1.10 Master Degree Programme Religious Studies

1. Required Modules

M01: Key Issues in the History of Religion

1. Judaism

• 060005 VO History, Culture, Literature and Religion from the Modern to the Contemporary Period 2
• 060007 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction in Jewish History, Religion and Literature from the Antique Period until Today

2. Christianity

• 010027 VO Basic Course Patrology
• 010065 VO Introduction to Eastern Churches: Oriental-Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches
• 010094 VO Lecture on Key Issues in History of Religion

3. Islam

4. Religions of Indian Origin

5. East-Asian Religions

6. Historical Religions

• 140119 VO The Empire of the Black Pharaohs: Gods and Temples of the Meroites

7. Others

• 010061 VO Ecstasy, Rebellion and Religion: The Alternative Religious Culture of Psychedelia
• 010324 VO [ en ] Introduction to Afro-American Religions

M02: Special Courses in History of Religion

1. Judaism

• 060032 SE Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity, part 1
• 490157 SE M6: Interreligious and Intercultural Learning - Einführung in die jüdische Theologie

2. Christianity

• 010005 FS [ en ] The relationship between Church and State in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
• 010046 SE Orthodoxy and Everyday Life Through the Prism of Byzantine Liturgical Books
• 010057 SE Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immac. Heart of Mary in the trad. of the Church
• 010098 SE Asceticism in Early Syriac Christianity
• 010320 SE Liturgical Rituals in Film

3. Islam

4. Religions of Indian Origin

5. East-Asian Religions

• 010072 VU [ en ] Confucianism
• 010078 VU Japanese New Religions

6. Historical Religions

7. Others

M03: Comparative Religion

• 010087 VO [ en ] Religion at Ground Zero: Theological Responses to Times of Crisis

M04: Comparative Religion Applied

• 010100 SE The New Forms of Religious Life: Religious Studies and Sociological Approaches
• 010112 SE Religions and Trans-Sex/Gender

M05: Religion and Society

• 010093 SE Introduction to Sociology of Religion

M06: Psychology of Religion

• 010079 VO Psychology of Religion

M07: Additional Subject Areas

1. Missiology, Theology of Religion

2. Political Dimensions of Religions

• 010087 VO [ en ] Religion at Ground Zero: Theological Responses to Times of Crisis

3. Didactics of Religions

4. Aesthetics of Religions

5. Anthropology of Religion

• 010324 VO [ en ] Introduction to Afro-American Religions

6. Philosophy of Religion

7. Law of Religions

• 010025 VO Basic Course Canon Law I
• 010026 VO The legal order of institutes of consecrates life and societies of apostolic life

M08: Reading Course: Sacred Texts

• 010018 PS Exegetical methods
• 010081 UE Sufism: Texts from the Islamic-Mystical Tradition
• 060032 SE Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretation in Antiquity, part 1
• 090123 UE Holiness in Byzantium - Types of Saints in hagiographical Literature
• 140185 SE Tradidtions of Poetry in the Bhakti Movement

M09: Recent Research Approaches

• 010100 SE The New Forms of Religious Life: Religious Studies and Sociological Approaches
• 010112 SE Religions and Trans-Sex/Gender

M10: Applied Study of Religion

• 010062 SE Religion in Focus: Naikan
• 010084 EX Religion in Vienna

2. Elective Modules

M12: Relevant Source Language

M13: Advanced Source Language

M14: Thesis Supervision

• 360008 PR [ en ] Research Seminar

M15: Specialisation: History of Religion

• 010026 VO The legal order of institutes of consecrates life and societies of apostolic life
• 010072 VU [ en ] Confucianism
• 010078 VU Japanese New Religions

M16: Specialisation: Comparative Religion

• 010100 SE The New Forms of Religious Life: Religious Studies and Sociological Approaches
• 010112 SE Religions and Trans-Sex/Gender

M17: Specialisation: Methods of Empirical Research

M18: Advanced History of Religion

M19: Advanced Methodology

• 010100 SE The New Forms of Religious Life: Religious Studies and Sociological Approaches
• 010112 SE Religions and Trans-Sex/Gender

M20: Advanced Comparative Religion

• 010100 SE The New Forms of Religious Life: Religious Studies and Sociological Approaches
• 010112 SE Religions and Trans-Sex/Gender

M21: Advanced Subject Area

• 010035 VU Theory of Religious Education - General subject didactics
• 010051 FS State, Religion and Civil Society. Hegels Philosophy of Right
• 010097 SE Participation or consultation in the Church?
• 030072 KU Freedom of Religion and Belief in Austria
• 030112 SE Law of the Christian East. Orthodox Church in Europe - - current and historic legal issues (for diploma and doctoral students)
• 030263 KU [ en ] From the protection of persecuted co-religionist to the protection of universal human rights - Theory and practice of humanitarian interventions in historcial perspective
• 030425 SE Seminar on Legal Philosophy and Religious Law: Human Rights - Women´s Rights - Islam and Women's Rights (for undergraduate and graduate students)

M22: Advanced Reading