This book is about international knowledge transfer in religious education as an academic
discipline at the same time though it is related to the school Subject of RE. Its aim is to
strengthen the awareness of the need for international cooperation in the field of religious
education in general and especially for clarifying the role of knowledge in this kind of
cooperation. The contributions discuss a number of issues among others related to the validity
and transferability of knowledge in religious education. Thus the book takes up a topic which
so far has remained implicit and therefore also untreated. This approach implies a whole
spectrum of new methodological and epistemological problems. Some crucial questions that are
discussed in the chapters from different national contexts are: - How can the national and the
international context be Productively connected to each other? - Which concept or understanding
of 'international' should be used when it comes to the transfer of knowledge? - What exactly is
meant by 'knowledge' in religious education? - What does 'transfer' mean in this context? The
scope of the book is an invitation to other colleagues to take part in and to continue the
discussion.
