Becoming Human

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About the Author

Zekirija Sejdini, Professor of Religious Education and Contemporary Islam, Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna, Head of the Center of Interreligious Studies, Innsbruck.

Martina Kraml, Professor of Religious Education, University of Innsbruck, Head of the Center of Interreligious Studies, Innsbruck.

Matthias Scharer, Professor Emeritus of Religious Education, University of Innsbruck, certificated trainer at the Ruth Cohn Institute International for TCI.

About the book

Religious and cultural diversity are increasingly visible today. At the same time, increased fear of the “other” has manifested, particularly of the Islamic religion. Islam today is considered a “problematic” religion. This attitude yields many challenges in universities and schools, particularly when it comes to religious education. The Institute for Islamic Theology and Religious Education and the Catholic Religious Education Department at the University of Innsbruck are addressing these challenges, having spearheaded a program of intensive cooperation in teacher education – including courses on pedagogy, religious didactics, internships, and evidence-based learning processes in schools and universities.
This research and teaching collaboration lacked an appropriate framework. This book provides a solid basis for interreligious pedagogy and didactics. Authentic interreligious cooperation begins by promoting intra- and inter-religious selfconfidence and self-understanding. This required countless discussions among the authors, which yielded distinct viewpoints as well as commonalities. In this way the anthropological starting point for this book emerged and is expanded through a theological perspective on religious education and didactics. Various approaches and attitudes are developed and examined, including contingency sensibility, to support the competent planning, management, and evaluation of educational processes in pluralistic and heterogeneous fields.

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Foreword by the Publishers of the Series

Introduction

chapter 1
Contexts We Move In

chapter 2
Anthropology – Theology – Education: Our Agreed-upon Foundations

chapter 3
Religious Pedagogy and Religious Didactics: How Do We Approach Them?

chapter 4
Possibility-Sensitive Religious Pedagogy and Religious Didactics

chapter 5
Possibility-Suitable Conceptualizations of Interreligious Educational Processes