Welcome to the website of the Chair of Protestant Religious Education of the Institute of Protestant Theology at the University of Augsburg.

1. Introduction and subject of religious education

As part of the teacher training program at the Institute of Protestant Theology, this subject focuses on the theological discipline of religious education, with particular emphasis on the didactics of religious education in research and teaching. The subject of practical theology reflects religious and ecclesiastical practice and its orientation towards action in various social and institutional contexts. Religious education sees itself as a joint science between theology and education. Its subject matter is religious teaching, learning, and educational processes in society, family, school, and church. In the context of these two disciplines, religious and Christian forms are analyzed in their historical, life-historical, social, and institutional development and discussed concerning the practice of future religious education teachers. A particular focus here is the peace education perspective, which uses the example of interreligious educational processes.

2. Thematic focuses on the courses of the subject

• Religious development, socialization, and education
• Selected concepts of didactics of religious education in school forms and levels in the past and present
• Subject-specific didactic development of exemplary topics from theological sub-areas
• Bible didactics (also with bibliodramatic elements, Bibliolog, and Godly Play)
• Values education and theories of ethical education
• Children's and youth theology
• Religious education and gender theory
• Preparation, support, and follow-up of school internships
• Interreligious education/ peace education
• Prevention of anti-Semitism
• Confessional-cooperative teaching-learning settings
• Prevention of Islamophobia