Monika Jakobs

Monika Jakobs (* 1959 in Trier ) is a German Roman Catholic religious educator .

Life

Jakobs studied Catholic theology, German , political science and sociology in Saarbrücken and Cardiff . She completed her training as a high school teacher and worked at various types of schools and in adult education. After completing her doctorate in 1993, she was a lecturer in theology and religious education at the University of Koblenz-Landau from 1993 to 1999 . Since 1999 she has been professor of religious education and catechetics at the Theological Faculty of the University of Lucerne and is the director of the religious education institute RPI (formerly KIL) there. She had lectureships at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Münster , Würzburg and Kassel . In 2007/2008 she taught as a visiting professor at the Chur Theological University . In 2008 she was visiting professor at the University of Vienna . From 2003 to 2005 and from 2009 to 2013 she was Dean of the Theological Faculty of the University of Lucerne.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Women in search of the divine. The question of God in feminist theology (= women research 1). Münster 1993, ISBN 3925592121 .
• with Annette Rembold, Irene Löffler-Mayer: Father God and Mother Church. Building blocks for religious education. Münster 1995, ISBN 9783925592119 .
• New ways of catechesis. An overview of catechesis in theory and practice. Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-88207-396-6 .
• with Thomas Engelberger, Dominik Helbling and Ulrich Riegel : Denominational religious instruction in a multi-religious society. An empirical study for German-speaking Switzerland. Zurich 2009, ISBN 9783290200589 .

Magazine articles

• Why religious education must also be inclusive education. In: Belief and Learning . Theology interdisciplinary and practical 27/2 (2012), pp. 153–163.
• The terrain of religious education beyond confessionalism. A perspective from Switzerland. In: Theo-Web. Zeitschrift für Religionspädagogik 1 (2015), pp. 58–76.
• Religion and health from a religious psychological perspective - and what this means for religious education. In: Theo-Web. Zeitschrift für Religionspädagogik 17/1 (2018), pp. 83-100, on: http://www.theo-web.de/verbindungen/2017/16-jahrgang-2017-heft-2/?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D = 379 & cHash = 5bf5c6757b68a83173c066377a7384e6 .

Contributions to edited volumes

• The training of religious teachers in Switzerland in the field of tension between church and state educational interests. In: Philippe Büttgen, Antje Roggenkamp , Thomas Schlag (eds.): Religion and Philosophy. Perspective approaches to teacher training in Germany, France, Switzerland (= studies on religious education 13). Leipzig 2017, pp. 77–98.
• Family, baptism, catechesis - an inseparable bond or a nasty rift? In: Birgit Jeggle-Merz , Michael Durst (ed.): Family in focus (= Theological Reports 37). Freiburg 2017, pp. 320–344.
• The educational concept of teacher training by Theodosius Florentini (1808–1865) as a reaction to the moral crisis of society. In: Alexander Maier, Anne Conrad et al. (Hrsg.): Learning between time and eternity. Pedagogical practice and transcendence (= historical educational research). Bad Heilbrunn 2018, pp. 50–63.
• Feminist theology revisited. Violence against women as a subject of theology in the 21st century. In: Birgit Jeggle-Merz, Michael Durst (ed.): Violence - Rule - Religion. Contributions to the hermeneutics of violent texts (= Theological Reports 38). Einsiedeln 2018, pp. 226–245.

Web links

• University of Lucerne