Religious education (RE) in Germany is undergoing change. Denominational RE is increasingly being put into question. New, cross-denominational and interreligious forms are additionally or even alternatively sought. School education as such is also being further developed. According to the concept of “resonance pedagogy” (H. Rosa), education is not only about the purely instrumental appropriation of the world by the individual, but also about building a relationship to the world through which the individual himself is “transformed”. A renewed understanding of religious education can tie in with this. Religion is a form of existential turning to a counterpart who is conceived as transcendental. Religion includes sacred texts, rituals, spaces, times, actions, verbal and nonverbal expressions. Any religious content is a cultural expression and has thus the potential to be productively accessed also in a secular-existential way. RE brings religious content into play in its potential for one’s own quest for meaning, self-understanding, development of one’s own power of judgement, and one’s relationship with the world. Thus, RE can fill an important role at school for all pupils. Key to this is a “bilingual religious education” that addresses both, “religious” and “secular language”.