to the profound social changes everywhere. These changes make the world an increasingly integrated place, while its people have different, often divided identities. A particular focus will be the movement's long-established and ongoing projects dedicated to building trust and cooperativeness among the people of different faith traditions, and cultures. To explore the appeal, meaning, and impact of
Fethullah Gülen's thoughts and the
Hizmet movement as exemplifying approaches to education,
dialogue, peace, and charity that transcend and mediate traditional distinctions between diverse cultures.
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| 2009 Gulen Movement conference at USC |
This conference follows a series of very successful conferences on the
Hizmet movement that are held at
University of Southern California (2009), Georgetown University (2008),
House of Lords and London School of Economics (2007),
University of Oklahoma (2006) and
Rice University (2005).
During the past several years, over 300 academicians around the world studied and presented on the impact of
Hizmet movement over religious, cultural, social spheres of the world. The growing interest in this new exciting field led us to give attention and thus, we are convening another International Conference on the
Hizmet movement with the title "
Hizmet Movement and the Thought and Teachings of Fethullah Gülen: Contributions to Multiculturalism and Global Peace" on December 8-9, 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C. Please note that the abstract deadline is June 30, 2012.
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, 30 May 2012, Wednesday
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