Religious Education in Pre-Modern Europe

Following their introduction discussing the establishment of a common analytical framework for studying and comparing religious education--i.e., education within religious traditions--from a historical perspective, editors Tanaseanu-Dobler (history of religions, Georg-August-U. Gottingen, Germany) and Dobler (history of religion, U. of Bremen, Germany) present eight papers exploring religious education in pre-modern Europe. Topics include religious education in classical Greece, learning about the Etruscan religion in ancient Rome, the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles as precursor of the conjunction of biblical faith and Hellenistic education, religious education in late antique paganism, Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus on poetry in Christian education, primary and secondary religious education in Byzantium, and religious education and Bernard of Clairvaux. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ilinca Tanaseanu-Dobler, Dr. phil. (2005), Universitat Bayreuth, is Professor of the History of Religions at the Courant Research Centre EDRIS, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen. 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 Beitrage zur Europaischen Religionsgeschichte (BERG; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012).Marvin Dobler 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).Contributors include Christoph Auffarth, Charles Guittard, Reinhard Feldmeier, E. Rozanne Elder, Andreas Schwab, Nikos Kalogeras, Marvin Dobler, and Ilinca Tanaseanu-Dobler.