Compulsory Modules (100 ECTS)

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

1. Judaism

2. Christianity

• 010007 VO Basic Course Church History I - The first christian millenium
• 010065 VO Introduction to the Eastern Churches
• 010223 VO Basic Course Church History II - The second millenium of Christianity

3. Islam

• 020055 VO ( MIXED ) 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

• 060066 VO ( REMOTE ) Egyptian Religion

7. Others

• 010088 VO African Religions

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

1. Judaism

2. Christianity

3. Islam

• 010116 VU [ en ] Religion in Contemporary Iran

4. Religions of Indian Origin

5. East-Asian Religions

• 010103 VU [ en ] Introducing Shinto

6. Historical Religions

7. Others

• 010069 SE Religion in Austria Under National Socialist Rule 1938-1945
• 010081 SE "Indigenous" Religions in North America

M03: Comparative Religion (9 ECTS)

• 010070 VO Sacrificial Rites in Religions
• 010079 VO [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Religion and Globalisation
• 010087 VO [ en ] Religion and Sound Media: A Cultural History of Sense Perception
• 020022 VO ( MIXED ) Seminar: Scientific Study of Religions

M04: Comparative Religion Applied (5 ECTS)

• 010081 SE "Indigenous" Religions in North America
• 010085 SE Deity and Gender
• 010120 SE [ en ] Introduction to the Study of Mysticism

M05: Religion and Society (5 ECTS)

• 010077 SE Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Religions

M06: Psychology of Religion (7 ECTS)

• 020039 UE Basic Questions of Religious Psychology - Ausgewählte Kapitel der Religionspsychologie

M07: Additional Subject Areas (6 ECTS)

1. Missiology, Theology of Religion

• 010067 VO Special Pastoral Theologies

2. Political Dimensions of Religions

• 010079 VO [ en ] ( REMOTE ) Religion and Globalisation

3. Didactics of Religions

4. Aesthetics of Religions

• 010087 VO [ en ] Religion and Sound Media: A Cultural History of Sense Perception

5. Anthropology of Religion

• 010087 VO [ en ] Religion and Sound Media: A Cultural History of Sense Perception
• 010088 VO African Religions

6. Philosophy of Religion

• 010092 VO Classical Writers of Philosophy of Religion

7. Law of Religions

M08: Reading Course: Sacred Texts (8 ECTS)

• 010100 SE Working with Historical Sources in Religious Studies: Texts from Esotericism and Occultism

M09: Recent Research Approaches (5 ECTS)

• 010085 SE Deity and Gender

M10: Applied Study of Religion (7 ECTS)

• 010006 EX Excursion: The Land of the Bible
• 010057 EX Religion and Politics in Europe - Excursion Brussels
• 010073 EX Religion in Vienna
• 010080 SE Religion in Focus: Zen Buddhism (Rinzai)
• 010113 EX Excursion to Turkey: "Christianity and Liturgy in Asia Minor
• 020023 SE ( KPH Krems ) Forschungswerkstatt zur empirischen Religionsforschung - Research Lab ‚religious plurality‘