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Dr. Katty Nöllenburg presents parts of her dissertation at the seventh annual Motra conference

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Dr. Katty Nöllenburg gave a presentation on her dissertation "Beten im Spannungsfeld der säkularen Schule: Eine empirische Untersuchung zur Gebetspraxis muslimischer Schüler*innen" at the seventh Motra annual conference at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden on March 5.

Dr. Katty Nöllenburg presented the topic of her dissertation in a lecture in Panel Y (Prevention III Religious Practice, Prevention of Radicalization and Educational Contexts of Action).

This is what Panel Y is about:

How can religious practice, educational work and prevention approaches be brought together in dealing with Islamism in everyday educational and social spaces? This panel sheds light on different perspectives on the prevention of Islamism - from school negotiation processes around religious practice to empirically determined needs of educational professionals and innovative approaches to digital street work. The contributions show how prevention can be shaped between schools, social work and digital environments and what challenges arise in practice.

This is what the lecture is about:

Katty Nöllenburg has researched mosque-socialized young people with a desire to pray on their ways of thinking and acting when prayer times overlap with school hours. Many are inhibited and never pray during school hours. Many have found different ways to pray during school hours: from secretly to openly, alone or in community, inside or outside the school grounds. All of them experience a construction of difference based on the Christian-secular dominant society and the feeling that they are not allowed to be religious and German at the same time. The typology developed is based on Norbert Elias' 'Established and Outsiders' (2020) and offers interesting discussion points for the prevention of radicalization, strengthening democracy and identity formation.

The aim of the annual MOTRA conferences is to promote the transfer of knowledge and exchange of experience between science, politics and practice. The motra-k sees itself as an open forum for presenting contributions from radicalization research and prevention, exchanging ideas and networking individuals and institutions. Further information on the program and the motra forum.

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