Bahá’í Participation in the Public Sphere: History, Concepts, and Approaches
Channel: Association for Bahá’í Studies
Date: 2022-09-21

Shahriar Razavi - 2015 ABS Conference
The talk briefly surveys the history of the presentation of Bahá’í thought in the public sphere, bearing on the betterment of the world. A common overarching conceptual framework guides the various endeavors of the community in terms of both method and content. This presentation seeks to explore how that framework finds expression through Bahá’í participation in the discourses of society. A further area of exploration will be the distinctive nature of the contribution of each of the Plan’s three protagonists—the individual, the community, and the institutions—to involvement in public discourse.