Training of Imams and Teachers for Islamic Education in Europe
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- ISBN 9783631634523
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 18 Oct 2012
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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Following 9/11 and the growth of religiously legitimated violence in Islamic countries, the focus of public discussion moved to imams and teachers of religion as actors supporting Muslim isolation and the lack of willingness to integrate – imams became central figures in the debate on Islam. With great enthusiasm, politicians discovered them to be the scapegoats of a failed integration of Muslims in Europe. Integrated imams trained in Europe were to promote Muslim integration, prevent violence, resolve contradictions between society and Muslims and further Islamic enlightenment. With this objective an attempt was made, on the one hand, to rediscover the existing institutions for imam training in Balkan states and, on the other hand, to establish new educational institutions at European universities to train Europe-compliant imams. Due to their central role in the lives of Muslims, the training of imams and teachers of religion is given an important role in the process of Muslim integration.
Ednan Aslan is the Chair of Islamic Religious Education at the Department of Education at the University of Vienna. He is responsible for teachers’ training in Islamic religious education and is chairperson of different working groups on the development of curricula in Germany, Austria, and Southeast Europe. He has published intensively on Islamic religious education in Europe.
Zsófia Windisch is a PhD candidate and works as the study assistant of Islamic Religious Education at the University of Vienna’s Department of Education. She has studied in the UK, Hungary and Turkey, and graduated in International Relations. She also holds a master’s degree in International Economic Relations. Her research interests are European Islam, transnational religious movements, and the education of Muslim religious minorities.
Zsófia Windisch is a PhD candidate and works as the study assistant of Islamic Religious Education at the University of Vienna’s Department of Education. She has studied in the UK, Hungary and Turkey, and graduated in International Relations. She also holds a master’s degree in International Economic Relations. Her research interests are European Islam, transnational religious movements, and the education of Muslim religious minorities.
