Manfred L. Pirner

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Manfred L. Pirner (* 1959 in Sulzbach-Rosenberg ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor of religious education .

Manfred L. Pirner studied high school teaching with subjects English and Protestant theology at the Universities of Erlangen and Glasgow. From 1989 to 1992 he worked as a teacher at the Dinkelsbühl grammar school , then as a research assistant at the chair for religious education at the University of Bamberg . He received his doctorate in 1997 and completed his habilitation in 2000. From 2000 to 2008 he taught as professor for Protestant theology / religious education at the University of Education in Ludwigsburg , most recently as dean of Faculty I. Since 2008 he has held the chair for religious education and didactics of the ev. Religious instruction at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg . In May 2014 he received the prize for outstanding teaching from the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art .

His main research interests include: theology and education, Christian-sponsored schools, popular culture theology, media and religious education, interreligious learning, bilingual religious instruction, empirical research on teachers, teaching and socialization.

Pirner is married and has a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

  • Edited with Johannes Lähnemann : Human rights and inter-religious education . EB-Verlag, Berlin 2015.
  • Edited with Johannes Lähnemann: Media Power and Religions. The challenge facing in-tercultural learning . Peter Lang International, Oxford 2013.
  • Edited with W. Pfeiffer, R. Uphues: Media education in school contexts. Educational and didactic perspectives (= interdisciplinary media pedagogy, vol. 9). kopaed, Munich 2013.
  • with Rita Burrichter , Bernhard Grümme , H. Mendl, Martin Rothgangel , Thomas Schlag : Teaching religion professionally. A workbook (= Religious Education Innovative, Vol. 2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012.
  • Edited with Bernhard Grümme, Hartmut Lenhard : Rethink religious instruction. Innovative approaches and perspectives for religious education (= Religious Education Innovative, Vol. 1). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2012.
  • Edited with Johannes Lähnemann, W. Haußmann: Media power and religions. Challenge for intercultural education. Papers and results of the Nuremberg Forum 2010 (= educational contributions to the cultural encounter, vol. 29). ebv-Verlag, Hamburg 2011.
  • Christian pedagogy. Basic considerations, empirical findings and conceptual guidelines . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008.
  • TV Myths and Religious Education. Foundation of a media experience-oriented religious education using the example of fictional television entertainment . Joint effort of the Ev. Journalism, Frankfurt / M. 2001. New publisher from 2005: kopaed, Munich.
  • Edited with Matthias Rath : Homo medialis: Perspectives and Problems of an Anthropology of the Media , kopaed, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-935686-47-1 .
  • Music and Religion in School. Historical-systematic studies from the perspective of religion and music education (= work on religious education). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999 (= dissertation).
  • Between cooperation and struggle. Protestant religious instruction and Christian education in Bavarian schools during the time of National Socialism (= studies of theology 17). Stephans bookstore Matthias Mittelstädt, Würzburg 1998.

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SURNAME Pirner, Manfred L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulzbach-Rosenberg