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Sponsors: Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University Santa Monica College International Education Center Department of Religious Studies at Humboldt State University Pacifica Institute
Editorial Board: Dean Varun Soni - University of Southern California Prof. Juan Campo - UC Santa Barbara Prof. Reza Aslan - UC Riverside Prof. Jill Carroll - Rice University Prof. Darryl Tippens - Pepperdine University Prof. Reuven Firestone - Hebrew Union College Prof. Marcia Hermansen - Loyola University of Chicago Prof. William Martin - Rice University Prof. Paul Weller - University of Derby, UK Prof. Helen Rose Ebaugh - University of Houston Prof. Amir Hussain - Loyola Marymount University Prof. Andrew Achenbaum - University of Houston Prof. Daniel Skubik - California Baptist University Prof. Jon Paulien - Loma Linda University Prof. John Olsen - University of Arizona Prof. David Capes - Houston Baptist University Prof. Marilyn Gottschall - Whittier College Prof. Richard Penaskovic - Auburn University Prof. Thomas Burns - University of Oklahoma Prof. Alan Godlas - University of Georgia Prof. Lynn Mitchell - University of Houston Prof. Tom Gage - Humboldt State University
Dear Sir/Madam, We are pleased to announce the International Conference on East and West Encounters: The Gülen Movement, to be held on December 4-6, 2009 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. This conference follows a series of very successful conferences on the Gülen movement that are held at Georgetown University (2008), House of Lords & London School of Economics (2007), University of Oklahoma (2006) and Rice University (2005). During the past several years, over 300 academics like yourself around the world studied and presented on the impact of Gülen 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 Gülen movement with the title "East and West Encounters: The Gülen Movement" on December 4-6, 2009 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. Please note that the abstract deadline for presentations is July 15, 2009.
Topics include: • Impact of Gülen movement in the encounter between East and West • Democracy and dialogue: Gülen's contributions • Gülen inspired educational institutions • Structure, development and finance in the Gülen movement • Women and gender roles in the Gülen movement • Humanistic vision of Gülen • Gülen's contributions to Islamic theology • Gülen's impact on the youth
The Editorial Board is especially interested to the contributions regarding the following topics: • Contributions of the Gülen movement to the dialogue between East and West • Gülen’s view of the challenges facing Muslim citizens in the western democracies • Gülen’s view on Zimmi’s: status of non-Muslims in the Muslim world • Violence in the name of God: Gülen’s fight with violence • Gülen’s view of the clash of civilizations • Gülen’s view on Islamic theocracies • Gülen’s perspective on Muslim and non-Muslim thinkers and philosophers • Gülen’s understanding of humanism • Social sciences and arts in Gülen inspired schools • The impact of the Environment and Energy Olympiads by Gülen inspired schools and organizations • Educational transformation of African youth by Gülen inspired schools • Character education in Gülen inspired schools • Recruitment and fundraising in the Gülen movement • Gülen’s role in the movement • Post-Gülen survival of the Gülen Movement • Advantages and disadvantages of the lack of central coordination in the Gülen movement • Is a Gülen inspired insurance company, Işık Sigorta, a new concept in modern Islamic finance? • Mobilization of the young generation by Gülen’s ideals • Gülen’s views on women rights • Gülen’s view on roles and rights of the family members • Gülen’s view on inheritance, equality and divorce
rights of Muslim women
The authors should submit an abstract (approximately 250 words) and
biography (approximately 150 words) at the conference website by July
15, 2009. The editorial committee will review the abstracts and respond
by July 31, 2009. The selected authors should then submit
papers of minimum 3000 and maximum 6000 words to the editorial board
by September 20, 2009. Electronic submission via the conference
web page is preferred. Authors who choose to submit hard copies are
responsible for the timely delivery of their submissions by the same
deadlines. The editorial board will evaluate and ask the authors to revise
the papers (if needed) and resubmit camera ready copies by November
1, 2009. The conference organizers reserve the right to remove from the
proposed program papers not received by the published deadlines or that
fail to respond to the comments of the editorial board. The accepted papers
will be published at the conference webpage and as conference proceedings.
The coverage of the conference will be publicized on the conference web
page: www.gulenconference.net.
Regards,
Dr. Jeff Yavuz This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Invitation to a conference on "East and West
Encounters: The Gülen Movement"