Religious Experience and Experiencing Religion in Religious Education

About the author

Dr Daniel Fleming is Group Manager – Ethics and Formation for St Vincent’s Health Australia, a role in which he provides advice and education on ethics across the St Vincent’s Health and Aged Care Services. Previously he was Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at BBI – The Australian Institute of Theological Education.Prof. Dr. Claudia Gärtner, TU Dortmund, Institut für Katholische Theologie, ist Professorin für Praktische Theologie mit den Arbeitsschwerpunkten religionsdidaktische Unterrichtsforschung, Bilddidaktik sowie Jugendverbandsarbeit in der Ganztagsschule.Eva-Maria Leven is research assistant at the department of religious education in Siegen, Germany, and writes her PhD about the professionality of RE teachers.Malin Löfstedt, Associate Professor, Uppsala University, SwedenSiebren Miedema is Professor em. in Religious Education in the Faculty of Theology (Department Beliefs and Practices) and Professor Emeritus in Educational Foundations in the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences (Department of Pedagogy), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Dr. Sabrina Müller is a postdoctoral researcher in Practical Theology at the Centre for Church Development at the University of Zurich and a lecturer in Practical Theology in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Zurich. Her main research topics at the moment are: life-changing religious experiences, personal transformation processes, church development and missional movements such as fresh expressions of church, ordinary theology and pastoral theology and grief after suicide.Manfred l. Pirner is Professor of Religious Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Director of the Research Unit for Public Religion and Education (RUPRE).Ulrich Riegel is Professor for Religious Education within the Seminar of Catholic Theology at Siegen University, Germany. His main research is on both the empirical analysis of religious teaching and learning and the empirical analysis of religiosity. Recent research projects address the process of disaffiliation from the churches and how teachers deal with religious heterogeneity in religious education.Anders Sjöborg is Associate Professor in the Sociology of Religion at the Department of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden. His research interests include youth and religion as well as Religious Education from a sociological perspective. His recent research includes the project Teaching Religion in Late Modern Sweden, funded by the Swedish Research Council, as well as participation in the international research programme Religion and Human Rights.Alexander Unser is Assistant Professor for Catholic Theology and Religious Education at TU Dortmund University. His research focuses on socio-structural aspects of religious education, on interreligious learning, and on the political dimension of religiosity.Professor of Religious Education, University of Siegen.Ulrich Riegel is Professor for Religious Education within the Seminar of Catholic Theology at Siegen University, Germany. His main research is on both the empirical analysis of religious teaching and learning and the empirical analysis of religiosity. Recent research projects address the process of disaffiliation from the churches and how teachers deal with religious heterogeneity in religious education.Eva-Maria Leven is research assistant at the department of religious education in Siegen, Germany, and writes her PhD about the professionality of RE teachers.Dr Daniel Fleming is Group Manager – Ethics and Formation for St Vincent’s Health Australia, a role in which he provides advice and education on ethics across the St Vincent’s Health and Aged Care Services. Previously he was Academic Dean and Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at BBI – The Australian Institute of Theological Education.

Summary

In Europe, religious and spiritual education happens in a context which is at the same time increasingly secular and religiously plural. This places the problem of religious experience on the agenda. Today most students of religious and spiritual education lack appropriate experiences and show different opinions about what religion or spirituality could be.
This Setting raises several questions: How can religious experience be conceptualized in a context of religious plurality and secularity with the traditional religious traditions as just one option among others? How does lived religion contribute to such a conceptualization? Do the concepts of spirituality and implicit religion give way to a new understanding of religious experience? How can be grasped religious experience beyond the traditional religious practices? Do traditional empirical methods still fit? Which concepts and methods can we utilize in bringing religious experience into religious or spiritual education?

Additional text

In Europe, religious and spiritual education happens in a context which is at the same time increasingly secular and religiously plural. This places the problem of religious experience on the agenda. Today most students of religious and spiritual education lack appropriate experiences and show different opinions about what religion or spirituality could be.
This Setting raises several questions: How can religious experience be conceptualized in a context of religious plurality and secularity with the traditional religious traditions as just one option among others? How does lived religion contribute to such a conceptualization? Do the concepts of spirituality and implicit religion give way to a new understanding of religious experience? How can be grasped religious experience beyond the traditional religious practices? Do traditional empirical methods still fit? Which concepts and methods can we utilize in bringing religious experience into religious or spiritual education?

Product details

• Authors: Sophia Bietenhard, Petra Bleisch, Daniel Fleming
• Assisted by: Daniel Fleming (Editor), Eva-Mari Leven (Editor), Eva-Maria Leven (Editor), Ulrich Riegel (Editor)
• Publisher: Waxmann
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2018
• EAN: 9783830937951
• ISBN: 978-3-8309-3795-1
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Research on Religious and Spiritual Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Schulpädagogik, Religion, Religionspädagogik, Alte Geschichte, Archäologie, Interreligiöses Lernen, Secular, interreligious learning, sekularität