Religious pedagogy largely agrees that within religious education, interreligious instruction has to be aligned to the living environment of present-day children and youths. Yet in current concepts, this environmental context is normally interpreted in terms of the social proximity of the students, thus neglecting that the concept of religious contextuality has to be broadened as it develops in the interaction of global and local realities. Based on a case-study from the multi-religious context of Berlin, the present contribution discusses the initial conditions of interreligious education which are being changed by globalization. In a first step, the ambivalent presence of remoteness within the religious environment of modern youths is analyzed from an external sociological perspective. This is done in dialogue with selected sociological theories of reference which help to understand the "new contextuality" of the interreligious sphere as regards its basic dynamics of motivation. Subsequently, the essay focuses on inside aspects of this development: it addresses the question of how the spatial melting of the world influences the perception of the self and the other. Finally an approach is presented that substantiates the increasing globalization of religious environments from a youth-sociological perspective and makes it accessible to empirical analysis.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2014/3 Zweimonatsschrift (2014)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Simojoki, Henrik

Schlagwörter: Religion Lebenswelt Globalisierung Weltgesellschaft Interreligiöse Bildung