Friedrich Schweitzer Books

This book is about international knowledge transfer in religious education as an academic discipline; at the same time, though, it is related to the school subject of RE. Its aim is to strengthen the awareness of the need for international cooperation in the field of religious education in general and especially for clarifying the role of knowledge in this kind of cooperation. The contributions discuss a number of issues, among others related to the validity and transferability of knowledge in religious education. Thus, the book takes up a topic which so far has remained implicit and therefore also untreated. This approach implies a whole spectrum of new methodological and epistemological problems. Some crucial questions that are discussed in the chapters from different national contexts - How can the national and the international context be productively connected to each other? - Which concept or understanding of >internationalknowledgetransfer< mean in this context? The scope of the book is an invitation to other colleagues to take part in and to continue the discussion.

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.

Das Jahrbuch untersucht die Lebensrealitäten von Muslimen und Juden in Deutschland, indem es deren Stimmen einbezieht und die komplexen religiösen, sozialen und kulturellen Bedingungen analysiert. Es beleuchtet das Verhältnis von Judentum, Christentum und Islam im Kontext wachsender Säkularität und Heterogenität. Durch interdisziplinäre Ansätze und didaktische Konzepte eröffnet es neue Perspektiven für die didaktische Auseinandersetzung mit Judentum und Islam und fördert innovative Ansätze für interreligiöses Lernen.