The German legislation on religious education according to Art. 7.3 GG (Basic Law) is repeatedly criticized. It is said to come from a time of religious homogeneity and not able to fit into a pluralistic society. In contrast, this article shows that the regulation at the time of its creation - i. e. in 1919 as part of the Weimar Constitution - already responded to a plural situation and balanced out heterogeneous interests in matters of religious education: Church groups, social democrats and political liberals could support the article of the Constitution. At the same time, however, its regulatory intention followed only the interests of the two main confessional churches. It could consider Judaism only in terms of the organization of the Christian churches, and it gave merely minor rights to non-religious citizens and hardly considered their educational concerns. So while the accusation that the German regulation is not apt for pluralism is not true from a historical perspective, there is nevertheless a moment of truth in it that cannot be denied.

Enthalten in:
Theologische Literaturzeitung; 2018/Nr.3 Monatsschrift für das gesamte Gebiet der Theologie und Religionswissenschaft (2018)

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Serie / Reihe: Theologische Literaturzeitung

Personen: Kubik, Andreas

Schlagwörter: Religionsunterricht Konfessioneller Religionsunterricht Pluralität