Data Session: 26th February, Jean Marie Nau: Exploring Openings in Baháʼí Consultation
February 26 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm GMT
DARG will run at 13:00-14:30 UK time as a hybrid data session:
Room SCH1:21 (Schofield Building Building, Loughborough)
Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcOqgrjgiHtTW1buxXxCdo2SK5iFfK3iV (NB: we are now collecting some basic information on who comes to DARG)
Session details:
Participants with experience in the principles of Baháʼí consultation apply them in various settings.
Bahá’í consultation is a form of collective decision-making that emphasizes unity, detachment from personal opinions, and the shared search for truth. It involves open and respectful dialogue, where individuals contribute their perspectives without insisting on their own views, and the group strives to reach consensus through mutual understanding. A distinctive feature of many Bahá’í consultations is that they begin with a period of prayer, creating a reflective and unified atmosphere before deliberation begins.
In this session, we will examine one or two openings of Baháʼí consultations to explore how they are framed by the interactants.
The data is drawn from a corpus of recorded Baháʼí consultations, part of the PhD research of Jean-Marie Nau (Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg), supervised by Assoc. Prof. Patrick Sunnen. This research investigates the question:
“How are principles of unity & collective inquiry interactionally accomplished in Baháʼí consultations, and what do these reveal about the wider applicability of this consultation model in diverse settings?”
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