Religious studies

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Religious studies describes a lesson and its didactic discipline for which a (secular) state is responsible and which is aimed at all students, regardless of their religious or ideological affiliation.

The "customer" about religion / s is in the tradition of subjects that have been established in various fields of knowledge since the 18th century (such as history, geography, local history). The primary goal of the lesson is that students acquire knowledge about religion / s that is relevant to their orientation in the world. In Germany and Austria, religious studies is also used as a derogatory term in the Christian theological delimitation discourse, while in other (European) countries it has a positive connotation. Religious Studies deals with the teaching of religion / s with a social and cultural science approach and, particularly in Switzerland, is based on the didactics of subject teaching . Religious studies, for its part, are thus differentiated from interreligious learning , religious education and denominational religious instruction .

Religious Studies as a School Subject

Religious studies can be found in different variants in German-speaking countries:

  1. Religious studies under the name “Religion and Culture” existed as an independent school subject between 2007 and 2019 in the Canton of Zurich.
  2. Religious studies are mostly more or less a large part of subject associations with ethics and philosophy, such as in Brandenburg in the subject "Lebensgestanltung-Ethik-Religionskunde LER" or in substitute subjects for denomination-oriented religious instruction such as Lower Saxony in the subject of values ​​and norms .
  3. In Switzerland, religious studies are embedded in the subjects Nature-Human-Society (primary level) and Ethics-Religious Community (secondary level I) and thus integrated into the subject-matter teaching.

Institutionalization of religious studies didactics

The didactics of religious studies is a young discipline that has been organized and institutionalized since 2000. In 2007 the EASR Working Group Religion in Public Education was founded . The Society for Religious Studies followed in 2014 Société pour la didactique des sciences des religion , which has been publishing the journal for religious studies since 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kenngott, Eva-Maria: Religionskunde. February 2017, accessed on January 1, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Otto, Gert: Art. Religious Studies . In: Otto, Gert, Art. Religionskunde, Norbert Mette, Folkert Rickers (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Religionspädagogik . Neukirchen-Vluyn 2001, p. 1685-1691 .
  3. ^ Kenngott, Eva-Maria: Religionskunde. February 2017, accessed on January 1, 2020 (German).
  4. ^ Petra Bleisch, Séverine Desponds, Nicole Durisch Gauthier, Katharina Frank: Journal for Religious Studies - Terms, Concepts, Programs . ISSN  2297-6469 , p. 8 .
  5. ↑ Ralph Kunz, Matthias Pfeiffer, Katharina Frank-Spörri, Joszef Fuisz: Religion and culture - a school subject for everyone? tvz, Zurich 2005, ISBN 978-3-290-17346-3 .
  6. ^ Kenngott, Eva-Maria: Religionskunde. February 2017, accessed on January 1, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ German-speaking Swiss Education Directorate: Curriculum 21. Accessed on June 3, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ European Association for the Study of Religions: http://easr.info/easr-working-groups/public-education/. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  9. ^ Society for Religious Studies: Statutes. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
  10. ^ Society for Religious Studies: Journal for Religious Studies | Revue de didactique des sciences of religion. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .