Dialog zwischen den Religionen
Christian-Islamic Encounter and Documentation Centre (CIBEDO)
CIBEDO is the specialist centre of the German Bishops’ Conference with the task of fostering inter-religious dialogue between Christianity and Islam as well as encouraging the coexistence of Christians and Muslims. Its home page offers information on events, literature tips and an overview of dialogue topics present in the media.
Christian-Islamic Society
The Christian-Islamic Society (CIG) is a registered association dedicated to the promotion of understanding and dialogue between Christians and Muslims, Christian churches and Islamic societies. Its home page includes event tips and an extensive literature list on the topic of Christian-Islamic dialogue.
Coordination Council of the Associations of Christian-Islamic Dialogue
A great variety of dialogue initiatives are represented in the Coordination Council. Its home page gives information about the individual initiatives, its events and the lobby work of the Council.
German Coordinating Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (DKR)
DKR and its societies campaign for Judeo-Christian dialogue, stand up against anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism and foster a peaceful co-existence of peoples and religions. DKR’s home page offers tips regarding dialogue events, publications on the topic and information on the society’s history and work.
German-Israel Society
The German-Israel Society sees its major task in encouraging dialogue and reconciliation between Israel and Germany as well as communicating Israel’s position and needs in Germany. Its home page contains information on events and press reports.
Islam portal www.qantara.de
Qantara.de sees itself as a bridge to the Islamic world and provides information and discussions on politics, culture and social life in German, Arabic, Turkish and English.
Project partners are the Federal Centre for Political Education, the German international broadcasting service Deutsche Welle, Goethe Institut and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations.
Jewish Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum in Berlin invites its visitors to explore two millennia of German-Jewish history.
Informationsportale
Catholic News
Catholic News offers a wide-ranging information portal covering topical issues, discussions and news. Additionally, an interactive forum is available, as are a number of other services.
Information Platform Religion
The Information Platform Religion is a project of the Religious Studies Media and Information Service (REMID) in Marburg and supported by the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance and the German Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. With its great variety of up-to-date articles, background texts and links it offers a broad range of information on the world religions and new religions.
Islam Online
Islam Online gives information on communities and umbrella organisations, publishes reports on current topics from the Muslim point of view and provides information on daily Islamic life.
Münster Forum for Theology and Church
This internet portal offers a multitude of current dossiers, texts and discussion contributions on the topics of religion and the church from a Christian-Catholic point of view. In addition it includes an extensive link list to other institutions and theological topics.
Portal of the German Buddhist Union
This portal informs the reader about Buddhist life in Germany and Buddhist groups, Buddhism in general, literature and event tips.
Religious Studies Media and Information Service (REMID)
REMID, an association of professors of Religious Studies in Marburg, provides information on the topic of religion for the media, federal institutions and the interested public. REMID organizes its own events and projects, finds positions for speakers and experts, draws up documentations and has its own publications.
talmud.de: Jewish life in Germany
This page offers background information, platforms, literature and link tips on daily Jewish life.
Institutions
Catholic Church in Germany
The web page of the Catholic Church in Germany gives background information on faith and religion, activities and events, partner organisations and comments on everyday topics.
Central Council of Jews in Germany
As a corporation under public law, the principal task of the Central Council of Jews in Germany is to defend the interests of its members within society as a whole. The home page includes background information on Judaism as a religion, news for community members, literature and link tips as well as articles regarding the integration of East European immigrants.
Central Council of Muslims in Germany
The Central Council of Muslims in Germany is a leading association of the Islamic umbrella organisations in Germany. Its web page supplies information on the Central Council’s activities, tasks and objectives. Furthermore it offers a wide ranging portal for Muslim life in Germany including platforms, current news and link lists.
Centre of Research on Anti-Semitism
The Centre of Research on Anti-Semitism, located at the Technical University of Berlin, was founded in 1982 and is the only institution of its kind for interdisciplinary research and teaching on prejudices and its consequences such as anti-Semitism, antiziganism, xenophobia and racism.
Evangelical Central Office for Questions about World Views
The Evangelical Central Office for Questions about World Views (EZW) is the central office of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) for scientific study, documentation, information and advice concerning contemporary religious and ideological trends. Its task is to monitor and assess these trends. The website contains information about the institute's work, opinions and events.
Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD)
EKD is an amalgamation of all 23 regional Evangelical churches in Germany. The home page provides information on the Protestant faith, allows an insight into religious daily life and gives theological advice. It equally portrays the official Church with its institutions and work in the parishes.
Federal Ministry of the Interior – Churches and Religious Communities
The Website of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior provides information about the political objectives of the German Government in dealing with religious communities and Germany, and makes available data and information material about the individual groups. In addition, a detailed report is presented on the German Islam Conference.
German Bishops’ Conference
The German Bishops’ Conference is an amalgamation of the bishops from all German dioceses. With its up-to-date reports, presentations of persons and competences as well as statistics, the home page gives an insight into the official Catholic Church.
International Movement “We Are Church”
This movement was founded in Austria in 1995 and aims to reform the Catholic Church. “We are Church” endeavours to strengthen the concept of community life and the extent to which believers have a say in matters. Its web page provides information on the views, projects and activities of the movement.
