Liza Dumovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 876448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liza Dumovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liza |
| FAMILY NAME | Dumovich |
| SIGNATURE | DUMOVICH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9804-7234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Devotion, adaptability, contradiction: Introduction to ethnographies of Fethullah Gülen’s followers in the aftermath of Turkey’s failed coup
The Islamic revivalist project advanced by the followers of the Turkish preacher, Fethullah Gülen, has always been characterized by an aspiration to serve God in accordance with the norms and sensitivities of different social, political and cultural contexts. The potentials and limits of such adaptability were put to the test in the tumultuous period preceding Turkey’s deadly 2016 failed coup and during its dramatic aftermath, when many of Gülen’…
Reasoned emotions: Fethullah Gülen’s charisma between rationality and transcendence
This article explores the complex interplay between emotion and rationality in the charismatic relationship between Fethullah Gülen and his followers. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Hizmet community in various cultural contexts, particularly in Gülen’s compound in Pennsylvania, the study analyzes followers’ emotional dispositions and how they articulate their affective attachment to their charismatic leader. The article demo…
Becoming an Abla: Homemaking and the Shaping of an Ethical Self among Women in a Turkish Muslim Community in Brazil
This article analyses the performance of homemaking and religious practices of six Turkish Muslim women who made hicret (migration) to Brazil, focusing on the domestic space of their shared apartment. Their reasons to migrate combine personal motivations and a sense of responsibility to spread the world view of the Turkish Islamic movement of which they are participants. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I explore their everyday practices in the…
Introduction: Ritual Performance and Religious Identity
Tradition is a multifaceted concept and a term with contested meanings. It is usually understood as an unchanging collection of artefacts passed down from generation to generation, where continuity between past and present is expected and assumed. Scholarly studies, however, have shown that tradition is continuously produced and ‘invented’ in order to cope with the present and to imagine a possible future. The articles in this special issue explo…
Carisma, personificação e revelação contínua: Ampliando o conceito de Islã
Este artigo tem o objetivo de ampliar e pluralizar nossa abordagem do Islã como uma tradição discursiva. Ele formula uma intervenção no debate acadêmico sobre a conceituação do Islã como uma tradição discursiva proposta por Talal Asad. Essa conceituação foi criticada por conter um certo viés sunita em sua noção de ortodoxia, notadamente por Shahab Ahmed e Zeynep Oktay. Esta última, com base em seu trabalho sobre o alevismo, argumentou a favor da …
A home in the hicret: Morality, domestic space and belonging in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil
This article focuses on home-making practices in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil. Following their religious leader's exhortations to make hicret (migration) to spread their worldview and expand their religious movement, committed Muslims decided to emigrate from Turkey to Brazil. Initially enjoying a privileged economic, social, and political situation inside and outside their homeland, community members built an institutional and domestic s…
De artes e efrações: Reflexões Sobre Uma Etnografia Multissiada
A construção do sujeito moral no Movimento Gülen se realiza por meio da corporificação de disposições morais, cognitivas e afetivas informadas pelos princípios da tradição islâmica conforme a interpretação do seu líder religioso. A performance de um programa disciplinar composto por práticas rituais islâmicas e "islamizadas" requer e, ao mesmo tempo, produz uma base material e moral que se reproduz pelo espaço do exílio. A relação intrínseca entr…
De homens e pombos: Liquefazendo gênero em Chatila, Líbano
The Best of Hard Times, fruto da pesquisa de doutorado de Gustavo Barbosa entre os moradores de Chatila, um campo de refugiados palestinos em Beirute, é uma análise etnográfica da construção da masculinidade entre os shabab (rapazes) do campo. Com leveza e humor, o autor usa a metáfora da água para construir a sua etnografia e tornar inteligível a realidade local; com uma sensibilidade lírica, ele constrói uma conexão entre os shabab e o leitor. …
Revelações do self: Uma autoetnografia a partir do Hajj
Travel as hicret: (Re)Framing Experiences of Exile in the Gülen Community in Brazil
