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Religious Education in Pre-Modern Europe: 140
Author(s): Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler (Editor), Marvin Döbler
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 28 Sept. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789004232136
- ISBN-13: 9004232133
Book Description
Although religious education is a much-debated topic in present-day History of Religions, its study focuses almost exclusively on contemporary phenomena. Furthermore, this field of study still lacks a comprehensive theoretical framework to structure research. The volume presented here explores religious education from a historical perspective, focusing on source material from pre-modern Europe. Scholars from the History of Religions, Theology, Classical Philology, Medieval Studies and Byzantine Studies contribute their expertise to analyse selected aspects of religious education in Antiquity, Byzantium and the Middle Ages, highlighting the diverse concepts of education, educational contents, actors, media, methods, ideals and intentions at play, and anchoring their case studies in the broader panorama of European history. Based on this material, the editors propose a systematic framework to map the research field.
Contributors include Christoph Auffarth, Charles Guittard, Reinhard Feldmeier, E. Rozanne Elder, Andreas Schwab, Nikos Kalogeras, Marvin Döbler, and Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler.
Editorial Reviews
Review
These essays – the excellent bibliographies included – constitute state-of-the-art scholarship. They are excellently edited, and their contents are
well worth pondering by anyone involved in the study of RE (Religious Education ed.) today. – Robert J. Doornenbal in: Journal of Education and Christian Belief 17, no. 2 (2013).
well worth pondering by anyone involved in the study of RE (Religious Education ed.) today. – Robert J. Doornenbal in: Journal of Education and Christian Belief 17, no. 2 (2013).
About the Author
Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Dr. phil. (2005), Universität Bayreuth, is Professor of the History of Religions at the Courant Research Centre EDRIS, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Her research has focused on religions in antiquity, and her second monograph, entitled Theurgy in Late Antiquity: Inventing a Ritual Tradition is forthcoming in the series Beiträge zur Europäischen Religionsgeschichte (BERG; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012).
Marvin Döbler defended his PhD-thesis at the University of Bremen (2010) and works in the Department of the History of Religions there. He is interested in historical and methodological topics and his monograph entitled Die Mystik und die Sinne: Eine religionshistorische Untersuchung am Beispiel Bernhards von Clairvaux is also forthcoming in the series BERG (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012).
Marvin Döbler defended his PhD-thesis at the University of Bremen (2010) and works in the Department of the History of Religions there. He is interested in historical and methodological topics and his monograph entitled Die Mystik und die Sinne: Eine religionshistorische Untersuchung am Beispiel Bernhards von Clairvaux is also forthcoming in the series BERG (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012).
