Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Dr. phil. (2005), Universität Bayreuth, is Professor of the History of Religions at the Courant Research Centre EDRIS, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Her research has focused on religions in antiquity, and her second monograph, entitled Theurgy in Late Antiquity: Inventing a Ritual Tradition is forthcoming in the series Beiträge zur Europäischen Religionsgeschichte (BERG; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012).Marvin Döbler defended his PhD-thesis at the University of Bremen (2010) and works in the Department of the History of Religions there. He is interested in historical and methodological topics and his monograph entitled Die Mystik und die Sinne: Eine religionshistorische Untersuchung am Beispiel Bernhards von Clairvaux is also forthcoming in the series BERG (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012).

• ContentsTowards a Theoretical Frame for the Study of Religious Education: an Introduction - Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler, Marvin DöblerReligious Education in Classical Greece - Christoph AuffarthEtrusca Disciplina: How Was It Possible to Learn about Etruscan Religion in Ancient Rome? - Charles GuittardBefore the Teachers of Israel and the Sages of Greece: Luke-Acts as a Precursor of the Conjunction of Biblical Faith and Hellenistic Education - Reinhard FeldmeierReligious Education in Late Antique Paganism - Ilinca Tanaseanu-DöblerFrom a Way of Reading to a Way of Life: Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus about Poetry in Christian Education - Andreas SchwabLocating Young Students in Byzantine Churches: A Chapter on Primary and Secondary Religious Education in Byzantium - Nikos KalogerasFormation for Wisdom, Not Education for Knowledge - E. Rozanne ElderBernard of Clairvaux and Religious Education. An Approach from the Perspective of the History of Religions - Marvin Döbler

"These essays - the excellent bibliographies included - constitute state-of-the-art scholarship. They are excellently edited, and their contents are well worth pondering by anyone involved in the study of RE (Religious Education ed.) today." - Robert J. Doornenbal, in: Journal of Education and Christian Belief 17, no. 2 (2013)