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Religion requires education. Soon after the emergence of Christianity, religious education became crucial to the development of Christian communities in towns and in the countryside. People were educated in different ways: via socialization in families and peer-groups, education by teachers at home, in school and in catechetical settings, and in the form of self-formation. Religious education, moreover, is transmitted within the tension between human and divine agency: while educational processes are initiated by human teachers, Christ is often understood as the real teacher when it comes to believing in God. But religion was nonetheless taught by human beings in families, parishes, monasteries and elsewhere. The present volume analyzes the human agents of such education: bishops, catechists, mothers and fathers, and monastic teachers both male and female. It thus offers a comparative analysis of teachers' roles in Christian educational contexts, dealing with questions such as: Who taught in late antique Christianity? Which imagery is used to describe such teaching? What impact do gender ascriptions have on teaching roles and processes? And where do conflicts emerge between different roles and their social settings?

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"Geboren 1970; 1990-96 Studium der Ev. Theologie an den Universitäten Marburg und Göttingen; 2001 Promotion zum Dr. theol. an der Philipps-Universität Marburg; 2003 Ordination zum Pfarrer der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck; 2006 Habilitation an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; seit 2007 Lehrstuhlinhaber für Kirchengeschichte an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; 2015-20 Sprecher des Sonderforschungsbereichs ""Bildung und Religion""; 2021-23 Dekan der Theologischen Fakultät. Geboren 1988; 2013 Master of Education in Spanisch und Ev. Religion an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; seit 2020 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Bildungsabteilung des Kirchenamtes der Evangelischen Kirche Deutschlands (EKD). Geboren 1986; Studium der Ev. Theologie an der Universität Aarhus; 2015 Promotion im Fach Kirchengeschichte ebendort; 2015-19 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im SFB 1136 ""Bildung und Religion""; seit Oktober 2019 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Ev. Theologischen Fakultät, Universität Bonn."

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