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Discrimination in the Name of Neutrality
In recent years there has been a debate in Germany, as in many other European countries, about how to deal with an increasingly diverse society. One of the most prominent controversies has been the wearing of the headscarf by some Muslim women. Since 2004, half of Germany's 16 states have introduced laws prohibiting public school teachers (and other civil servants in several states) from wearing the headscarf at work. The eight other German states have no such restrictions. Some of the laws banning religious symbols and dress exempt Christian symbols. The bans in Germany are neither necessary nor justified. Where there are concrete concerns that a teacher's conduct breaches the duty to ensure that schools remain neutral on questions of religion and ideology, they should be addressed through ordinary disciplinary procedures, on a case-by-case basis. Teachers should be assessed on the basis of their actions, not views imputed to them by virtue of religious dress.
Islamic Religious Education in the Current Discourse
The volume presents the most current empirical research in the field of Islamic religious education. Its findings are an important contribution to the development of theory in Islamic religious education. The contributions address the challenges of Islamic religious education and professionalization research of Islamic religious education teachers and in a plural society.
Educating Religious Education Teachers
International knowledge transfer in religious education (RE) is still a fairly new topic. Many scholars in the field consider this discussion of prime importance for the future of both the academic discipline of religious education and the related school subject RE. This book continues this discussion and specifies it in the direction of teacher education. Its focus is on the challenges that teacher students and their trainers are facing in the light of RE in a pluralized and detraditionalized society. The impact of these challenges on RE research is obvious. However, international exchange of research results for purposes of comparison and mutual enrichment is still rare. This book provides insights that can encourage and facilitate this exchange.
Researching Religious Education: Classroom Processes and Outcomes
The question of how research on structures and outcomes in Religious Education can be carried out successfully is of current interest in many countries. Next to the more traditional historical, analytical and, more recently, international comparative approaches, empirical research in religious education has been able to establish itself as a major approach to this field. Moreover, the contemporary discussion about comparative evaluation in schools has raised a number of questions which also refer to Religious Education. What competences can pupils acquire in this subject? Does Religious Education really support the acquisition and development of the competences aspired? Are there differences...
Forms of Muslim Children’s Spirituality
The empirical study on the broad spectrum of Muslim children in Germany and their relations to God is fundamental for the scientific understanding of the development and formation of their faith. At the same time the findings of this work are also highly relevant for the further development of an academic and empirically based Islamic religious education both in a secular and in a highly individualized society. The aim of this book is to provide a framework for the life of young believers in a religiously plural society, in which the individual relationship to God and the reflexivity of one's own religion are a decisive prerequisite for preventing radicalization and moral rigidity. This book favors an anthropological shift and an approach that takes the potential of children with their theology and their search for the meaning of life seriously.
Improving Religious Education Through Teacher Training
This book brings together two topics which have both been of increasing interest in different countries. The first refers to the quality of Religious Education as a school subject (RE) in general, the second is about the education of teachers of RE and its possible contribution to better quality RE. There have been many public, and often controversial, debates concerning both of these topics. The chapters contained in this volume, however, are not meant to continue such debates (even if it is inevitable that they will contribute to these debates as well), but to make use of research, especially research on teacher education in the field of RE, in order to provide insights based not just on political or personal opinions, but on rigorous academic scholarship.
Sexuality, Gender And Religion In Contemporary Discourses
One of the most current issues occupying both public and academic discourse is sexuality and the related issues of sexual self-determination, gender order, and homophobia. Religion has a significant role to play in this discourse. This centrality of religion is evident not only in the question of moral concepts, but also in questions of the understanding of the body and gender. In this context, it should be emphasized that religion - or, more precisely, a particular interpretation of the religious - can have both a conflict-promoting and an emancipatory effect. If one wants to conceptualize a contemporary theological understanding, then it is necessary to receive medical, psychological as well as social and cultural science research. The anthology aims to thematize these debates and to broaden the view for the multi-layered processes of change taking place in the discourses.
Dialogisch – kooperativ – elementarisiert
Dieses Buch ist an der Zeit! Ähnlich wie vor einigen Jahrzehnten erste religionspädagogische Lehrbücher nicht mehr allein aus evangelischer oder katholischer Perspektive vorgelegt werden konnten, sondern aus einer ökumenischen Zusammenarbeit heraus, so ist es jetzt sinnvoll, mit einer interreligiösen Einführung einen weiteren Schritt zu wagen. Ziel des Bandes ist eine dialogische Einführung in die Religionsdidaktik, die in der Darstellung selbst den beiden Leitprinzipien der Elementarisierung und des dialogischen Lernens folgt. Das bedeutet, dass jedes Thema aus christlicher und islamischer Perspektive aufgenommen wird. Zusätzlich wird immer auch gesagt, was dabei vielleicht für die...
Handbuch Islamische Religionspädagogik
Das vorliegende Handbuch ist eine Kompilation von Beiträgen überwiegend muslimischer Religionspädagog*innen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum, die aktiv am Aufbau der islamischen Religionspädagogik an den deutschsprachigen Universitäten beteiligt sind bzw. waren und diese Pionieraufgabe an den verschiedenen Standorten unter nicht immer einfachen Verhältnissen übernommen haben. Somit spiegelt der Band auch die Lernprozesse wider, die die Autor*innen während der Etablierungsphasen an europäischen Universitäten durchlaufen haben. Das Buch ist eine Einführung in die islamische Religionspädagogik und damit eine sinnvolle Handreichung für Lehrkräfte, Studierende und universitäre Einric...
