PRONET² Project P34: Depiction of sexualized violence in the Bible and religious education - completed

"Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung" by the federal and state governments; funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Phase 1: 01.10.2015-31.12.2018
Phase 2: 01.01.2019-31.12.2023

Biblical Theology/Old Testament: Prof. Dr. Ilse Müllner
Religious Education: Prof. Dr. Annegret Reese-Schnitker

Former research assistant: Dr. Nele Spiering-Schomborg
Former research assistant: Marcel Franzmann
Former research assistant: Sarah Caroline Jäger

Questions about the depiction of sexualized violence in the Bible and religious education form the focus of the sub-project. An important goal is to enable professionally framed discussions about sexualized violence in religious education and thereby contribute to the removal of taboos and then to primary prevention. Working with biblical texts that address (sexually) violent situations in a contrastive variety is crucial here. As teaching and learning media, however, the stories need a suitable setting: in relation to sexualized violence, for example, there is still a need to promote a diverse culture of speaking that, among other things, takes a critical look at the social interplay of structures of violence and exposes forms of oppression such as sexism as having the power to hurt. In the field of religious education, there is a clear need to catch up in terms of such primary prevention of sexualized violence. By developing and testing teaching and learning concepts, we are making a contribution to this. In the first phase of the project (2015-2018), this was done in the narrower context of the university, i.e. student teachers were introduced to the topic through an exchange with biblical stories and with the help of interdisciplinary approaches and sensitized to the central categories of (sexual) violence, power and gender. The university didactic learning environment bears the name H.A.G.A.R - which stands for Look, Listen, Believe, Share, Respond. H.A.G.A.R is both the object of investigation and the output of the PRONET projects of the first and now also the second phase (2019-2023). The learning environment will be adapted and evaluated for religious education at secondary schools. The aim is also to "materialize" the existing learning environment. In addition to the school, the focus will be on developing new learning spaces: a research workshop and an online portal. They are intended to expand the range of learning opportunities and open them up to different target groups - as platforms for supply, exchange and innovation.

Ilse Müllner/Annegret Reese-Schnitker/Nele Spiering-Schomborg, Sprachfähig werden. Addressing sexualized violence in religious education. In: Catechetische Blätter 2019 (4), pp. 305-311.

Nele Spiering-Schomborg, Practical teaching suggestions for dealing with "Texts of Terror". In: Catechetical Sheets 2019 (4), 312-318.

Ilse Müllner/Annegret Reese-Schnitker/Nele Spiering-Schomborg, Overcoming Silence. Teaching and learning in the wake of Old Testament accounts of sexualized violence. In: Monique Meier/Kathrin Ziepprecht/Jürgen Mayer (eds.), Teacher training in networked learning environments. Münster: Waxmann 2018, pp. 163-178.

Nele Spiering-Schomborg, Sexualized violence and Bible didactics. In: Alexandra Retkowski/Angelika Treibel/Elisabeth Tuider (eds.), Handbuch Sexualisierte Gewalt und pädagogische Kontexte. Theory, research, practice. Weinheim and Munich: Beltz Juventa 2018, pp. 679-688.

Nele Spiering-Schomborg, Sido prays. Hip hop meets psalm didactics. In: Austrian Forum for Religious Education. Graz and Vienna 2017, 25 (2), pp. 27-31. Available at: http://unipub.uni-graz.at/oerf/periodical/titleinfo/2302878