This article analyzes how members of the Gülen community in Brazil have mobilized the Islamic tradition in order to make reason of critical changes in their lives, since July 2016 failed coup in Turkey. This community is part of the Gülen Movement, a transnational Turkish Islamic network that operates mainly through educational and cultural activities. The Movement's charismatic religious leader, Fethullah Gülen, was held responsible for the fail…
Pious Creativity: Negotiating Hizmet in South America After July 2016
This article focuses on the social dynamics of the Gülen Movement in Brazil, showing how participants negotiate their mission of hizmet in the changing circumstances after the 15 July coup. In Brazil, as in other countries in South America, community building and social action carried out by followers of Fethullah Gülen have been enabled by what I call ‘pious creativity’, an ‘agentival capacity’ for engaging in alternative forms of action. This c…
Nationalisme religieux et ethnicité: La formation identitaire de la communauté Hizmet au Brésil
Hizmet est un mouvement turc islamique transnational, de caractère missionnaire, conduit par le chef religieux charismatique Fethullah Gülen. Il existe dans environ 140 pays en tant qu’élément d’un projet civilisationnel de réforme morale de la société globale. Cet article présente la communauté Hizmet au Brésil (établie en 2004) et analyse la construction de son identité en montrant comment l’ethnicité turque et le nationalisme religieux s’artic…
A home in the hicret: Morality, domestic space and belonging in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil
This article focuses on home-making practices in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil. Following their religious leader's exhortations to make hicret (migration) to spread their worldview and expand their religious movement, committed Muslims decided to emigrate from Turkey to Brazil. Initially enjoying a privileged economic, social, and political situation inside and outside their homeland, community members built an institutional and domestic s…
Pious Creativity: Negotiating Hizmet in South America After July 2016
This article focuses on the social dynamics of the Gülen Movement in Brazil, showing how participants negotiate their mission of hizmet in the changing circumstances after the 15 July coup. In Brazil, as in other countries in South America, community building and social action carried out by followers of Fethullah Gülen have been enabled by what I call ‘pious creativity’, an ‘agentival capacity’ for engaging in alternative forms of action. This c…
Travel as hicret: (Re)Framing Experiences of Exile in the Gülen Community in Brazil
This article analyzes how members of the Gülen community in Brazil have mobilized the Islamic tradition in order to make reason of critical changes in their lives, since July 2016 failed coup in Turkey. This community is part of the Gülen Movement, a transnational Turkish Islamic network that operates mainly through educational and cultural activities. The Movement's charismatic religious leader, Fethullah Gülen, was held responsible for the fail…
Becoming an Abla: Homemaking and the Shaping of an Ethical Self among Women in a Turkish Muslim Community in Brazil
This article analyses the performance of homemaking and religious practices of six Turkish Muslim women who made hicret (migration) to Brazil, focusing on the domestic space of their shared apartment. Their reasons to migrate combine personal motivations and a sense of responsibility to spread the world view of the Turkish Islamic movement of which they are participants. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I explore their everyday practices in the…
Pious Creativity: Negotiating Hizmet in South America After July 2016
This article focuses on the social dynamics of the Gülen Movement in Brazil, showing how participants negotiate their mission of hizmet in the changing circumstances after the 15 July coup. In Brazil, as in other countries in South America, community building and social action carried out by followers of Fethullah Gülen have been enabled by what I call ‘pious creativity’, an ‘agentival capacity’ for engaging in alternative forms of action. This c…
Nationalisme religieux et ethnicité: La formation identitaire de la communauté Hizmet au Brésil
Hizmet est un mouvement turc islamique transnational, de caractère missionnaire, conduit par le chef religieux charismatique Fethullah Gülen. Il existe dans environ 140 pays en tant qu’élément d’un projet civilisationnel de réforme morale de la société globale. Cet article présente la communauté Hizmet au Brésil (établie en 2004) et analyse la construction de son identité en montrant comment l’ethnicité turque et le nationalisme religieux s’artic…
Travel as hicret: (Re)Framing Experiences of Exile in the Gülen Community in Brazil
