Intercultural Dialogue Institute Calgary presents a film screening of:

Love is a Verb

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 @ 6:00 PM
Globe Cinema - 617 8 Avenue SW, Calgary
FREE Admssion

6:00 pm - Cocktail reception
7:00 pm - film screening
8:00 pm - Q&A with Loye Ashton

Love Is A Verb is an examination of a social movement that began in Turkey in the l960s and now reaches across the globe. The group is called Hizmet, the Turkish word for service or The Gulen Movement after its inspiration, leader and beloved teacher Fethullah Gulen, a man that Time Magazine named as one of the most influential leaders in the world in 2013.

Dr. Loye Ashton is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the Director of the Center for International Studies and Global Change at Tougaloo. He is the co-founder of the Society of Comparative Theology and also serves as the co-editor of Fordham University Press’s new series, Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions.

Dr. Ashton is currently working on a book-length project about the sources of the opposition to the Gülen/Hizmet interfaith peace movement in Turkey and throughout the Turkish-speaking world. Interviews of his work with the Gülen movement are available on Youtube and many of his interfaith conference presentations have been published in Turkish.

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