Master Religious Studies (800)

Compulsory Modules (100 ECTS)

M01: Key Issues in the History of Religion (9 ECTS)

1. Judaism

2. Christianity

• 010006 VO Basic Course Church History I - The first christian millenium
• 010065 VO Introduction to the Eastern Churches - Focus: Oriental and Eastern Catholic Churches
• 010223 VO Basic Course Church History II - The second millenium of Christianity

3. Islam

• 020023 VO Introduction to Islam - History of Islam from Muhammad to the epoch of the Abbasides

4. Religions of Indian Origin

5. East-Asian Religions

6. Historical Religions

• 060053 VO Egyptian Religion
• 141047 VO Religious history of the Middle East prior to the advent of Islam

7. Others

• 010062 VO Lecture Afroamerican Religions
• 010066 VO The Psychedelic Movement: History, Social Structures, and Teachings

M02: Special Courses in History of Religion (9 ECTS)

1. Judaism

2. Christianity

3. Islam

• 010071 SE [ en ] Modern Islam: Religious Reformism on Society and Politics

4. Religions of Indian Origin

5. East-Asian Religions

6. Historical Religions

7. Others

• 010078 VU Magic: History, Manifestations, Theories

M03: Comparative Religion (9 ECTS)

• 010063 VO Sacrificial Rites in Religions

M04: Comparative Religion Applied (5 ECTS)

• 010069 SE Religions and Sexual Violence in Comparative Perspective
• 010114 SE Millenarianism

M05: Religion and Society (5 ECTS)

• 010072 SE Empirical Research on Religion: Employing Social-scientfic Methods

M06: Psychology of Religion (7 ECTS)

• 010073 SE Selected Chapters of Psychology of Religion

M07: Additional Subject Areas (6 ECTS)

1. Missiology, Theology of Religion

• 010067 VO Special Pastoral Theologies: Interfaith Dialogue

2. Political Dimensions of Religions

3. Didactics of Religions

4. Aesthetics of Religions

• 080063 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to Iconography

5. Anthropology of Religion

• 010062 VO Lecture Afroamerican Religions

6. Philosophy of Religion

• 010092 VO Classical Writers of Philosophy of Religion

7. Law of Religions

• 010060 VO Advanced Course Canon Law II - The Constitution of the Church
• 030010 KU The legal position of Islam in Austria
• 030134 VO Legal Position of religious communities in Austria - Zur Rechtsstellung der Religionsgemeinschaften in Österreich

M08: Reading Course: Sacred Texts (8 ECTS)

• 010018 PS Exegetical methods
• 010100 SE [ en ] Reading Religion

M09: Recent Research Approaches (5 ECTS)

• 010103 SE Religion and Politics in Austria: Basics and Current Issues
• 010114 SE Millenarianism

M10: Applied Study of Religion (7 ECTS)

• 010116 EX Female Religious Orders in Vienna

Elective Modules (20 ECTS)

M12: Relevant Source Language (10 ECTS)

M13: Advanced Source Language (10 ECTS)

M14: Thesis Supervision (10 ECTS)

• 360012 PR [ en ] Research Seminar

M15: Specialisation: History of Religion (10 ECTS)

• 010006 VO Basic Course Church History I - The first christian millenium
• 010071 SE [ en ] Modern Islam: Religious Reformism on Society and Politics
• 010078 VU Magic: History, Manifestations, Theories
• 010089 SE Nothing New in Europe? Perspective on Contemporary anti-Semitism
• 142125 PS [ en ] The non-Buddhist religions of Tibet
• 142165 PS History of Buddhism in Tibet
• 143385 VO Religious Change and Fundamentalism in Islamic Regions in Africa and Asia

M16: Specialisation: Comparative Religion (10 ECTS)

• 010063 VO Sacrificial Rites in Religions
• 010069 SE Religions and Sexual Violence in Comparative Perspective
• 010114 SE Millenarianism

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

• 010072 SE Empirical Research on Religion: Employing Social-scientfic Methods

M18: Advanced History of Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010071 SE [ en ] Modern Islam: Religious Reformism on Society and Politics
• 010089 SE Nothing New in Europe? Perspective on Contemporary anti-Semitism
• 010103 SE Religion and Politics in Austria: Basics and Current Issues
• 142125 PS [ en ] The non-Buddhist religions of Tibet
• 142165 PS History of Buddhism in Tibet

M19: Advanced Methodology (5 ECTS)

• 010114 SE Millenarianism

M20: Advanced Comparative Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010069 SE Religions and Sexual Violence in Comparative Perspective
• 010114 SE Millenarianism

M21: Advanced Subject Area (5 ECTS)

• 010010 SE "Visible Signs of an Invisible Reality": Liturgical Symbols - still appropriate today?
• 010013 SE Gregory the Great (†604) : Pope and Theologian at the Turn from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
• 010072 SE Empirical Research on Religion: Employing Social-scientfic Methods
• 010073 SE Selected Chapters of Psychology of Religion
• 010097 SE Misunderstood compassion? About the meaning and limits of Church penal law
• 010113 SE [ en ] Social Anthropology of Religion
• 030035 KU Freedom of Religion and Belief in Europe
• 030112 SE Law of the Christian East - Orthodox church(es) in Austria (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)

• 010100 SE [ en ] Reading Religion
• 142312 UE Medicine für the healthy? Rasayana in the Carakasamhita