The Philippine army chief has honored Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen with a special award for the charity activities and contributions to peace of the faith-based Hizmet movement.
September 27, 2013
Fethullah Gulen Movement as a Global Educational and Inter-Religious Model (2)
Ian G. Williams*
Mobilization in the Public Arena
…In his writings and presentations, Fethullah Gulen attempts to mobilise the universal spiritual elements within the [Islamic / Sufi] traditions, codes and idioms of the past to advance new symbolic systems that can, in important ways, stand out as guideposts for the future. Intriguingly, this approach is inclusivist in nature and not bound to one national culture, heritage and identity.
Mobilization in the Public Arena
…In his writings and presentations, Fethullah Gulen attempts to mobilise the universal spiritual elements within the [Islamic / Sufi] traditions, codes and idioms of the past to advance new symbolic systems that can, in important ways, stand out as guideposts for the future. Intriguingly, this approach is inclusivist in nature and not bound to one national culture, heritage and identity.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)