Essentialisierende Konzepte von Religionen bei Schüler*innen der Sekundarstufe I

Abstract

Religions are portrayed in many contexts, essentialized and generalized. Young people also show tendencies to essentialize religions and their members and to reduce them to a specific religious practice. How and to what extent students essentialize religions was surveyed by means of a questionnaire among 180 adolescents from the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The results show different degrees of essentialization in different dimensions. Essentializations and their social implications should be critically discussed in religious education.