Johannes Lähnemann

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Johannes Lähnemann at the award of the Federal Cross of Merit in Munich in 2008

Johannes Lähnemann (born June 15, 1941 in Schellerten ) is a German Protestant theologian and religious educator.

life and career

Lähnemann studied Protestant theology in Bethel , Heidelberg, Vienna and Münster and passed his first and second theological exams in 1965/1969. In 1967 he married Susanne Lähnemann, b. Dörner (1942–2004), daughter of Friedrich Karl Dörner and Eleonore Dörner . His eldest daughter Henrike Lähnemann is a mediaevalist . He received his doctorate in 1968 from the University of Münster under Willi Marxsen with a thesis on Colossians and was a research assistant in Münster from 1968 to 1973. From 1973 to 1980 he was an academic councilor at the Lüneburg University of Education . During his time there , he completed his habilitation in 1977 for practical theology / religious education in Bern with a thesis on world religions in class. In 1981 he received the chair for Protestant religious education and didactics of Protestant religious instruction at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , which he held until his retirement in 2007. In 2008 he married Sabine Lähnemann, b. Schulz-Pillgram. He has lived in Goslar since 2010 .

Lähnemann's work and research focuses on world religions in teaching and interreligious learning . Among other things, he set up the Interdisciplinary Center for Islamic Religious Studies and, together with Klaus Hock and Wolfram Reiss, carried out the research project "The Representation of Christianity in School Books of Islamic Countries". In 2008 he received the Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon and the Tschelebi Peace Prize for services in Christian-Islamic dialogue.

Lähnemann is Chairman of the Peace Education Standing Commission (PESC) of Religions for Peace (RfP), board member of the German section of Religions for Peace (RfP), member of the Round Table of Religions in Germany. He is the initiator and co-organizer of the "Nuremberg Forums", which take place every three years.

Awards

Publications

  • Encounter - understanding - cooperation. Interreligious work on site - experiences and perspectives from Nuremberg. Goettingen 2020
  • Public Theology - Perspectives on Religion and Education (ed. Together with Manfred Pirner, Werner Haußmann and Susanne Schwarz). New York / London 2019
  • Public Theology, Religious Diversity, and Interreligious Learning. Contributing to the Common Good Through Religious Education (ed. Together with Manfred Pirner, Werner Haußmann and Susanne Schwarz). New York / London 2018
  • Learning in encounter. A life on the way to interreligiousness. Göttingen 2017
  • Human Rights and Religion in Educational Contexts (ed. Together with Manfred Pirner and Heiner Bielefeldt). Switzerland 2016
  • Human rights and inter-religious education. (Ed. together with Manfred Pirner and Heiner Bielefeldt). Berlin 2015
  • Spirituality. Multi-religious. Encounter of religions in prayers, reflections, songs (together with the Nuremberg Group of Religions for Peace). Berlin 2014
  • Media Power and Religions. The Challenge Facing Intercultural Dialogue and Learning (ed. Together with Manfred Pirner). Frankfurt / M. 2013
  • Media power and religions. Challenge for interreligious education (ed. Together with Manfred Pirner and Werner Haußmann). Berlin 2011
  • I sing you with heart and mouth (song sermons, vol. 2. Nuremberg 2009)
  • Interreligious and Values ​​Education in Europe. Münster 2008, with P. Schreiner
  • Make visions come true. Interfaith education put to the test. Hamburg 2007
  • Your faith - my faith. Göttingen 2005, with W. Haußmann
  • Spirituality and Ethical Education. Hamburg 2000
  • Protestant religious education from an interreligious perspective. Goettingen 1998
  • The reawakening of religions as an educational challenge. Interreligious education in the field of tension between fundamentalism and secularism . EB-Verlag Rissen, Hamburg 1992
  • Song sermons. Nuremberg 1996
  • The Global Ethic Project in Education, Hamburg 1995
  • World Religions in Class, Part 1: Far Eastern Religions; Part 2: Islam, Göttingen 1986
  • Cultural encounter in school and study, Hamburg 1983
  • Study book "Jesus Christ", Frankfurt / Main 1980 (3rd edition 1989) with Ursula Hahlbohm
  • Non-Christian religions in class. Focus: Islam, Gütersloh 1977
  • The Philemon Letter. - Gütersloh, Mohn, 1973
  • The epistle of the Colossians. - Gütersloh, Mohn, 1971
  • Editor of the series "Pedagogical Contributions to Cultural Encounters" (EB-Verlag Hamburg / Berlin)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://intra-tagebuch.blogspot.de/2014/09/spiritualitat-des-friedens.html blog entry by the Interreligious Office of November 9, 2014