"Antisemitism"
Starting with courses in the summer semester 2025, the Institute of Catholic Theology is offering an interdisciplinary annual topic "Antisemitism" in the academic year 2025/26.
Anti-Semitism as a form of discrimination, stereotypical thinking and violence is deeply interwoven into local and global societies and has been continuously effective over the past centuries. It is currently very present in public reporting and is (once again) taking on an open and tangible form in everyday life.
For Christian theology, ethnic anti-Semitism is an issue not least because it was often prepared and underpinned by religious anti-Judaism. Anti-Judaism is a millennia-old phenomenon whose traces can still be found in contemporary theology. In view of the historical responsibility, the interdisciplinary examination of the topic will also look for a possible contribution of Christianity to shaping a world of justice and peace, and one aim is to train future religious education teachers so that they can competently and competently shape religious learning processes with children and young people and take practical action against anti-Semitism.
In order to achieve this, the annual theme will be supported by various events.
Thematic focus of courses in the winter semester 2025/26 on the theme of the year:
Seminar: Anti-Judaism in Christian theology: Biblical perspectives (Prof. Dr. Ilse Müllner)
Seminar: Ecclesia versus Synagogue. Christian anti-Judaism and its theological roots (Prof. Dr. Mirja Kutzer)
Seminar: Education critical of anti-Semitism - challenges, opportunities and necessities of religious education (Prof. Dr. Annegret Reese-Schnikter)
Thematic focus of courses in the summer semester 2025 on the annual topic:
Cooperation seminar: Interreligious learning, interreligious dialog, theology of religions. Religious plurality as a systematic and religious education challenge (Prof. Dr. Annegret Reese-Schnitker in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Tom Kleffmann, Institute for Protestant Theology) with excursion to the House of Religions in Hanover
Seminar: Preserving history, shaping the future: Theological ways to prevent anti-Semitism (Tina Krasenbrink) with excursion to Krakow and Auschwitz
Further events:
- Public lecture series "Anti-Semitism and its Christian roots"
- Conducting a religious education and theology study day in the winter semester: "Between heritage and mission. Anti-Semitism in the shadow of the cross"
