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School Prayers
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[German Version]

I. Practical Theology

The term school prayers refers primarily to prayers at the beginning or end of the school day or during breaks, along with prayers during religious education classes. In German public schools today – unlike the period of the denominational primary schools (into the 1960s) and also unlike in England, for example – such prayers are a marginal phenomenon. Scattered attempts to reintroduced school prayers like that of the Bavarian government in 1987 (…

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Schröder, Bernd and Link, Christoph, “School Prayers”, in: Religion Past and Present. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_COM_024760>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013



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