Elective Modules (20 ECTS)

M12: Relevant Source Language (10 ECTS)

• 020036 UE Communication in Arabic

M13: Advanced Source Language (10 ECTS)

• 020036 UE Communication in Arabic

M14: Thesis Supervision (10 ECTS)

• 600004 PR [ en ] Research Seminar

M15: Specialisation: History of Religion (10 ECTS)

• 010018 EX Religion in Vienna - Non-German-Speaking Catholic Communities
• 010062 VO Lecture Afroamerican Religions
• 010065 VO Introduction to the Eastern Churches - Focus on Orthodox and Oriental Churches
• 010069 SE Religion in Austria Under National Socialist Rule 1938-1945
• 010080 SE Religion in Focus - Soka Gakkai
• 010099 VU [ en ] Transformations of Contemporary Atheism
• 010103 VU [ en ] Introducing Shinto
• 010114 VU [ en ] Epic, Heroes and Myths of Mongolia: From the Mongol Empire to the Present
• 010223 VO Basic Course Church History II
• 020021 VO Introduction to Islam - History of Islam from Muhammad to the epoch of the Abbasides
• 150141 VU [ en ] Comparative East Asian Religions

M16: Specialisation: Comparative Religion (10 ECTS)

• 010011 VO Symbol, Sign, Ritual: Introduction to Aesthetics of Religion
• 010015 SE Religions and animals
• 010102 SE [ en ] Folkloristic and Religious Studies
• 020035 VO ( MIXED ) Ethics of religions

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

• 010018 EX Religion in Vienna - Non-German-Speaking Catholic Communities
• 010077 SE Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Religions

M18: Advanced History of Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010018 EX Religion in Vienna - Non-German-Speaking Catholic Communities
• 010069 SE Religion in Austria Under National Socialist Rule 1938-1945
• 010080 SE Religion in Focus - Soka Gakkai
• 010099 VU [ en ] Transformations of Contemporary Atheism
• 010103 VU [ en ] Introducing Shinto
• 010114 VU [ en ] Epic, Heroes and Myths of Mongolia: From the Mongol Empire to the Present

M19: Advanced Methodology (5 ECTS)

• 010069 SE Religion in Austria Under National Socialist Rule 1938-1945
• 010077 SE Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Religions

M20: Advanced Comparative Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010015 SE Religions and animals
• 010089 SE Practice-oriented Religious Studies: Essentials and Areas of Application
• 010102 SE [ en ] Folkloristic and Religious Studies

M21: Advanced Subject Area (5 ECTS)

• 010072 SE Visible signs of an invisible reality. Liturgical Symbols - Are they still relevant nowadays?
• 010073 SE Selected Chapters of Psychology of Religion
• 010077 SE Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Religions
• 010097 SE Religions in public institutions?
• 010100 SE Ideas of Reincarnation: Past and Present
• 010102 SE [ en ] Folkloristic and Religious Studies
• 010106 SE [ en ] Cinema in Dialogue with Humanities and Social Sciences: Religion, Film and Culture
• 010108 SE Seminar on Aesthetics: Performativity and materiality (Dieter Mersch)
• 010112 SE What holds us together - and divides us. Values in education, religion and politics
• 010118 SE [ en ] World Population and Food Security: Bioethical Perspectives
• 060005 SE Gender(s) and Sexuality(ies) in Judaism
• 060012 SE Jewish art in the context of religious art - Summer Course July 22-25, 2024; Seggau Castle
• 060018 SE The eternal struggle between good and evil in rabbinic texts
• 142241 PS Buddhist Tantric Traditions in the Himalayan Regions
• 490107 PS ( KPH Krems ) Menschenrechte und (Inter-)Religiöse Bildung

M22: Advanced Reading (5 ECTS)

• 010071 PS Exegetical methods
• 010086 SE Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed - Religious Studies Source Work on Visions of the Afterlife from the Middle Ages to the Present Day
• 010087 SE Islamic History of Ideas: Introduction and Analysis