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This is a book about Fethullah GA1/4len, a Turkish scholar and preacher, and the movement that he inspired in Turkey and ultimately throughout the world. During the decades of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, he preached to large crowds in mosques and public places throughout Turkey and wrote hundreds of newspaper columns, articles and books espousing his ideas. Gradually, many Turks from all walks of life responded to his ideas of education, modernization, positive relationships with the West and interfaith dialog by establishing dormitories, university preparatory courses and schools in which qu

AbstractThe fact that recent immigrants to the United States continue to participate in the daily life of the society from which they emigrate is true for religious identities and behaviours as well as in political, economic and family life. This paper describes transnational religious ties between immigrants in six American religious congregations; and family, friends and co-religionists in the home country. In addition to monetary exchanges that benefit religious purposes, there are also exchanges of norms, practices, and social capital. The varied pathways whereby remittances are exchanged are also described. The religious exchanges between home and host countries impact global religious systems.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Religious Orders: Old and New -- 2. Sociological Perspectives -- 3. Declining Membership in Religious Orders -- 4. Education and the Exodus -- 5. Why the Exodus from Religious Orders -- 6. Convents: Reflections on Their Present and Future -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography