Jenseits von dem Wir und den Anderen: Interreligiöse Perspektiven auf das Othering in der Religionspädagogik

Interreligious Perspectives on Othering in Religious Education

Abstract

This article is all about the idea of othering in religious education from a Protestant, Catholic, and Islamic point of view. The goal is to show that differences aren’t bad but can be a useful resource for teaching and theology. It mixes theory with personal thoughts and real-life examples from schools to show how othering happens in everyday life. Reference is also made to theological approaches that would be suitable as starting points for an interreligious theology, which, in its educational form as interreligious learning, can be seen as the guiding principle of this article. On this basis, religious education implications for difference-sensitive teacher training and lesson planning are formulated. The article is intended as an interreligious invitation to critically analyse othering and work on it in a transformative way, in the sense of a plurality-capable and discrimination-critical religious education.