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Alternative Perspectives of the Gülen Movement

A conference entitled "Islam in the Age of Global Challenges: Alternative Perspectives of the Gulen Movement" has been held on November 14-15, 2008 at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Below are the full texts of the conference papers.

List of articles in category Alternative Perspectives of the Gülen Movement
Title	Author
"The Significance of the Fethullah Gülen Movement as a Global Educational and Inter-Religious Model of Social and Religious Change"	by Ian G. Williams
Interfaith Dialogue Organizations as Actors of Peace Building: Case of Rumi Forum Abstract	by Zeynep Şahin
Hizmet: From Futuwwa Tradition to the Emergence of Movement in Public Space	by Erkan Togoslu
Religious Freedom in the Baptist Vision and in Fethullah Gülen: Resources for Muslims and Christians	by Paul Weller
From Gandhi to Gülen: The Habitus of Non-Agressive Action	by Mustafa Gurbuz & Bandana Purkayastha
The Context of the Gülen Movement: The Exceptional Story of Turkish Islam	by Mustafa Akyol
Dying for a Cause: Youth, Violence and the Gülen Movement─Beyond Tolerance and Dialogue	by Jon Pahl, Ph.D.
A Strategy for Peace: Gülen and the Islamic Conceptualization of Tolerance	by Aaron Tyler
A Contextual Analysis of the Supporters and Critics of the Gülen Movement	by Loye Ashton, Tamer Balci
The Driver in the Mind of Fethullah Gülen	by John Haughey, S.J.
Reflections on Gülen Movement: How Islam is Promoting Liberal Democracy in Turkey	by Nader Hashemi
Serendipitous Consequences of the Turko-Islamic Gülen Movement	by W. Andrew Achenbaum
Reductionist Approaches to the Rise and Aims of the Gülen Movement	by Muhammed Çetin
Beyond Post-Islamism: A Critical Analysis of the Turkish Islamism's Transformation toward Fethullah Gülen's Stateless Cosmopolitan Islam	by İhsan Yilmaz
Fethullah Gülen and Islamic Literary Tradition	by Philipp Bruckmayr
Islam, Dialogue and the Gülen Movement in Australia	by Greg Barton
The Importance of Dialogue in a Rooted Conception of Cosmopolitanism Fethullah Gülen and Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestary	by Mahmud Maşaeli
Ending Terror - By Words Alone?	by Steve Wright
Progress Through Piety: Sohbetler (Spiritual Gatherings) of the Women Participants in the Gülen Movement	by Margaret J Rausch
Fethullah Gülen as a Transformational Leader: Exemplar for the "Golden Generation"	by Karen A. Fontenot, Ph.D. & Michael J. Fontenot, Ph.D.