In September 2016, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education (BMB) established a Special Research Area ‚Interreligiosity’ at the Private University College for Teacher Education Vienna/Krems (KPH). The Research Area is supposed to provide an empirical, context-sensitive basis for enhancing interreligious competence in teacher education.

 

 

During the summer term, Magistra Laura Hoffman worked as visiting scholar at the KPH Vienna / Lower Austria.

Ms Hoffman is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) with a thesis on ‘the worldviews and visions of the future held by…

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Prof. Dr. Mira Sonntag will be visiting the KPH in April and May 2026. She was officially welcomed today by Vice Rector Mag. Dr. Thomas Plotz and Ms.…

Prof. Dr. Mira Sonntag is a professor of Asian Christianity in the Department of Christian Studies at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan).

She is…

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The SIR - Special Research Focus on 'Interreligiosity' is once again organizing a Research Lab.

The Research Lab is a forum for collegial discussion of current research projects and the collaborative analysis of empirical data. In its current…

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This semester, the SIR – Special Research Area ‘Interreligiosity’ is organising – in collaboration with the 'Expert Group on the Diversity of…

The Discourse-Series is designed for the joint reading and discussion of academic texts.

The organisers ask those interested to joint the series:

  • to…
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Over the past two days, Prof. Dr. Simone Sinn was a guest at the Special Research Area “Interreligiosity” at the invitation of HS Prof. Dr. Karsten…

Professor Simone Sinn holds the Chair of Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology (the University of…

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On 10 October 2025, the Rectorate of the KPH Vienna/Lower Austria decided to change the denomination of the professorship of HS Prof. Dr. Karsten…

In September 2016, the professorship of HS-Prof. Dr. Karsten Lehmann was established with the designation “Interreligiosity”. This designation made it…

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