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Burrichter, Rita; Langenhorst, Georg; Stosch, Klaus von

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“…In practice, there have been several attempts to try out this model of interreligious learning, but reflection and empirical evidence on this are still lacking. In the United States, a collection of essays on CT in a campus setting of RE was published (Brecht and Lockling 2016) and in Germany, the first reflections were collected in a book on CT and RE in primary and secondary education (Burrichter et al 2015) and in further separate contributions on the theme (e.g., Sass 2014). The doctoral research of Vaughan (2015) in the US and that of Welling in Germany (Welling 2020b) looked deeper into the didactic possibilities of the method of "scriptural reasoning" as a specific text-based form of CT.…”

Section: Religious Education and Comparative Theology: Creating Commo...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Religious Education and Comparative Theology: Creating Common Ground for Intercultural Encounters

Roebben

Stosch

2022

Religions

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In this paper, a conversation is initiated about the relationship between religious education (RE) and comparative theology (CT). It is the first time that these are both addressed explicitly in an international academic discourse. The authors are colleagues in a university setting of RE teacher education and are both involved in local RE research programs. Our approach is theological, and our shared interest is the existential lifeworld of children and young people. Firstly, we wish to bring RE and CT into conversation with each other, based on five common characteristics. Secondly, we describe how this conversation can possibly stimulate discussion on new pathways of intercultural encounters in the RE classroom, and this not only from a German (mainly confessional) perspective but also in light of other forms of non-confessional RE. After a (1) contextualization of RE in Germany, the authors describe (2) five central features of contemporary RE, followed by (3) five CT observations, connecting to these features. In (4), the relationship between the two is discussed as common ground for intercultural encounters and as a promising praxis and research field awaiting further development.

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Section: Religious Education and Comparative Theology: Creating Commo...mentioning

confidence: 99%