Martin E. Marty's Hizmet Means Service: Perspectives on an Alternative Path PDF

By Martin E. Marty

Hizmet skill Service examines Hizmet, a Turkey-based yet international flow devoted to human provider. encouraged by means of Fethullah Gülen, a Sufi Muslim mystic, student, and preacher, it truly is a world undertaking keen on schooling, company, interfaith discussion, technology, and efforts to advertise tolerance and knowing. certainly one of Hizmet’s major tenets is that non secular believers can carry profound ideals and devote spiritually encouraged acts of provider with out discriminating opposed to or alienating humans of alternative faiths. while a ruling celebration in Turkey has got down to undercut the stream, its overseas impression keeps to develop and allure fans who're dedicated to service.

the students whose paintings looks during this e-book symbolize a number of disciplines, faiths, and international locations and provide quite a lot of narratives, analyses, and evaluations. This identify strikes past mere creation, reading Hizmet and the manifestations of this interfaith movement.

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