Tibetan Centre
The Tibetan Centre runs seminars, study courses and meditation exercises to teach about Tibetan Buddhism. In addition, it publishes information about the situation in Tibet and organizes aid programmes for Tibetan refugees and Buddhists living in Tibet.
Turkish Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB)
The Turkish Islamic Union for Religious Affairs Reg. Assoc. aims to support the religious practice and social and cultural integration of its members thanks to voluntary involvement. The web page provides information on Islam, events and contains a presentation of the Union’s publications.
World Council of Churches
The World Council of Churches is an amalgamation of 340 churches worldwide and serves as a communication platform with the goal of Christian unity. The web page gives an insight into the organisation and the objectives of the ecumenical World Council of Churches. In addition it includes current news, literature and link tips as well as multimedia documentations on the topic.
Religious Research
Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO)
ZMO was established in 1996 as a non-university Humanities centre working in the field of historical cultural and social sciences. The Centre’s funding provider is the Society of Humanities Centres in Berlin. ZMO’s research focuses on Islamic societies in the Middle East, Africa and South and South-East Asia.
Centre for Religious Studies (CRS)
The CRS was established in 2002 by the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster in co-operation with the Ministry of Schools, Science and Research. The Centre for Religious Studies is tasked with setting a framework for religious studies, primarily in the fields of Islam, Orthodox Christianity and Judaism. In particular, it develops courses to qualify teachers to give Orthodox and Islamic religious instruction at state schools.
German Liturgical Institute
The German Liturgical Institute is a centre of work and studies with the task of promoting the church service of the Catholic Church in Germany and the German-speaking area. The institute sees itself acting in the capacity as an interface between academic theology and liturgical practice, and between church institutions and parishes.
German National Ethics Council
Following the Federal Government's decision of 2 May 2001, the National Ethics Council was set up on 8 June 2001 as a national forum for dialogue on ethical issues in the life sciences. It is intended to be the central organ for interdisciplinary discourse between Natural Sciences, Medicine, Theology and Philosophy, and the social and legal sciences, and to express views on ethical issues relating to new developments in the field of life sciences and on their consequences for the individual and society.
German Society of Religious Philosophy
The German Society of Religious Philosophy was founded in 1999 as a non-profit-making organization. The Society’s objective is to promote and intensify research and discussion on philosophy of religion in the German-speaking world. It does not represent a certain doctrine but interprets religious philosophy as a critical philosophic debate about all factual issues, questions of meaning and importance with regard to the sphere of religions.
GIGA – German Institute for Middle East Studies (DOI)
The German Institute for Middle East Studies is a non-university, publicly funded research institute which focuses on the contemporary political, economic and social developments in the North African and Middle East regions.
Institute for the Research of Contemporary Religious Culture (IrG)
Founded in 1996, the Institute for the Research of Contemporary Religious Culture (IrG) sees itself in the role of contributing towards the analysis of contemporary religious culture via interdisciplinary co-operation.
Interdisciplinary Forum on Religion (IFR)
The Interdisciplinary Forum on Religion (IFR) was founded in 2004 and is a central institution of the University of Erfurt comprising some 30 professors and 65 young academics from all faculties of the university and from the Max Weber Centre.
Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies
Teaching and research at the Max Weber Centre began in 1998. It is a faculty-like central institution of the University of Erfurt where research and teaching is conducted in the following subjects: Sociology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Law, Economics and History.
Youth and Church Research Unit
The Youth and Church Research Unit is affiliated to the Chair for Practical Theology of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. The work of the Youth and Research Unit aims to describe the basic conditions in which the youth of today live and to apply them to the relationship between young people and church and religion.
Events and Projects
German Protestant Kirchentag (Church Day)
For five days around 100,000 Protestant lay Christians from all over Germany will be gathering at the German Protestant Kirchentag in order to discuss anew their role as Christians in encounters with representatives from the world of politics, the economy, culture, from the official Church, and with artists and intellectuals.
2010 Ecumenical Church Day
Following the first Ecumenical Church Day in Berlin in 2003, Christians of different denominations will be meeting again in Munich in 2010 to jointly profess their faith and, through encounters and discussions, define their responsibility for the future of the Church and the world.
Joint Statement on the Social and Economic Situation by Churches in Germany
Ten years ago, the two main churches in Germany published a joint statement on the social and economic situation. In this statement, they rejected the liberal market tendencies in Germany and called for the Federal Government of the time to initiate far-reaching reforms. The website contains the original statement and a review of the developments of the past ten years.
“Mosque Open Day”
Every year on 3rd October up to 1000 mosques all over Germany open their gates to mark “Mosque Open Day”. With mosque tours, podium discussions, exhibitions, bookstalls and traditional events, the mosque communities seek to make contact with their fellow citizens.
World Youth Day
The World Youth Day unites young Catholics from all over the world who wish to experience their faith with others. The web page has information on the objectives and the organization of the World Youth Day and reports on future World Youth Days and the present state of the preparations.
