A theory of recognition as framework for religious education. Reading Axel Honneth from a pedagogical and theological perspective

Experiences of withheld and of granted recognition constitute an integral part of everybody’s learning biography, as the experience of recognition is crucial to all processes of socialisation and i...

History, remembrance and religious education

History, remembrance and religious education is a collection of selected conference papers from the 2012 meeting of the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values (ISREV) in Turku, Fin...

Subjective definitions of spirituality and religion. An explorative study in Germany and the USA

This paper shows how corpus methods can be usefully employed in the field of psychology of religion in triangulation with other empirical instruments. Current international surveys mirror an on-going transformation in subjective meanings in religious discourse cumulating in the question: what do people actually mean when they describe themselves as spiritual, religious or neither? The paper presents results of a cross-cultural study with 1,886 participants in the US and Germany. The thematic goal is to explore subjective understandings by examining personal definitions ofreligionandspirituality. Methodologically, the study shows how the key word procedure can be used to compare the semantic…

Martin Rothgangel, Henrik Simojoki, Ulrich H.J. Körtner (Hg.): Theologische Schlüsselbegriffe. Subjektorientiert – biblisch – systematisch – didaktisch. Neuausgabe, Göttingen 2019 (Theologie für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer [TLL] 1), 513 S.

“The tree was there first” – using an everyday ecological dilemma to explore the personal orientations of secondary school students in environmental decision-making

Studies have repeatedly shown that the goals of environmental education are as indispensable as they are difficult to achieve. In particular, the discrepancy between environmental awareness and eve...

The Importance of Religion for the Evaluation of Everyday Ecological Decisions by German Adolescents

Abstract Although previous research has addressed the relationship between religion and ecology in a variety of ways, little is known concerning how religious orientation affects concrete everyday ecological decisions, although these are centrally important for environmental education. Being interested in elucidating the preconditions of ecological learning in Biology and Religious Education in schools, the authors have developed an approach based on maximum concretion with regard to the ecological decision in which the influence of religion should be evaluated. With this goal in mind, they conducted an empirical study among secondary school students in central Western Germany (N = 815), wh…