Biography
David Tittensor is a Lecturer in Studies of Religion in the School of Huamanities and Social Sciences. He is the the author of The House of Service: The Gülen Movement and Islam's Third Way (Oxford University Press, 2014) and co-author (with Adam Possamai) of Religion and Change in Australia (forthcoming, Routlege, 2021). He has also co-edited (with Prof. Matthew Clarke) Islam and Development: Exploring the Invisible Aid Economy (Ashgate/Routledge, 2014/2016) and (with Fethi Mansouri) The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South (Palgrave, 2017), and is a Series Editor for Muslims in Global Societies (Springer). His research interests are transnational Muslim movements, Turkish politics and society, and religion and development with a focus on Islam.
Read more on David's profileResearch interests
Muslim movements, Turkish politics and society, religion and development, and the Middle East.
Affiliations
Research Affiliate, Centre for Humanitarian Leadership
Conferences
Tittensor, David (forthcoming, 2013) ‘Making Modern Muslims: The Gülen Movement and the Ideal of Altin Nesil’ Inaugural Australasian Conference on Islam, November 25-26 Charles Sturt University, Sydney.
Tittensor, David (2012) ‘Gülen’s Schools and the Changing Nature of Islamic Mission: Exploring the Teacher-Student Dynamic’ MESA Annual Meeting, November 17-20,Denver, Colorado.
Tittensor, David & Michael, Michális (2012) ‘Turkey, Australia and the Middle East Quandary: Looking East, Looking West’ The Oceanic Conference on International Studies, July 18-20, University of Sydney.
Tittensor, David (2011) ‘The Changing Nature of Islamic Mission’. Paper presented at the Islam and Development Roundtable, December 13, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Melbourne.
Tittensor, David (2011) ‘Towards the Fourth Sector: Gülen’s Schools Between Philanthropy and Capitalism.’ Paper presented at ACFID - Universities Linkage Network Conference: An Australian Approach to Development? People, Practice and Policy, December 12-13, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Melbourne.
Tittensor, David & Anderson, Flora (2011) ‘European Identity and Turkey:
Reconstituting the Symbolic Order/Other. Paper presented at the Globalization, Illiberalism, the West and Islam: European and Australian Perspectives Conference, June 16-17 Prato, Italy.
Tittensor, David (2010). ‘An alternative pilgrimage: teachers doing hizmet abroad’.Paper presented at The Significance of Education for the Future: The Gülen Model, October 19-21 State Islamic Univerity of Indonesia
Tittensor, David (2009). ‘The Gülen Movement: Muslim Educational Activism in Turkey and Abroad’. Paper Presented at the PSI Postgraduate Symposium: Connecting Conversations, October 28 , Monash University, Melbourne.
Tittensor, David & Anderson, Flora (2009). ‘Turkey and the EU: Who’s the sick mannow?’ Paper presented at Young Researchers Conference: East and West together: Twenty Years After the Fall of Communism in Europe, September 23 , Monash University, Melbourne.
Tittensor, David (2009). ‘Essentially Evil? Takkiya and the New Muslim Dissemblers?’ Paper presented at the Islamophobia Conference, July 18-19, Monash University, Melbourne.
Tittensor, David (2009). ‘Not Just Talking Heads: The Gülen Movement Translating Rhetoric into Action’ Paper presented at the From Dialogue to Collaboration: the Vision of Fethullah Gulen & Muslim-Christian Relations Conference, 15-16 July, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.
Tittensor, David (2008). ‘Fethullah Gülen’s Schools of Love: A Muslim Model for the Future?’ Paper presented at the Second International Peace Conference, Philosophical Perspectives on Peace: Turkey, Germany & Europe, October 23-26, Technische Universität Berlin.
Tittensor, David (2007). ‘US-Australia Alliance: asymmetry breeds symmetry’. Paper presented at the Australia in the Middle East & Central Asia: Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan Workshop, November 21-22, Australian National University, Canberra.
