Introduction -- PART I Empirical Approaches: Lived Religion in Everyday Life -- Religion auf dem Flohmarkt am Helvetiaplatz in Zürich. Ein religionswissenschaftlicher Essay (Bärbel Beinhauer-Köhler) -- Oh When the Saints Go Marching in on Cell Phones. About the Materiality of the Life-World as a Challenge for Religious Education (Inken Mädler) -- A Pilgrimage of a Different Kind. The Landing of the First A 380 at Frankfurt International Airport Refl ected from a Theological Perspective (Kerstin Söderblom) -- Lived Religion in Norwegian Pupils' Religious Education Workbooks (Elisabet Haakedal) -- More Spiritual than Religious: Changes in the Religious Field Require New Approaches (Heinz Streib) -- PART II Exegetical and Historical-Theological Contributions -- ,,Das Gesetz des Lebens" (Sirach 17,11) (Markus Witte) -- The Sensuousness of the Pilgrim. Sermon Regarding the Relationship between Eroticism and Religion in the Music of Richard Wagner and the "Song of Songs" in the Bible (Peter Steinacker) -- Die politische Botschaft des Abendmahls (Stefan Alkier) -- Pedagogy of Religion as a Major Dimension of Pastoral Care. Observations from the 16th Century Struggle for Educational Reform and its Legacy for Today (Markus Wriedt) -- PART III Lived Religion-Conceptual Perspectives -- Religion in the Bodily Communication. A Phenomeno-Logical Snapshot (Silke Leonhard) -- The Performativity of Perception and its Theological Signifi cance. The Example of Pastoral Care (Christopher P. Scholtz) -- Speaking Reality. Language and Lived Experience in Practical Theology (Peter Meyer) -- Compassion as an Interruption of the Power of Inscription. A Contribution to Diaconal Studies (Trygve Wyller) -- Iconicity or the Creativity of Images (Hermann Deuser) -- Lived Religion in Lived Space (Sigurd Bergmann).

PART IV Practical Theology and the Challenge of Lived Religion -- The Act of Looking Is the Act of Creating: Phenomenology of Homily (Michael Thiele) -- Searching for a Construction of Meaning. Ritual, and Meditation as Necessary Part of Pastoral Work (Astrid Dinter) -- Structured Secondary Feedback and Feedback Partnerships (Matthias von Kriegstein) -- Church-Based Youth Work-Chilling Out, Belonging, and Learning (Erna Zonne) -- An Association of 'Others' (Gregory E. Thomas) -- PART V Conceptualizations of Religious Education and Lived Religion -- Bildung als Emanzipation. Neuere Bildungstheorien im Anschluss an Friedrich Schleiermacher (Elisabeth Gräb-Schmidt) -- Alienation and Identifi cation: Learning about Oneself and the Other (Wilna A. J. Meijer) -- Die Ironie der Bildung. Über ästhetische, ethische, religiöse Erfahrungen (Dietrich Zilleßen) -- Religious Education Contextualized. Culture, Tradition, Lived Religion, Life-World and Identity Formation (Siebren Miedema) -- The Emergence and Development of the Interpretive Approach (Robert Jackson) -- Neo-Aristotelianism and the Practice of Theorizing Religious Education (Geir Afdal) -- PART VI Religious Education Praxis: Lived Religion and the Classroom -- Dialogue and Confl ict in the Religious Education Classroom. Some Intermediate Refl ections from a European Research Project (Geir Skeie) -- Religious Education in the European Horizon. The Signifi cance of Inter-Cultural Learning (Wolfram Weiße) -- Learning Religion without Involving Experience? (Heid Leganger-Krogstad) -- Life-World Orientation in Religious Education (Horst F. Rupp) -- Biografi sche Arbeit in der Lehrerausbildung (Klaus-Dieter Köhler-Goigofski) -- Authors' Biographies -- Index.