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Religious education (RE) continues to be a feature of school life in Germany. On the basis of the Constitution, the Catholic and Protestant Churches were and still are allowed to offer confessional RE in school to baptized children from these communities. The 1970s saw a rethinking of the form taken by RE moving away from a focus on faith formation towards a more child-centred approach and a rebalancing of the relative roles of home and school. The German Catholic bishops, for instance, stated that children and young people should not be con verted into Christians in school, but should have the opportunity to critically position themselves in relation to a Christian-religious standpoint (Roebben, 2009, pp. 173–175). This implied that the family played the role of socializing children into a particular faith group, which was by and large the situation during this period.
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Roebben, B., Dommel, C. (2013). Education as Negotiation: Discovering New Patterns of Religious Identity Formation in Germany. In: Smyth, E., Lyons, M., Darmody, M. (eds) Religious Education in a Multicultural Europe. Education, Economy and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137281500_7
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