Professional activities
Series Editor, Muslims in Global Societies (Springer)
Steering Committee, International Development and Religion Unit, American Academy of Religion
Awards
2008 Endeavour Award for Turkey ($50,000)
Publications
Islam, Muslims, and philanthropy in Australia
David Tittensor
(2023), pp. 324-344, Philanthropy in the Muslim World, Cheltenham, Eng., B1
D Tittensor, M Clarke
(2022), Vol. 112, pp. 167-187, Muslim World, London, Eng., C1
D Tittensor
(2020), Vol. 51, pp. 74-89, Religion, C1-1
David Tittensor, Gerhard Hoffstaedter, Adam Possamai
(2020), Vol. 40, pp. 480-496, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Secrecy and hierarchy within the Gülen movement and the question of academic responsibility
D Tittensor
(2018), pp. 217-236, Turkey's July 15th coup: what happened and why, Salt Lake City, Utah, B1
Understanding Islamic aid flows to enhance global humanitarian assistance
D Tittensor, M Clarke, T Gümüş
(2018), Vol. 12, pp. 193-210, Contemporary Islam, C1
The Gülen movement and surviving in exile: the case of Australia
D Tittensor
(2018), Vol. 19, pp. 123-138, Politics, religion and ideology, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
The feminisation of migration? A critical overview
D Tittensor, F Mansouri
(2017), pp. 11-25, The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South, London, Eng., B1
The politics of women and migration in the global South
D Tittensor, F Mansouri
(2017), London, Eng., A7
Doing political ethnography in a difficult climate: A Turkish case study
D Tittensor
(2016), Vol. 17, pp. 213-228, Ethnography, C1-1
Islam and Development: Exploring the Invisible Aid Economy
M Clarke, D Tittensor
(2016), London, Eng., A7
Islam's Modern Day Ibn Battutas: Gülen teachers journeying towards the divine
D Tittensor
(2015), Vol. 42, pp. 163-178, British journal of Middle Eastern studies, London, Eng., C1
The house of service : the Gülen movement and Islam's third way
David Tittensor
(2014), Oxford, Eng., A1-1
Introduction: The invisible aid sector
D Tittensor, M Clarke
(2014), pp. 1-11, Islam and development: Exploring the invisible aid economy, Farnham, Eng., B1
The changing nature of Islamic mission: The cases of Tablighi Jama'at and the Gülen movement
D Tittensor
(2014), pp. 33-50, Islam and development: Exploring the invisible aid economy, Farnham, Eng., B1
Conclusion: Invisible aid: Islam, Muslim NGOs and development
M Clarke, G Hoffstaedter, D Tittensor
(2014), pp. 197-205, Islam and development : exploring the invisible aid economy, Farnham, Eng., B1
Religion and development: prospects and pitfalls of faith-based organizations
G Hoffstaedter, D Tittensor
(2013), pp. 402-412, Handbook of research on development and religion, Cheltenham, England, B1-1
The Gülen movement and the case of a secret agenda: putting the debate in perspective
D Tittensor
(2012), Vol. 23, pp. 163-179, Islam and Christian - Muslim Relations, Oxford, UK, C1-1
Fethullah Gülen's schools of love: a Muslim model for the future?
D Tittensor
(2010), pp. 220-232, Concerning peace: new perspectives on utopia, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, B1-1
Social capital and public policy - the current challenge facing the Victorian Government
D Tittensor
(2007), Vol. 66, pp. 512-518, Australian journal of public administration, Melbourne, Vic, C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Public Sector Funding
Round Table - Democratic Transition in Tunisia and the Role of Civil Society
Prof Fethi Mansouri, Dr David Tittensor
DFAT Council for Australian-Arab Relations - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- 2015: $30,800
Democracy and Local Governance in Tunisia: Australian and Indonesian Perspectives
Prof Fethi Mansouri, Prof Greg Barton, Dr David Tittensor
DFAT Council for Australian-Arab Relations - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- 2016: $50,000
Revitalising Multiculturalism via Deliberative Interventions
Prof Fethi Mansouri, Dr David Tittensor
Social Cohesion Research Grants
- 2017: $21,000
- 2016: $49,000
Supervisions
Tezcan Gumus
Thesis entitled: Turkey's failure to consolidate democracy and the role of political leaders
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Raden Yasin
Thesis entitled: The attitude of PKS on the implementation of Sharia in democratic Indonesia.
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences