Perspectives of a life-world orientated Religious Education. Outlines for a Transdisciplinary Approach in the Context of Ethics and Educational Theory, Theology and Social Work Theory

Abstract

In the following, a possible approach to critical analysis as well as to the participatory and educational theoretical handling of ethical and religious structures of our life-world is to be demonstrated, which offers a further potential for life-world-orientated social work and the critical everyday theory. To this end, findings of the phenomenological approach in ethics relating to the importance of moral practices are connected to the concept of life-world according to Habermas, and are extended by a theory of education based on Habermas’ reception of the philosophy of symbolic forms (by Ernst Cassirer) – with particular attention to the desiderata of religious literacy and religious sensitivity. perception, emotions and narrations for our