Publications
For a current list of all publications by Akad. Dir. Klaus König, please refer to the KU publication server. On this website, we provide you with a short summary of his book publications.
Zwischen Religion und Religiosität: Ungebundene Religionskulturen in Religionsunterricht und kirchlicher Jugendarbeit - Erkundungen und Praxis, published by Uto Meier / Klaus König / Ulrich Kropač, St. Ottilien 2015.
Whoever wants to seriously get involved with religious education and pastoral will have to adapt to the world of youth, far from the desired cohesive confessionalism and open to new cultural constructions of meaning. Will this space in-between provide challenging room for the development of new religious competence? This problem situation raises some questions: - Which consequences does the changed approach of young people to religion entail in the context of new medial-esthetic formats for religious education? - Where can church youth work find its standing between individualized religiousness and a Christianity which is shaped by tradition? - What is the situation of young Muslims moving between religious individualization and identification with Islam? - How do youths in the new German federal states develop within the mainstream of secular religiousness? This volume addresses these questions with the help of the expertise of renowned researchers and prominent practitioners in the field.
Jugend Religion Religiosität Resultate, Probleme und Perspektiven der aktuellen Religiositätsforschung, published by Ulrich Kropač / Klaus König / Uto Meier, Regensburg 2012.
In most cases, the religiousness of today’s youth is no longer bound to a church but lived as individual religiosity. This evokes questions such as: - What does religiousness mean for young people? - How can empirical research be conducted on this topic? - In what relation do (Christian) religion and religiousness of the youth stand? Renowned authors from the field of sociology of religion, history, developmental psychology, philosophy of religion, ethnology, politics, theology and religious education have conducted research and engaged in interdisciplinary discourse on these topics for this volume.