Baha'i law
Date
2021-11-02
Authors
Danesh, Roshan
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Abstract
The presentation provides a broad overview of Baha'i law in its historical, cultural, social, religious, political, and legal contexts. This includes situating Baha'i law within processes and discourses of social change and legal revitalization within Islamic societies, including responses to modernity, colonization, and justice movements. Particular attention is paid to how Baha'i law explicitly conceptualizes the application and enforcement of law as contingent on the existence of particular inner (spiritual) and outer (social) conditions, thus creating a Baha'i legal imagination and culture that is highly diverse, dynamic, and fluid.
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This is the sixth event of the Comparative Law Series
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Baha'i law, comparative law, legal system, Baha'i legal imagination, religion