Elective Modules (20 ECTS)

M12: Relevant Source Language (10 ECTS)

M13: Advanced Source Language (10 ECTS)

M14: Thesis Supervision (10 ECTS)

• 360008 PR [ en ] Research Seminar

M15: Specialisation: History of Religion (10 ECTS)

• 010089 SE "City of God" - On the relationship between religion- city- migration
• 010050 VO [ en ] Religions of Greek and Roman Antiquity
• 010091 VO Introducing East Asian Religions
• 010058 VU [ en ] Introducing East Asian New Religious Movements
• 150014 VO Religion in Japan
• 010055 VO Alternative Forms of Religion II: From the Mid-19th Century to the Present
• 010104 SE Religion in Focus: Eckankar
• 010115 VU The Theosophical Society
• 010116 VU [ en ] Introduction to Mesoamerican Religions

M16: Specialisation: Comparative Religion (10 ECTS)

• 010087 VO Religions and Gender
• 010098 VO [ en ] Becoming God: Deification from Antiquity to the Present
• 010100 SE Ideas of Reincarnation: Past and Present

M17: Specialisation: Methods of Empirical Research (10 ECTS)

• 010088 VO Introduction to the Psychology of Religion
• 010092 SE Key Works in the Sociology of Religion
• 010094 VO [ en ] Introducing East Asian Religious Arts
• 010107 SE Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

M18: Advanced History of Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010089 SE "City of God" - On the relationship between religion- city- migration
• 010104 SE Religion in Focus: Eckankar
• 140246 PS Tibetan Madhyamaka: Central Ideas, Texts, and Figures

M19: Advanced Methodology (5 ECTS)

• 010103 SE Contemporary Issues in the Study of Esotericism
• 020017 SE Interreligious Dialogue in austria in Comarative Perspective - Seminar zu einem Thema der systematisch-vergleichenden Religionswissenschaften
• 140090 KU Guided Reading - Religion and Religious Change in West African Movies: Focus Sahel

M20: Advanced Comparative Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010100 SE Ideas of Reincarnation: Past and Present
• 010128 SE Is God a Feminist? Women´s Rights and Religion

M21: Advanced Subject Area (5 ECTS)

• 010008 SE Liturgical Rites Surrounding Illness and Death
• 010013 SE [ en ] The Relationship between Church and State from Antiquity to the Modern Period
• 010040 VU Theory of Religious Education
• 010106 SE Traces of the Sacred in Contemporary Art
• 030072 KU Freedom of Religion and Belief in Austria
• 030112 SE Law of the Christian East - European Orthodoxy 30 years after turn (for diploma and doctoral students)
• 030194 KU Islam in Europe - (Issues from) Legal history and contemporory legal developments
• 030263 KU [ en ] From the protection of persecuted co-religionists 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 (5 ECTS)

• 010090 SE The Book of Mormon
• 010092 SE Key Works in the Sociology of Religion