Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Naurath holds the chair of Protestant Theology – Religious Education and Religious Education Didactics at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Augsburg (Germany). Peace education has been a focus of her work as shown in her second book “With Feeling against Violence. Compassion as the Key to Ethical Education”. Furthermor she has founded the Peace Education Center for Interreligious Education at the University of Augsburg and focuses on interreligious learning in research, teaching and knowledge transfer.
Professor Naurath’s current research interest is the role of religious traditions in addressing the climate crisis, with a particular focus on the potential of religious actors to advance climate justice.
Since November 2023, she has held the position of project manager in the International ErasmusPlus project (cooperation partnership) entitled ‘Facing Global Challenges. Climate protection, climate resilience and climate justice in interreligious education and teacher training’ (https://religions4ecology.org). Since January 2025 she works a member of the European Christian Ecotheology Research Network (ECErN).
Last Publications:
- Naurath, Elisabeth (2025): Emotion-orientated religious didactics. In: Bernhard Grümme, Manfred L. Pirner (Hg.): Innovative approaches to religious education. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, S. 193-206
- Naurath, Elisabeth (2025): Klima und Frieden: Verantwortung und Potential religiöser und interreligiöser Bildung. In: Uta Heil, Annette Schellenberg-Lagler (Hg.): Krieg und Frieden. Göttingen: Brill / V&R unipress (Wiener Jahrbuch für Theologie; 15/2025), S. 233-244.
- Naurath, Elisabeth (2024): Religiöse Kompetenzen in der Konfliktvermittlung und –mediation. In: Ines-Jacqueline Werkner (Hg.): Handbuch Religion in Konflikten und Friedensprozessen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 1259-1270.