Elisabeth Naurath

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Elisabeth Naurath (* 1965 ) is a German Protestant theologian and religious educator. From 2008 to 2013 she was Professor of Practical Theology / Religious Education at the University of Osnabrück and since 2013 she has been Professor of Protestant Theology with a focus on religious education and didactics of religious education at the University of Augsburg .

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After graduating from high school in Kaufbeuren , Bavaria , Naurath studied Protestant theology from 1984 to 1992 at the universities of Munich, Göttingen and Heidelberg and completed his studies with the first theological exam at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . From 1992 to 2003 she was initially a research assistant, from 1999 she was a research assistant at the chair of Protestant theology with a focus on religious education and didactics of religious education at the University of Augsburg. In addition to her professional activity, Naurath was involved in voluntary hospital pastoral care at the Augsburg Central Hospital from 1993 to 1996 and completed both clinical pastoral trainingas well as training to become a bibliodrama director . In 1999 Naurath started working on pastoral care as body care. PhD in perspectives of body-oriented hospital pastoral care ; the dissertation was awarded the Augsburg University Prize.

With the help of a DFG scholarship from 2003 to 2005, Naurath wrote her habilitation thesis on the subject of With emotion against violence. Compassion as the key to ethical education in religious education , which led to the granting of the license to teach in November 2006 . In 2008, the habilitation thesis was awarded the Hanna Jursch Prize by the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany . This was followed by a vicariate and the second theological exam before the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony . In May 2008 she was ordained honorary pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.

After a substitute professor at the University of Osnabrück in the 2007/2008 winter semester, she became professor there in March 2008 (W 2, from March 2012 W 3) for practical theology and religious education. Together with Martina Blasberg-Kuhnke , she immediately became chairman of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Values ​​Education at the University of Osnabrück. In October 2011, Naurath turned down an offer for a professorship at the University of Bamberg . Instead, in September 2013 she accepted a professorship (W 3) for Protestant theology with a focus on religious education and didactics of religious education at the University of Augsburg, where she founded the Peace Education Center for Interreligious Education. Furthermore, since 2004 she has been a member of the newly founded Center for Teacher Training and Interdisciplinary Educational Research.

Naurath's main research areas are in the areas of peace education, interreligious education, theological educational theory, child and youth theology, religious socialization and gender research, value formation and ethical learning, as well as the theory of pastoral care and school pastoral care.

In addition to her academic work, Naurath is also involved in church committees of the EKD. From 2008 to 2015 she was a member of the Specialized Commission II of the Mixed Commission for the Reform of Theology Studies, which is responsible for teacher training courses, and from 2012 to 2015 also chaired it. In 2010 she was also appointed to the EKD Chamber for Education and Upbringing, Children and Youth, of which she was a member until 2015. Since 2016 she has been chairwoman of the jury of the Hanna Jursch Prize of the EKD.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Pastoral care as body care. Perspectives of a body-oriented hospital pastoral care , (also dissertation, University of Augsburg 1999; series: Practical Theology Today; Vol. 47), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 2000, ISBN 978-3-17-016264-8 .
  • with Godwin Lämmermann and Uta Pohl-Patalong : Workbook Religious Education . An accompanying book for study and practice , Gütersloh 2005, ISBN 978-3-579-05425-4 .
  • With a feeling for violence. Compassion as the key to ethical education in religious education , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2007, 3rd edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-7887-2218-0 .

Editorships

  • with Uta Pohl-Patalong: Bibliodrama. Theory - Practice - Reflection , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-17-017180-0 .
  • with Uta Pohl-Patalong: Recent developments in the psychology of religion , special issue of the journal Practical Theology , vol. 46, 2011.
  • with Martina Blasberg-Kuhnke, Eva Gläser, Reinhold Mokrosch and Susanne Müller-Using: How values ​​are formed: interdisciplinary and subject-specific value formation (series: Value formation interdisciplinary; Vol. 1), V&R, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3 -8471-0130-7 .
  • with Georg Langenhorst : Kindertora - Kinderbibel - Kinderkoran: New opportunities for (inter) religious learning , Verlag Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-37660-3 .
  • with Konstantin Lindner, Mirjam Schambeck and Henrik Simojoki: Sustainable religious instruction . Confessional - cooperative - contextual , Verlag Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2017, ISBN 978-3-451-37802-7 .

Series editorships

  • with Astrid Dinter, Lothar Kuld and Hilary Mooney : Ökumenische Religionspädagogik , Lit Verlag, Münster et al. 2009ff.
  • with Stefan Altmeyer, Helga Kohler-Spiegel , Bernd Schröder , Friedrich Schweitzer and Rudolf Englert : Yearbook of Religious Education , Neukirchen-Vluyn [since year 26, 2010].
  • with Martina Blasberg-Kuhnke, Eva Gläser, Reinhold Mokrosch and Susanne Müller-Using: Value-Education interdisciplinary , V&R, Göttingen 2013ff.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ This and all the following biographical information from https://www.philso.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/evangtheol/relpaed/kontakt/team/naurath/
personal data
SURNAME Naurath, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and religious educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1965