Dr. Dr. Mariusz Chrostowski

Education

• 2008-2014 Master's Degree in Theology at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Poland)
• 2014-2017 Postgraduate Studies in Practical Theology at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (Poland)
• 2017-2018 Postgraduate Studies in Childcare and Education at the Pawel Wlodkowic University in Plock (Poland)
• 2018-2020 Doctoral Studies at the Chair of Chair of Didactics of Religion, Catechetics, and Religious Education at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• 2018-2022 Doctoral Studies at the Chair of Social and Health Pedagogy at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• 2019-2020 Postgraduate Studies in Special Education - Education and Rehabilitation of People with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome at the Pawel Wlodkowic University in Plock (Poland)
• 2019-2020 Postgraduate Studies in Special Education - Education and Rehabilitation of People with Intellectual Disabilities (Oligophrenopedia) at the Pawel Wlodkowic University in Plock (Poland)
• 2022-2023 Postgraduate Studies of Social Work with People with Disabilities and with Elderly People at the College for Social Sciences in Lublin
• Since 2023 Habilitation at the Chair of Didactics of Religious Education, Catechetics and Religious Education at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Professional experience in schools and in the Church

• 2014-2016 Religion Teacher in High School and Comprehensive School in Wyszkow (Poland)
• 2015 Promotion to Contract Teacher (Poland)
• 2017 Second Professional Service Exam
• 2014-2023 Pastoral Work in the Diocese of Łomża (Poland) and in the Diocese of Eichstätt (Germany)
• Since 05.2023 Part-time Work as a Religion Teacher 

Academic career

• 2019 Part-time Student Assistant at the Chair of Social Education at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Collaboration on a Study and Empirical Survey; Support of the Chair)
• 2020 Part-time Student Assistant at the Chair of Social Pedagogy at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Library and Internet Research in Preparation for "Starting a Third-party Funded Project" as well as Methodical Support and Data Management)
• Since 2022 Research Assistant at the Chair for Didactics of Religious Studies, for Catechetics and Religious Education at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Summer Semester 2025  Chair of Religious Education and Catechesis at the Faculty of Theology of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg: Acting Professorship

A list of Dr Chrostowski's publications is available on the KU publication server and in the ResearchGate database.

Wintersemester:

• „Liturgie und Bildung“ (Übung)
• „Grundfragen des gottesdienstlichen und bildenden Handelns der Kirche“ (Übung)
• Interkulturelles und interreligiöses Lernen

Sommersemester: 

• „Christwerden in Kultur und Gesellschaft“ (Seminar)
• „Pastorale Praxis und religiöses Lernen“ (Übung)
• „Rechtsextreme Phänomene als Herausforderung für Gesellschaft und Bildung“ (Seminar)

Memberships:

• Member of the Association of Scholars in Catholic Religious Education and Catechetics (AKRK)
• Member of the Conference of Religious Educators at Bavarian Universities (KRBU)
• Member of the Polish Education Research Association  (PTP)
• Member of the Polish Theological Society (PTT)
• Associate Member of the KU Center for Religion, Church and Society in Transformation (ZRKG)
• Member of the Network for Theology & Artificial Intelligence

Committee work:

• Voting member of the Faculty Council of the Theological Faculty of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Spokesperson of the Academic Staff of the KRBU (Conference of Religious Educators at Bavarian Universities)

27.10.2021 - Religionspädagogische und pastorale Impulse deutscher Schulpastoral für ein schulpastorales Modell in Polen, guest lecture for students and staff of the Faculty of Family Science at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. 

7.06.2022 - Populismus als Herausforderung für religiöse Bildung, guest lecture for students and staff of the Faculty of Family Sciences at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. 

15.12.2022 - Idea of school pastoral care as an opportunity for humanization of Polish school, online lecture at "International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference in the OSOBA series" at Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw.

08.09.2023 - Rechtspopulismus als Herausforderung für den Religionsunterricht in Deutschland und Polen: Eine vergleichende Analyse, Lecture at the Summer School on "Topoi and Networks of the Religious Right" at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

26.10.2023 - Country Report: Religious Education and Citizenship Education in Poland, Lecture at an international conference on "The Intersection of Religious and Citizenship Education in Europe" at the Chair of Catholic Theology with a focus on didactics of religion at the Technical University of Dortmund

17.04.2024 - RoboCop und Darth Vader als ‚Krone der Schöpfung‘?! – Zu anthropologischen, ethischen und theologischen Aspekten der Künstlichen Intelligenz als Herausforderung für den Religionsunterricht, Lecture at the Pedagogical-Theological Institute of the Protestant Church in Rhineland

14.06.2024 - Challenges and Perspectives for Religious Education in Germany - Lecture at an international catechetical-sociological conference on "Religious Education of Youth. Challenges and Perspectives" at the Catholic University of John Paul II in Lublin

20.09.2024 - Religionsdidaktik vor den Herausforderungen wachsender Konfessionslosigkeit: Deutschland und Polen im Vergleich – "Round Table" at the annual conference of the AKRK "Religious education in its areas of tension – an assessment of the current situation" in Leitershofen (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kropač)