Professor Dr. Manfred L. Pirner

For research fields and projects see Research Unit for Public Religion and Education (RUPRE)

CV and Recent Publications

Prof. Dr. Manfred L. Pirner
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Regensburger Strasse 160
D-90478 Nürnberg
GERMANY
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Email: manfred.pirner@fau.de

Manfred L. Pirner, Prof. Dr., Ordinary Professor of Religious Education at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany; Director of the Research Unit for Public Religion and Education (RUPRE; www.rupre.uni-erlangen.org); Co-Director of the Competence Centre for School Development and Evaluation (KSE; www.kse.phil.fau.de); Founding member of the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN; https://www.humanrights-centre.fau.de/); Associated member of the Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses (BaFID) (https://www.bafid.fau.eu/).

Main research fields: Public theology and public education; human rights, education and religion; refugees and religion; interreligious dialogue and learning; religiosity and professionalism of teachers; popular culture, digital media and religious education; faith-based schools.

Recent Publications in English:

  • Pirner, M. L. (2024, accepted). Digital sovereignty and digital ethics education in Religious Education. British Journal of Religious Education, 44.
  • Engel, D., Penthin, M., Riegel, U., & Pirner, M. L. (2024, in press). Religion as a Resource? The Impact of Religiosity on the Sense of Purpose in Life of Young Muslim Refugees in Germany. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees.
  • Pirner, M. L. (2024, in press). Religion, Education, and Public Theology. In L. F. Gearon & A. Kuusisto (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Education. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Pirner, M. L. (2024, in press). The Concept of Education in Christianity. In G. Tamer (Ed.), The Concept of Education in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Key Concepts of Interreligious Discourses). Berlin: De Gruyter.
  • Trefzer, F. M., & Pirner, M. L. (2023). Human Rights Education and Religious Education: Design-based Research on Integrating HRE into RE Teacher Education. Journal of Empirical Theology (2023), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1163/15709256-20231159
  • Penthin, M., Christ, A., Kröner, S., Pirner, M. L., & Scheunpflug, A. (2023). Does teachers’ spirituality make a difference? The explanatory value of spirituality and religiosity for teachers’ professional beliefs. Religion and Education, 50(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15507394.2023.2185051
  • Pirner, M. L. (2022). Religion, Human Rights and Education in Pluralistic Societies. Re-visiting John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. In J. Marko et al. (Eds.), Religious Diversity, State, and Law: National, Transnational and International Challenges (pp. 267–288). Leiden, NL: Brill.
  • Pirner, M. L. (2022). Relation to other religions. In C. Alpers & C. Hübenthal (Eds.), T & T Clark Handbook of Public Theology (pp. 221–243). London: T & T Clark.
  • Penthin, M., Pirner, M. L., Scheunpflug, A., & Kröner, S., (2022). Measuring student teachers’ beliefs regarding religion in schools: piloting and preliminary validation of two newly developed scales. British Journal of Religious Education, 43. https://doi.org/10.1080/01416200.2021.2007047
  • Pirner, M. L. et al. (Eds.), Public Theology Perspectives on Religion and Education. New York: Routledge 2019
  • Pirner M. L. et al. (Eds.), Public Theology, Religious Diversity, and Interreligious Learning: Contributing to the Common Good through Religious Education. New York: Routledge 2018
  • Pirner, M. L., J. Lähnemann & H. Bielefeldt (Eds.), Human Rights and Religion in Educational Contexts. Cham, Switzerland: Springer 2016.