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

"Quality Offensive Teacher Education" 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 portrayal 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 thus to contribute to the removal of taboos and to primary prevention. The work on biblical texts, which address (sexually) violent situations in a contrastive variety, is decisive. As teaching and learning media, however, the narratives need a suitable setting: with regard to sexualized violence, for example, there is still a need to promote a multifaceted culture of speaking that, among other things, looks scrutinizingly at the social interrelationship of violent structures and exposes forms of oppression such as sexism as powerful in terms of injury. In the field of religious education, there is a clear need to catch up in view of such primary prevention of sexualized violence. By developing and testing teaching-learning concepts, we contribute to this. In the first project phase (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 narratives 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, Participate, 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 in secondary schools. Furthermore, a "materialization" of the existing learning environment is aimed at. In addition to the school, the focus hereafter is on the development of new learning sites: a research workshop and an online portal. These are intended to expand the spectrum of learning opportunities and open them up to different target groups - as platforms for offerings, exchange and innovation.

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

Nele Spiering-Schomborg, Unterrichtspraktische Anregungen zum Umgang mit "Texts of Terror". In: Katechetische Blätter 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 Education in Networked Learning Environments. Münster: Waxmann 2018, pp. 163-178.

Nele Spiering-Schomborg, Sexualized violence and biblical didactics. In: Alexandra Retkowski/Angelika Treibel/Elisabeth Tuider (eds.), Handbook Sexualized Violence and Pedagogical Contexts. Theory, research, practice. Weinheim and Munich: Beltz Juventa 2018, pp. 679-688.

Nele Spiering-Schomborg, Sido betet. 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