"The Gulen Movement: A Sociological Analysis of a Civic Movement" by Prof. Helen Rose Ebaugh"
In partnership with the Atlantic Institute
Free and Open to the Public. Snacks and Coffee will be served
Please register for helping us in arranging the logistics.
Prof. Ebaugh's book on Gulen movement will be available for purchase for $10
Where: Istanbul Center Alpharetta Branch
223 Roswell Street,
Alpharetta, GA, 30009
(Note for navigation: #223 building inside the office buildings complex South of the Alpharetta community center)
When: Monday, March 11, 2013
7:00 pm -7:30pm Reception
7:30 pm -9:00pm Lecture and Q&A
9:00 pm- 9:30 pm Book Signing and Program Ends
Who: Professor ,Helen Rose Ebaugh
Education
Ph.D. Columbia University
M.A. University of Texas
B.A. Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio
Biography
Professor Ebaugh received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 1975 with specialties in Organizational Sociology and the Sociology of Religion. In addition to five books, she has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including The American Sociological Review, Social Forces, the Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Sociological Analysis and The Journal For The Scientific Study of Religion.
Dr. Ebaugh served as president of the National Association for the Sociology of Religion, helped organize and served as the first chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on the Sociology of Religion and is past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Ebaugh received two consecutive research grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts to study religion and the new immigrants in the United States. The results from the first grant that focused on the role of religious congregations in the incorporation of new immigrants is described in Religion and the New Immigrants: Adaptations and Continuities in New Immigrant Congrations (AltaMira Press, 2000). The second book from the project, Religion Across Borders: Transnational Religious Networks (AltaMira Press,s 2002) is an analysis of the impact of religious ties among immigrants in the United States and family/friends in their home countries.
With a major grant from the Lilly Endowment, Dr. Ebaugh studied inter-faith coalitions and their provision of social services. In addition to a national survey of these coalitions, she and her research team conducted fieldwork in 10-12 coalitions across the country, with focus upon the inter-relationships between coalitions and the religious congregations with which they partner in their joint effort to provide social services to the needy. Most recently (2009) Dr. Ebaugh published a book on the Gulen Movement, a transnational moderate Islamic movement devoted to education and interfaith dialog. Her next project will trace the growth of the movement worldwide. She routinely teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the Sociology of Religion and the study of World Religions.
Research Interests
Religion and the new immigrants
Faith-Based Social Service Coalitions
Role exit theory
Selected Publications
Ebaugh, H. R. 2009. The Gulen Movement: A Sociological Analysis of a Civic Movement Rooted in Moderte Islam. Springer Press.
H.R. Ebaugh and Janet S. Chafetz. Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000.
H.R.Ebaugh and Janet S. Chafetz. Religion Across Borders: Transnational Religious Networks. AltaMira Press, 2002
H.R. Ebaugh and Janet S. Chafetz. "Agents for Cultural Reproduction and Structural Change: The Ironic Role of Women in Immigrant Religious Institutions,"Social Forces, Vol. 78, No. 2, December, 1999, pp. 585-613.
Yang, Fenggang and H.R. Ebaugh. "Transformations in New Immigrant Religions and Their Global Implications," American Sociological Review, Vol. 66, 2001: 269-288.
Yang, Fenggang and H.R. Ebaugh. "Religion and Ethnicity: The Impact of Majority/Minority Status in the Home and Host Countries," The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 40 (3) 2001: 367-378.
Ebaugh, H.R., J.S. Chafetz, and P.F. Pipes.2005. "Faith-Based Social Service Organizations and Government Funding." Social Science Quarterly 86:273-292.
Ebaugh, H.R., J.S. Chafetz and P.F. Pipes. 2005. "Funding Good Works: Funding Sources of Faith-Based Social Service Coalitions." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. 34: 448-472.
Ebaugh, H.R., J.S. Chafetz and P.F. Pipes. 2006. "Where's the Faith in Faith-Based Organizations? Measures and Correlates of Religiosity in Faith-Based Social Service Coalitions." Social Forces 84:2259-2272.
Ebaugh, H.R., J.S. Chafetz and P.F. Pipes. 2006. "The Influence of Evangelicalism on Government Funding of Faith-Based Social Service Coalitions." Review of Religious Research 47:380-392.
Affiliations
American Sociological Association
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
Religious Research Association
Association for the Sociology of Religion
International Sociological Association