- Authors: Heri Setyawan
Abstract:
The binary opposition between modernity and religion is usually discussed. However, in last decades the growing of religious movements surprisingly does not eliminate modernity. This paper attempts to examine the rise of modernity and religion, namely in the Gulen Movement, an Islamic transnational movement from Turkey, inspired by Fethullah Gulen, a prominant public figure from Turkey. The rise of the Gulen Movement in Turkey is a result of discourse identity which synthesizes several social issues: secularism, Islamic identity, and political power. One of the results from the discourse identity in the Gulen Movement is the familiarly of the Gulen Movement to science and Islamic values. The rapidly growing of educational services called the Gulen Inspired Schools which spread throughout more than 120 countries seeks to educate students in highly standard in science and values. In Indonesia there are 10 high schools and several educational services. The Gulen Inspired Schools try to educate students in science and values. It results a discourse identity between being modern and Islamic which is called to promote a “pious science” to show that on the one hand, every person is growing in values based on Islamic values but on the other hand every person is also fully growing in science, learning and implementing science in daily life. Based on those two qualities a person is understood could give much contribution for humanity.
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