Religious Knowledge and Positioning : The Case of Nineteenth-Century Educational Media / edited by David Käbisch, Kerstin von der Krone, and Christian Wiese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Käbisch, David, editor.

Von der Krone, Kerstin, editor.

Wiese, Christian, editor.

Series:

Religiöse Schriftenreihe ; Volume 3.

Religiöse Positionierungen in Judentum, Christentum und Islam Series ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion).

Religion--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

What should one know in order to position oneself vis-à-vis other religions and confessions? What is religious knowledge and how should it be taught? This volume sheds light on educational media in Judaism and Christianity such as catechisms, children’s bibles, and sermons as well as Jewish and Protestant teacher training in 19th-century Germany and explores the methodological potentials of educational media as a source for (inter-)religious history. It reflects on broader processes of knowledge production and the impact of science and scholarship on religious edu-cation and knowledge production within Christian and Jewish contexts. The volume draws on an interdisciplinary conference that took place in 2018 and brought together scholars associated with two transdisciplinary research projects: The German-Israeli research group “Innovation through Tradition? Jewish Educational Media and Cultural Transformation in the Face of Moder-nity”, associated with the German Historical Institute Washington and Tel Aviv University (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG, 2014–2019), and the LOEWE research hub “Religious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Contexts” at Goethe University Frankfurt and Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (funded by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art, 2015–2021).

Contents:

Intro

Foreword to the Series

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part A: Printing, Publishing, and Translation in the Nineteenth-Century: Methodological Considerations on Educational Media

Cultural Translation and Educational Media

Printing and Publishing Religious Educational Media in the Nineteenth-Century

Part B: Educational Media and Teacher's Training as Response to New Social, Cultural, Political, and Economic Changes

The Modernization of Jewish Teacher Training in the Age of Emancipation - The Example of Prussia (1780-1871)

The Professionalization of Protestant Clergy as Teachers of Religion in the Nineteenth-Century - The Example of Jena

Part C: Catechisms

Nineteenth-Century Jewish Catechisms and Manuals: Or What One Should Know about Judaism

Confessional Position-Taking in Nineteenth-Century Christian Catechism Culture

Part D: Children's Bibles

"God Is Not Just One People's God, Not a National God, But the Only God of All Nations": Religious Knowledge in Jewish Children's Bibles

Bear-ing Witness to the Gospel: Religious Knowledge and Position Taking in Illustrations of Nineteenth-Century Children's Bibles

Part E: Sermons

"Let There Be No Strife Between Me and You": On the Relationship Between Judaism and Christianity in an 1859 Sermon by Adolf Jellinek

The Sermon - an Educational Medium? Reflections on a Fundamental Understanding of the Practice of Christian Preaching

Part F: Historical Treatises and Textbooks

In the Shadow of Protestantism: David Cassel's and Paulus (Selig) Cassel's Educational Representations of the History of Judaism in Mid-Nineteenth Century Germany

About the authors

Source index and Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-079590-6