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Religious education lecture series summer semester 2021

Religion and secular society. A philosophical perspective by the philosopher of religion Prof. Dr. Thomas M. Schmidt from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

The sociologist of religion Prof. Dr. Detlef Pollack from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster talks about the patterns of religious change in modern societies

Religious education and identity discourses in Islam Prof. Dr. Tuba Isik, Humboldt University Berlin, Islam. Religious Education

Religious education and identity discourses in Judaism Bruno Landthaler, Frankfurt, Jewish religious education

Educational mission of conviviality through interdisciplinary learning Prof. Dr. Katja Boehme, Heidelberg University of Education, Catholic religious education

The religious situation in Germany with a special focus on diversity Prof. Dr. Volkhard Krech, Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Religious Studies

From tolerance to plurality competence - An Islamic perspective on the challenges of religious education in Germany. Prof. Dr. Tarek Badawia, Deputy Speaker of the Department - Professor of Islamic-Religious Studies with a focus on Religious Education/Religious Studies, University of Erlangen

The fundamental right to religious education, Prof. Dr. Angelika Günzel, Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, Brühl, Law

Jewish religious education teacher training at the HfJS from 2003 to 2018 - a review. Prof. Dr. Daniel Krochmalnik, University of Potsdam, Jewish Philosophy of Religion

Interdisciplinary one-day seminar as part of the Heidelberg University Lectures summer semester 2012

The ruling of the Cologne Regional Court on the circumcision of boys (case no. 151 Ns 169/11) has triggered a broad debate. It is not only the different positions that are remarkable, but also the dynamics that this topic unleashes. The debate and some of the statements made by its participants show how little understanding there still is within our society about its own present and future and how the idea of tolerance is increasingly dwindling. In the meantime, politicians have also spoken out, but their half-hearted proposals do not yet hold out the prospect of a consensual solution.

What is needed is an open, serious and informed debate. This is why - as an additional event as part of its "Heidelberg University Lectures on Society in Transition" - the Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, in cooperation with the Central Council of Jews in Germany, hosted a one-day seminar on July 22, 2012, at which academics and experts from society, science and politics had their say in an interdisciplinary exchange (all videos on YouTube).

I. History and culture - antiquity, the Middle Ages, modern times

Prof. Dr. Joachim Friedrich Quack, Heidelberg Traditional circumcision, its prohibition and special permission in Ancient Egypt

Prof. Dr. Johannes Heil, Heidelberg Circumcision as a motif in discourses of alterity and hostility towards Jews - a historical sketch

PD Dr. Andreas Brämer, Hamburg Tradition and reform: The circumcision debates around 1850

Prof. Dr. Birgit Klein, Heidelberg Circumcision, inner-Jewish criticism and gender aspects

II Law and rights

Prof. Dr. Heiner Bielefeldt, Erlangen Marginalization of Religious Freedom: Notes on the Discursive Environment of the Cologne Judgement

PD Dr. Edward Schramm, Freiburg Circumcision from a criminal law perspective

Stefanie Budmiger M.A., Heidelberg Circumcision of religious freedom: examples from European countries

Dr. Bijan Fateh-Moghadam, Münster Criminal law and religion in a liberal constitutional state: Legal arguments against the criminalization of circumcision

PD Dr. Benjamin Jokisch, Hamburg Sharia and Halacha in Germany - A departure into legal pluralism?

III History and culture - contemporary history and the present