{"id":209354,"date":"2022-02-17T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T17:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=209354"},"modified":"2022-02-17T12:50:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T17:50:06","slug":"webinar-ideas-religion-and-social-change-insights-from-the-bahai-communitys-75-year-engagement-with-the-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2022\/02\/17\/webinar-ideas-religion-and-social-change-insights-from-the-bahai-communitys-75-year-engagement-with-the-united-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: Ideas, Religion, and Social Change: Insights from the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed  Community&#8217;s 75-year engagement with the United Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This talk is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~bergerju\">Dr. Berger&#8217;s<\/a> publication: <em>Rethinking Politics and Religion in a Plural World: The Baha&#8217;i International Community and the United Nations<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2021). In this <a href=\"https:\/\/wilmetteinstitute.org\/ideas-approaches-and-social-change\/\">webinar<\/a>, Dr. Berger traces the experience of a community whose ideas about social order and the mechanisms of social change are refashioning familiar notions of politics as well as religion. Focusing on the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed International Community (BIC), an international non-governmental organization (NGO) which represents the worldwide Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed community in global fora\u2014most notably, at the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Berger explores a distinctive example of an approach to social change that goes beyond the divisive, antagonistic modes that tend to characterize political processes\u2013one that lays the foundations for new patterns of relationships among individuals, communities, and governing institutions\u2014patterns attuned to the needs of an evolving, interdependent global community. The lecture focuses on several elements of a framework that shapes the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed approach to politics, including a developmental view of history, and the principle of the oneness of humanity, and further, examines the role of the Baha&#8217;i system of governance in shaping the BIC\u2019s engagement with the international community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wilmetteinstitute.org\/ideas-approaches-and-social-change\/\">Watch the webinar here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com\/viewer\/60083638e21b8400014cc02b\">Link to the book<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This talk is based on Dr. Berger&#8217;s publication: Rethinking Politics and Religion in a Plural World: The Baha&#8217;i International Community and the United Nations (Bloomsbury, 2021). In this webinar, Dr. Berger traces the experience of a community whose ideas about social order and the mechanisms of social change are refashioning familiar notions of politics as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":209359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-282_religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209415,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209354\/revisions\/209415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}