Lernziele des religionswissenschaftlichen Studiums: Eine Anregung zur Umsetzung hochschuldidaktischer Erkenntnisse

The last decade has witnessed many structural changes within German universities. One objective of the new agenda has been to improve the quality of university teaching. In German publications within the field of the academic study of religions, this objective has not yet been much discussed, though. This article wishes to stimulate the debate by introducing fundamental insights from the research on higher education and by applying these to the case of academic teaching about religion. The main emphasis of the paper is to formulate intended learning outcomes within the frame of the constructive alignment model. What is the main objective of teaching the study of religions in higher education? Do we wish to implement solely an academic habitus? Or is it our obligation to define learning outcomes transcending the boundaries of disciplinarily framed factual knowledge? These are the questions this paper is dealing with.