Ongoing research projects:

• Discrimination-critical and difference-sensitive religious education (focus on anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim racism).
• Martin Luther King in religious education (Ute Beyer-Henneberger)

Dissertation projects:

• The thematisation of the Shoah in textbooks for religious education as a factor in the culture of remembrance (Rebecca Hedenkamp)
• The Ambivalent Image of God in the Flood Narrative in Children's Bibles - Children's Theological Reinterpretations in the Multidimensional Balancing Act between Disciplines and Receptions (Nina Lissner)
• Tolerance Didactics - A Critical Examination of "Tolerance" as a Discourse Figure and Concept in Religious Education as well as a Further Development of Existing Approaches to Promoting the Ability for Pluralism in Religious Education (Friederike Schulze-Marmeling)
• Images of Islam and their Reception in Religious Education - Analyses and Reflections of Different Framings by Textbook Authors and Learners (Sascha Wilts)

Completed research projects:

• Religious Education and Related Subjects in Russia (Joachim Willems), 2003-2006.
• Interreligious competence (Joachim Willems), 2003-2010.
• Dealing with religious diversity among Christian, Muslim and non-religious young people (DFG-funded research project; proposal and direction: Joachim Willems; collaboration: Friederike Schulze-Marmeling), 2012-2019.

Dissertations:

• Ute Beyer-Henneberger: Supervision and Burnout Prophylaxis in Pastoral and School Occupational Fields (published 2016).

• Religious education and related subjects in Russia (Joachim Willems), 2003-2006.
• Interreligious competence (Joachim Willems), 2003-2010.
• How Christian, Muslim and non-religious young people deal with religious diversity (DFG-funded research project; application and management: Joachim Willems; collaboration: Friederike Schulze-Marmeling), 2012-2019.

Dissertations

• Ute Beyer-Henneberger: Supervision and burnout prevention in pastoral and school-based professional fields (published in 2016).