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The 'Research Center for Religion and Education' (RCRE; formerly Research Center for Religious Education Research, ZRB), founded in 2011, is dedicated to accompanying, stimulating and conducting scientific research on the connection between religion and education. The center's work focuses on past and present educational processes and its historical, systematic as well as empirical methods. At the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, the FZRB is assigned to the profile line "Liberty"External link as a structure-forming center; within the Faculty of Theology of the University of Jena, it shapes the profile-forming focus "Religious Education in the Context of Social Change".
The FZRB explicitly focuses its work on current challenges of religious education in order to be able to contribute to a contemporary religious education work in society, media, school, community and family.
Bonn, Otto Dibelius und Konrad Adenauer
Image: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F005314-0028 / CC-BY-SA 3.0We are delighted to announce that the new research project, "The Discourse on Protestant Pedagogy: Church Educational Policy and Denominational Educational Theory in the Weimar Republic" has been awarded funding by the DFG. This project will investigate the extent to which the concept of a 'Protestant Pedagogy' was intended to legitimize and solidify the social influence of the Protestant state churches within the religiously neutral Weimar Republic, aligning with the educational policy goals of the APU. By examining the discourse surrounding 'Protestant Pedagogy,' this project makes a significant contribution to historical educational research by offering the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between church educational policy and the development of (religious) pedagogical theory under the legal and political context of the Weimar Republic.
Cover des Jahresberichts 2022/23
Image: FZRBEvery year, the RCRE publishes a report on the achievements and work of the research center.
Latest Issue:
FZRB-Jahresbericht 2022/23pdf, 17 mb · de
You can view our previous annual reports here:
- FZRB-Jahresbericht 2021/22pdf, 13 mb · de
- ZRB-Jahresbericht 2020/21pdf, 9 mb · de
- ZRB-Jahresbericht 2019/20pdf, 13 mb · de
- ZRB-Jahresbericht 2018/19pdf, 6 mb · de
- ZRB-Jahresbericht 2017/18pdf, 14 mb · de
ZRB-Jahresbericht 2016/17pdf, 15 mb · de - ZRB-Jahresbericht 2015/16pdf, 11 mb · de
- ZRB-Jahresbericht 2014/15pdf, 6 mb · de
Research Center for Religion and Education
Faculty of Theology
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07743 Jena, Germany
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