Goldene Buchstaben ins Herz schreiben

Die Rolle des Memorierens in religiösen Bildungsprozessen

By (author) Arndt Elmar Schnepper Series edited by Gottfried Adam Series edited by Rainer Lachmann Series edited by Martin Rothgangel

Book cover: Goldene Buchstaben ins Herz schreiben

Extent: 317 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Religious Studies, Social Sciences 

Series: Arbeiten zur Religionspädagogik (ARP)

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(October 2012)

ISBN: 9783847100287

6.46 x 9.69 inches

Price: $99.00

In stock

This volume deals with the subject of learning by heart in the context of Protestant teaching. What traditions are there? What potential does this religious cultural technique hold? Memorizing is identified here – not just against the background of the observations of Jan und Aleida Assmann on “cultural memory” – as the chief mode of the Judaeo-Christian culture of remembrance. It is shown how important mnemonics was in this field from the Reformation to the mid-20th century; only in the course of the decade of reforms did it begin to lose significance. The author uses basic insights on cultural memory and specifies the potential of learning off-by-heart for processes in religious education: the formation of social identiy, the constitution of personal identity, counterfactual suspension, religious performance and the competence to use theological reasoning. Thus, even at the horizon of modernity, memorizing – the original mode of Judaeo-Christian remembrance – thus seems to be an invaluable desideratum of endeavours in religious education.

Dr. Arndt Elmar Schnepper, geboren 1966, hat in Dietzhölztal-Ewersbach, Kristiansand (Norwegen) und Pretoria (Südafrika) Evangelische Theologie studiert und promovierte 2012 an der Fakultät Humanwissenschaften und Theologie der TU Dortmund. Zurzeit ist er Pressesprecher des Bundes Freier evangelischer Gemeinden in Deutschland.

  • By (author) Arndt Elmar Schnepper
  • Series edited by Gottfried Adam
  • Series edited by Rainer Lachmann
  • Series edited by Martin Rothgangel