Religion, Interreligious Learning and Education

Karlo Meyer is Chair and Professor of Religious Education at the University of Saarland, Germany and currently Chairperson of the Society for Academic Religious Education (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). He studied theology at the University of Tübingen and Göttingen and education at the University of Birmingham, UK, under Professor John Hull, before returning to Göttingen to complete his doctorate on a comparison between German and English multifaith RE. He gained his post-doctoral ‘Habilitation’ degree in Religious Education and Practical Theology from the University of Vienna, Austria. Professor Meyer has also taught at the University of Bremen.

• multifaith – interreligious learning in religious education – understanding of religion – of perspectivity – of dealing with experiences of transcendence – of how to identify and distinguish aims – goals; systematic of approaches to RE – personalisation, double individual referentiality