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What elements shape the identity of the Gülen Movement? The collective identity of the Gülen Movement depends on the way that a multitude of choices, goals, relations, services and representations are held together. It is the outcome of conscious, laborious processes. However, some dimensions of a social movement’s collective identity may be weaker or stronger than others, and some may have secondary or tertiary priority.
What does the Gülen movement stand for? Last week I was invited to speak at a panel organized for the occasion of the publication of Muslim scholar and preacher Fethullah Gülen's new book “Yaşatma İdeali” (The Ideal of Serving Mankind), in which he explains the main principles of the faith-based social movement serving the nation and the mankind he has inspired.
The entire cosmos is a mirror to the divine Everything in this universe is a mirror pointing to God Almighty, like an articulate language telling of Him, and a tune singing His Name. Human beings, things, and the whole of existence always reflects Him and bears witness to Him in their sounds and silences, acts and positions, in their beings and the fruits they yield.
What is “reflexivity” exactly and why is the Gülen Movement described as “reflexive”? An action is said to generate “reflexivity” if it enables individuals, within the limits set at any given moment by the environment to recognize the forces of socialization on them and to alter their place in the social structure.
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