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Germany Plans University Level Programs To Train Muslim Religious Leaders

By Howard M. Friedman

Today's Chronicle of Higher Education reports on efforts launched in Germany to integrate its large, mostly-Turkish, Muslim population. A key part of the plan is to create a generation of German-trained imams. The German Council of Science and Humanities is creating a group of academic institutes at state-financed colleges to critically examine Islamic theology and teach it in a German university setting to future imams, male and female religious teachers, public intellectuals, scholars and faith-based social workers. The German Muslim community will have a substantial voice in the curriculum and management of the institutes.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).