Universität Wien FIND

Master Religious Studies (800)

Compulsory Modules (100 ECTS)

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

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

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

010062 VO Lecture Afroamerican Religions

010066 VO The Psychedelic Movement: History, Social Structures, and Teachings

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

2. Christianity

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

4. Religions of Indian Origin

5. East-Asian Religions

6. Historical Religions

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

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