Review: Etga Ugur. Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere: The Gülen Movement and the Mormon Church. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019.

Authors

Jean-François Mayer

Keywords

Gülen movement, Hizmet, Latter-day Saints, political science, religion

Abstract

When I accepted the invitation to review this book, published in a valuable series on Religion and Politics of which I had enjoyed reading several volumes, I assumed that it was a study of interactions between the Gülen movement (also known as Hizmet [service], emphasizing the social service projects for which the movement is well known) and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—something that I found intriguing, since I could not conceive how such a topic might deserve a full volume. I realized my mistake as soon as I started to read it. No sensational revelations about hidden channels and cooperation between two unrelated religious movements, but a comparative study in political science by Turkish-born Etga Ugur, an assistant professor at the University of Washington Tacoma.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Mayer, Jean-François (2021) "Review: Etga Ugur. Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere: The Gülen Movement and the Mormon Church. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2019.," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 8: No. 1, Article 18.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol8/iss1/18