Religious and Cultural Diversity

Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

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Religious and Cultural Diversity

Soziale Arbeit (B.A.)

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Migration is one of the social problems that occur in the field of international social work not only in Europe but worldwide. In that respect awareness about cultural diversity is pivotal. The module provides the opportunity to reflect issues concerning cultural diversity in a group of students from different European countries.A lot of problems regarding cultural diversity refer to religious diversity. These issues are in the focus of the seminar discussion. The seminar also provides the opportunity to explore the practice of interreligious learning during field trips.

• 1 Culture and Identity
  1.1 Identity and interaction
  1.2 Identity and the experience of alterity
  1.3 Collective and individual identity
  
  2 Religion and identity
  2.1 Religion and modernity
  2.2 Paradigms of the relationship between religions
  2.3 Interreligious competence
  
  3 Interreligious learning
  3.1 Concepts in interreligious learning
• 32. Examples of interreligious learning (field trips)

Wissensverbreiterung
The students know basic theories concerning identity generation. They understand how challenging it is, to shape one's identity under the circumstances of foreignness and in encountering strangers.
The students know approaches of sociology in order to understand how relevant religion in a modern society is.
They know approaches of the religious sciences, which define the relationship between religions.
Wissensvertiefung
The students know concepts of interreligious learning.
Können - instrumentale Kompetenz

Können - kommunikative Kompetenz
The students are able to communicate in a religious and culturally diverse environment.
They are able to broach issues that relate to religious diversity in an appropriate way.
Können - systemische Kompetenz

Lecture, discussion, group work, self-study, field trips

Knowledge about basic theories in the field of ethics.

Kuhnke, Ulrich

Kuhnke, Ulrich

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Berger, P.L., The Many Altars of Modernity. Towards a Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age, Boston - Berlin 2014

Trigg, R., Religious Diversity. Philosophical and Political Dimensions, Cambridge 2014

Eppenstein, T. / Kiesel, D., Soziale Arbeit interkulturell. Theorien - Spannungsfelder - reflexive Praxis, Stuttgart 2008

Heinemann, S., Interkulturalität. Eine Herausforderung für Kirche und Diakonie, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2012

• Hausarbeit
• Klausur 2-stündig
• Referat

The capability to reflect social issues in the context of religious and cultural diversity and to conceptualize social practice as a response to such issues.

1 Semester

Nur Wintersemester

Englisch