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The Role of Islam and Christianity in Public Space. Perspectives from Indonesia and Germany

26–28 Sept 2025
University of Münster
Europe/Berlin timezone

Session

Religious Education in Public Schools

27 Sept 2025, 16:30
JO1 (University of Münster)

JO1

University of Münster

Johannisstr. 4, 48143 Münster

Conveners

Religious Education in Public Schools: Religious Education in Public Schools

  • Carolin Puckhaber

Presentation materials

Antje Roggenkamp_Opportunities and limitations of denominational religious education in Germany_Insights into current developments and debates.pdf
Fahimah Ulfat_Islamic Religious Education in Germany_Developments, Understandings of Religious Education, and Research Perspectives.pdf
Suhadi Cholil_Niswatin Faoziah_The Politics of Religious Education in Indonesia_Patterns and Dynamics.pdf
  1. 21. The Politics of Religious Education in Indonesia: Patterns and Dynamics
    Dr Suhadi Cholil (Senior lecturer at the Graduate School of the State Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta)
    27/09/2025, 16:30
    Religious Education in Public Schools
    20-minute paper

    The organization of religious education in postcolonial Indonesia largely replicated the institutional patterns inherited from the colonial period, but with a shift in the locus of religious privileging. Under Dutch colonial rule, the state promoted Christian missionary schooling while restricting the growth of Islamic institutions, exemplified by the the formal incorporation of church...

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  2. 22. Islamic Religious Education in Germany: Developments, Understandings of Religious Education, and Research Perspectives
    Prof. Fahimah Ulfat (Professor of Islamic Religious Education and Didactics at the University of Münster)
    27/09/2025, 16:50
    Religious Education in Public Schools
    20-minute paper

    This presentation explores the development, conceptual foundations, and current state of Islamic Religious Education (IRE) in Germany. Beginning with the historical trajectory of IRE in the context of migration and educational policy, it examines the challenges of institutionalization within the framework of the German constitution. Beyond the institutional dimension, the contribution...

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  3. 23. Opportunities and limitations of denominational religious education in Germany: Insights into current developments and debates
    Prof. Antje Roggenkamp (Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Münster)
    27/09/2025, 17:10
    Religious Education in Public Schools
    20-minute paper

    The international context broadens our perspectives: While in the Netherlands, as recently as 2017, the 80% of religiously affiliated private schools predominantly offered religious instruction from the student's own denomination, in Sweden a state system dominates, with students having been taught together for approximately 60 years (Bertram-Troost 2017, Klintborg 2022). The situation is...

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  4. 24. Discussion
    27/09/2025, 17:30
    Religious Education in Public Schools
    Discussion
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