The Department of Alevi Theology was established at the University of Education in Weingarten in the South of Germany in the year 2013. Its inauguration aimed to provide an academic education for teachers of Alevi Religious Education, and, to foster their didactical competence, primarily within the German setting. Furthermore, to this day, the department provides the Alevi community with a centre of theological reflection on its history, communal identity, rich theological tradition and liturgical practice. This paper gives a brief account of the stages through which this course of studies developed and the societal and geographic factors which impact on enrollment patterns. Attention is, however, also devoted to the interaction of theological ideas developed by scholars of the Alevi department with the positions of other theologies studied at the institution. Alevi ethics, liturgical studies, theology of human development, the question of the divine, theories and analyses of communal structures are loci of comparative Alevi-Christian theological reflection. The emergence of an interreligious, theological conversation, which learns from, and with, each other, is presented, in this instance, from the perspective of a neighbouring (Christian) theologian. Hillary Mooney