This book is about a contemporary social phenomenon which is known by a number of different names: "the Volunteers' Movement", "the Service Movement" or just "Hizmet." Hizmet is also often referred to as the Gülen Movement by researchers and journalists, using the name of the Islamic scholar who inspired the Movement, Fethullah Gülen.
The Movement originated in 1970s' Turkey as a faith-inspired initiative to improve educational opportunities for a local community; since then, it has grown into a transnational educational, intercultural and interfaith movement. It is estimated that participants number in several millions. Hizmet has securely established respected institutions (of different kinds, but mostly schools) on every continent revealing the capacity of an Islam-inspired movement to mobilize huge numbers of religiously minded and observant individuals not only to accept but to cherish a secular, pluralist, democratic social and political order.
Hizmet has attracted a great deal of academic attention in recent years. This book is intended to summarize and represent the conclusions of much of that academic work in a manner more easily accessible to the lay person or non-specialist.
Este libro aborda un fenómeno social contemporáneo conocido como «Hizmet» o «movimiento de voluntarios». En círculos académicos se lo denomina frecuentemente como «Movimiento Gülen» por el nombre de la persona que lo inspiró, Fethullah Gülen. El Movimiento nació en Turquía en la década de los 70 del siglo pasado como una iniciativa de inspiración religiosa que se proponía mejorar las condiciones educativas en las comunidades locales; desde entonces ha crecido hasta convertirse en un movimiento educativo, intercultural e interreligioso, de carácter transnacional. Se calcula que sus miembros alcanzan ya varios millones. Hizmet ha creado y consolidado instituciones respetadas —de diversa naturaleza, pero fundamentalmente escuelas— en todos los continentes para mostrar la capacidad de un movimiento inspirado en el Islam para impulsar a un gran número de personas de conciencia religiosa y practicantes no sólo a que acepten un orden político y social laico, pluralista y democrático, sino para abrazarlo sinceramente.
Author: Muhammet Cetin
Publisher: Editorial La Fuente
ISBN 9789752785007
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