Dialogue as an essential dimension of the relation between sacrum and profanum in German school textbooks for religious education

Abstract

In the article the author presents the dialogical model of religious education and its didactical implications as well as analyses the roles of this model in the process of students’ religious identity development, creating their relations with other sacrum representatives and developing their ability to dialogue.

In the second part of the text the outcomes of the research concerning German school religion course books treating them as the examples of the model mentioned above. The empirical analysis enabled to point at positive potential of the course books as the tools of creating the attitude of openness towards other religions and their disciples among students as well as taking responsibility for the creation of their own religious identity.