Elective Modules (20 ECTS)

M12: Relevant Source Language (10 ECTS)

M13: Advanced Source Language (10 ECTS)

M14: Thesis Supervision (10 ECTS)

M15: Specialisation: History of Religion (10 ECTS)

• 010050 VO [ en ] Religions of Greek and Roman Antiquity
• 010051 VO [ en ] Contemporary Judaism
• 010112 VU Religion under National Socialism
• 010114 VU Germanic Religion(s)
• 010115 VU [ en ] Buddhism in Central Asia
• 020050 SE Seminar: Scientific Study of Religions - Christologie, Kirchengeschichte, Theologie, Liturgie, moderne Entwicklungen
• 060017 VO ( OV STEOP ) Introduction to Jewish Cultural History
• 060025 VO History of Rabbinical Literature and Culture
• 060028 VO The Kabbalah, the World of Jewish mysticism and magic
• 090013 VO Minoan and Mycenaean Religion
• 142003 UE Culture and Religion in the Western Himalayas
• 142201 VO [ en ] Introduction to Saivism: from Veda to Tantra
• 143119 VO In the Empire of the Black Pharaohs: Gods and Temples of the Meroites
• 144034 SE Gender Studies and Islam
• 240031 VO Cargo Cults and revitalisation moevements in Oceania (3.3.5)

M16: Specialisation: Comparative Religion (10 ECTS)

• 010041 VO [ en ] Becoming God: Deification from Antiquity to the Present
• 010043 VO Coming of Age in Religious Traditions - Concepts of Childhood, Youth and Adulthood in Comparison
• 010113 SE New Skin for the Old Mythology - Mythological Motifs in Fairy-Tales, Folklore and Popular Culture

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

• 010100 SE Key Works in the Sociology of Religion

M18: Advanced History of Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010112 VU Religion under National Socialism
• 010114 VU Germanic Religion(s)
• 020050 SE Seminar: Scientific Study of Religions - Christologie, Kirchengeschichte, Theologie, Liturgie, moderne Entwicklungen
• 142003 UE Culture and Religion in the Western Himalayas
• 144034 SE Gender Studies and Islam

M19: Advanced Methodology (5 ECTS)

M20: Advanced Comparative Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010113 SE New Skin for the Old Mythology - Mythological Motifs in Fairy-Tales, Folklore and Popular Culture

M21: Advanced Subject Area (5 ECTS)

• 010008 SE Liturgy on the silverscreen
• 010040 VU Theory of Religious Education
• 010070 SE "Adversus Iudaeos." The Church and the Jews in the Middle Ages
• 010097 SE You shall not fail (actually) "Secret" processes in the Church?
• 010106 SE Contexts of Sacral Music
• 030072 KU Freedom of Religion and Belief in Austria
• 030112 SE Law of the Christian East - Religion, Culture and Art (for diploma and doctoral students)
• 030194 KU Islam in Europe - (Issues from) Legal history and contemporory legal developments
• 030425 SE Seminar on Legal Philosophy and Religious Law: Human Rights - Women´s Rights - Islam and Women's Rights (for undergraduate and graduate students)
• 180049 PS Nagarjuna: mind, world, and language
• 180085 SE Philosophy of Religion
• 240035 VS Anthropology of religious movements (3.3.5)

M22: Advanced Reading (5 ECTS)

• 010100 SE Key Works in the Sociology of Religion
• 142083 UE [ en ] "Burn them! Eat them! Wear them!" - Materiality and Performativity of Sacred Texts in South Asia