Empirical research: Challenges and impulses for Islamic religious education |
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| Authors: | Fahimah Ulfat |
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| Institution: | 1. Chaur for Islamic Religious Pedagogy, Center for Islamic Theology (ZITh), Eberhard Karls Universit?t Tübingen , Tübingen, Germany fahimah.ulfat@uni-tuebingen.de https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7068-4661 |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT The following article describes how empirical research can give new impulses to Islamic religious education. These impulses could lead to a reconciliation of the Islamic religious heritage with the fast-changing reality of Muslims in non-Muslim countries and societies. Due to the presence of Muslim children in public schools and the urgent question of their religious education, as an academic discipline, Islamic religious pedagogy (Islamische Religionspädagogik) has acquired a pioneering role among the various Islamic theological disciplines. On a scientific level, it has already taken its first steps in the scientific landscape in Germany and Austria and has established diverse references to modern science. Islamic religious pedagogy, as a young scientific discipline, necessarily requires empirical research to provide sound foundations for the quality of Islamic religious education and for a better understanding of religious educational processes. This calls for a dialogue between empirical educational research and theology and cannot be achieved based on purely theoretical assumptions. |
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| Keywords: | Islamic religious pedagogy Islamic religious education empirical research Muslim children and youth relationship to God religion religious concepts of children and adolescence Germany Austria |
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