F. Gülen Experience as a Model and Interfaith Harmony

Global Perspectives on the religious,cultural and societal diversity in the Balkans
25-26 March 2011
Tirana, Alabanie

The Albanian Ministry of Culture, University of Tirana Albania, University of Fatih Turkey, Prizmi Dialog Center are organizing an international symposium on a view of religious, cultural and social diversity in Balkans by global perspective, the global experience of Fethullah Gulen and interfaith harmony in Albania.


 



Symposium Themes



The following themes suggest the range of possible issues that authors are invited to address. These are neither definitive nor exhaustive:
* Religious tolerance in Albania as the value of modern civilization
* Historical overview of religious tolerance in Albania
* Balkan’s tolerance experience and religious and cultural dialogue
* Gülen’s view on the role of education of values
* Gülen’s view on the accept of another and human coexistence
* Gülen’s view on moral values versus consumption
* Gülen’s view on the family as a value unit 
* Gülen’s view on interfaith dialogue as a factor for peace
* Intercultural dialogue as a bridge of cooperation and solidarity
* Gülen’s view on facing the challenges of globalization 
* Philosophical Basis and humanistic thought of Gülen in philosophical and humanistic traditions
* Gülen’s view on freedom of conscience as a factor of intercultural dialogue

The Editorial Board is especially interested to the contributions regarding the following topics:



* Parallel between Balkan and Albanian experience on perspective of Gülen’s thought
* Religious and intercultural dialogue in the context of globalization
* Individual, spiritual world in front of local and global developments in the opinion of Gülen
* Humanism, education, family in front of modernity and global crisis
* Albanian Experience
* Dialogue Experience in the Balkans
* Education
* Art of Coexistence
* Family and Education
* Spirituality and Morality 
* Interreligious, Intercultural and Intercivilization Dialogue
* Religious and Social Dialogue as a Project of Civilization 
* Call of Dialogue on the Front of Modernity and Global Crisis
* Globalization: Opportunities and Challenges
* Universal Footprints of Gülen; Conceptual, Philosophical and Human Basis