Gülen Conference

November 4, 2010, Philadelphia, PA

September 01, 2010

Abstract submission deadline

September 15, 2010

Decision to accept/reject abstracts

November 01, 2010

Article submission deadline

November 04, 2010

Conference

January 1, 2011

The revision of selected articles for publication 

Making Peace In and With the World: The Role of the Gülen Movement in the Task of Eco-Justice

Objective:

With a case of Gülen’s thought and the Gülen Movement, the conference aims to explore two dimensions of peace in humanity. First, making peace between differing human communities, and second, making peace between the human community and the living and limited world that embraces us and makes our life possible. The phrase “eco-justice” states this dual reality, as global economic justice must go hand in hand with global ecological justice if “peace” is to be made.

Muhammad Fethullah Gülen (b. 1941), a Turkish thinker and one of the most significant Islamic theologians in contemporary world, and the Gülen movement, the fastest growing Islamic civic movement to the globe, will be the subject of case study. A recent survey, The 500 Most Influential Muslims, signifies Gülen as one of the top 50 influential Muslims today and the movement as a global Islamic network. It further remarks Gülen to be among whom “affect huge swathes of humanity,” and “has gone on to become a global phenomenon in his own right.” Taking this figure and his movement, this present conference will shed light on a new dimension of peace.