Religionswissenschaft and the challenge of multi-religious student groups.

Multi-religious student groups pose challenges to Religious Studies programmes. This essay proposes a pedagogical method for tackling feelings of exclusion among students who do not share the secular post-Judeo-Christian worldview that is often taken for granted in European curricula. It argues that the diverse backgrounds of the students can be made an asset rather than a problem if principles of self-contextualisation, non-confessionalism, perspectivism and equal treatment of different traditions are articulated and brought to the fore as vital parts of studying Religionswissenschaft at the undergraduate level. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]