This article analyzes how members of the Gülen community in Brazil have mobilized the Islamic tradition in order to make reason of critical changes in their lives, since July 2016 failed coup in Turkey. This community is part of the Gülen Movement, a transnational Turkish Islamic network that operates mainly through educational and cultural activities. The Movement's charismatic religious leader, Fethullah Gülen, was held responsible for the fail…
Revelações do self: Uma autoetnografia a partir do Hajj
De homens e pombos: Liquefazendo gênero em Chatila, Líbano
The Best of Hard Times, fruto da pesquisa de doutorado de Gustavo Barbosa entre os moradores de Chatila, um campo de refugiados palestinos em Beirute, é uma análise etnográfica da construção da masculinidade entre os shabab (rapazes) do campo. Com leveza e humor, o autor usa a metáfora da água para construir a sua etnografia e tornar inteligível a realidade local; com uma sensibilidade lírica, ele constrói uma conexão entre os shabab e o leitor. …
De artes e efrações: Reflexões Sobre Uma Etnografia Multissiada
A construção do sujeito moral no Movimento Gülen se realiza por meio da corporificação de disposições morais, cognitivas e afetivas informadas pelos princípios da tradição islâmica conforme a interpretação do seu líder religioso. A performance de um programa disciplinar composto por práticas rituais islâmicas e "islamizadas" requer e, ao mesmo tempo, produz uma base material e moral que se reproduz pelo espaço do exílio. A relação intrínseca entr…
Becoming an Abla: Homemaking and the Shaping of an Ethical Self among Women in a Turkish Muslim Community in Brazil
This article analyses the performance of homemaking and religious practices of six Turkish Muslim women who made hicret (migration) to Brazil, focusing on the domestic space of their shared apartment. Their reasons to migrate combine personal motivations and a sense of responsibility to spread the world view of the Turkish Islamic movement of which they are participants. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, I explore their everyday practices in the…
Introduction: Ritual Performance and Religious Identity
Tradition is a multifaceted concept and a term with contested meanings. It is usually understood as an unchanging collection of artefacts passed down from generation to generation, where continuity between past and present is expected and assumed. Scholarly studies, however, have shown that tradition is continuously produced and ‘invented’ in order to cope with the present and to imagine a possible future. The articles in this special issue explo…
Carisma, personificação e revelação contínua: Ampliando o conceito de Islã
Este artigo tem o objetivo de ampliar e pluralizar nossa abordagem do Islã como uma tradição discursiva. Ele formula uma intervenção no debate acadêmico sobre a conceituação do Islã como uma tradição discursiva proposta por Talal Asad. Essa conceituação foi criticada por conter um certo viés sunita em sua noção de ortodoxia, notadamente por Shahab Ahmed e Zeynep Oktay. Esta última, com base em seu trabalho sobre o alevismo, argumentou a favor da …
A home in the hicret: Morality, domestic space and belonging in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil
This article focuses on home-making practices in a Turkish Muslim community in Brazil. Following their religious leader's exhortations to make hicret (migration) to spread their worldview and expand their religious movement, committed Muslims decided to emigrate from Turkey to Brazil. Initially enjoying a privileged economic, social, and political situation inside and outside their homeland, community members built an institutional and domestic s…
Reasoned emotions: Fethullah Gülen’s charisma between rationality and transcendence
This article explores the complex interplay between emotion and rationality in the charismatic relationship between Fethullah Gülen and his followers. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Hizmet community in various cultural contexts, particularly in Gülen’s compound in Pennsylvania, the study analyzes followers’ emotional dispositions and how they articulate their affective attachment to their charismatic leader. The article demo…
Devotion, adaptability, contradiction: Introduction to ethnographies of Fethullah Gülen’s followers in the aftermath of Turkey’s failed coup
The Islamic revivalist project advanced by the followers of the Turkish preacher, Fethullah Gülen, has always been characterized by an aspiration to serve God in accordance with the norms and sensitivities of different social, political and cultural contexts. The potentials and limits of such adaptability were put to the test in the tumultuous period preceding Turkey’s deadly 2016 failed coup and during its dramatic aftermath, when many of Gülen’…
Sociology (6 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works)