Bachelor Religious Education (Emphasis: Religious Studies) (195 [7] - Version 2017)

BRP 01 Introductory and Orientation Period (5 ECTS)

BRP 02 Introductory and Orientation Period (10 ECTS)

• EXAM ON-SITE STEOP I Introduction Theology and Study of Religions (lectures)
• 010044 VO Introduction to Comparative Religion
• 010110 VO ( OV ) Introduction to Catholic Theology I
• 020016 VO-L ( MIXED ) STEOP: Theological Encyclopedia
• 020028 PS Introduction to scientific working

BRP 03 Introduction to the History of Religion (10 ECTS)

• 010105 VO Introduction to the General History of Religions

BRP 04rwb Introduction to the Study of Writtem Sources (10 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
• 010095 VU Introduction to the Academic Study of Religious Texts

BRP 05rwb Introduction to Religious Studies (9 ECTS)

• 010015 SE Religions and animals
• 010100 SE Ideas of Reincarnation: Past and Present
• 010102 SE [ en ] Folkloristic and Religious Studies

BRP 06rwb Basics of Philosophy 1 (6 ECTS)

BRP 07rwb Interreligious Cultural Studies 1 (10 ECTS)

BRP 08rwb Basics of Philosophy 1 (6 ECTS)

• 010092 VO Classical Writers of Philosophy of Religion
• 010290 VO Modern Philosophy

BRP 09rwb Advanced Course: History of Religions 1 (9 ECTS)

a) Introduction to Christianity

b) Compulsory Electives

• 010099 VU [ en ] Transformations of Contemporary Atheism
• 010103 VU [ en ] Introducing Shinto
• 020021 VO Introduction to Islam - History of Islam from Muhammad to the epoch of the Abbasides

BRP 10rwb Advanced Course: History of Religions 2 (15 ECTS)

• 010062 VO Lecture Afroamerican Religions
• 010091 VO Introducing Hindu Religions
• 010093 VO Introducing Buddhism
• 010103 VU [ en ] Introducing Shinto
• 060066 VO ( REMOTE ) Egyptian Religion
• 150141 VU [ en ] Comparative East Asian Religions

BRP 11rwb Applied Religious Studies (10 ECTS)

• 010018 EX Religion in Vienna - Non-German-Speaking Catholic Communities
• 010057 EX Excursion to Prague - 5th Prague Dialogues on Church-State Relations - Pastoral Care in Public Institutions June 2024
• 010080 SE Religion in Focus - Soka Gakkai
• 010089 SE Practice-oriented Religious Studies: Essentials and Areas of Application
• 010116 EX Christianity in Medieval Vienna
• 020045 SE ( KPH ) Forschungswerkstatt zur empirischen Religionsforschung - Research Lab ‚religious plurality‘

BRP 12rwb Interreligious Education (12 ECTS)

• 010038 SE ( KPH ) Orthodox Religious Education in Secondary Schools und Bible-Didactics
• 010042 SE ( KPH ) Ethical Education
• 010089 SE Practice-oriented Religious Studies: Essentials and Areas of Application

BRP 13rwb Gender Studies and Religion (8 ECTS)

• 010118 SE [ en ] World Population and Food Security: Bioethical Perspectives

BRP 14rwb Alternative Compulsory Modules (15 ECTS)

a) BRP 14rwb a Source Languages (15 ECTS)

b) BRP 14rwb b Advanced Course: Religious Studies (15 ECTS)

• 010015 SE Religions and animals
• 010069 SE Religion in Austria Under National Socialist Rule 1938-1945
• 010089 SE Practice-oriented Religious Studies: Essentials and Areas of Application
• 010097 SE Religions in public institutions?
• 010102 SE [ en ] Folkloristic and Religious Studies

BRP 15rwb Interreligious Cultural Studies 2 (11 ECTS)

BRP 16rwb Anthropology and Social Science (16 ECTS)

• 010017 VO Politics and Religion in Austria and the European Union
• 010077 SE Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Religions
• 010102 SE [ en ] Folkloristic and Religious Studies

BRP 17rwb Advanced Course: History of Religions and Comparative Religion (13 ECTS)

a) Compulsory Courses

1. Seminar in History of Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010069 SE Religion in Austria Under National Socialist Rule 1938-1945
• 010114 VU [ en ] Epic, Heroes and Myths of Mongolia: From the Mongol Empire to the Present

2. Seminar in Comparative-Systematical Religious Studies (5 ECTS)

• 010015 SE Religions and animals
• 010089 SE Practice-oriented Religious Studies: Essentials and Areas of Application
• 010100 SE Ideas of Reincarnation: Past and Present
• 010102 SE [ en ] Folkloristic and Religious Studies

b) Alternative Compulsory Courses

• 010099 VU [ en ] Transformations of Contemporary Atheism
• 010103 VU [ en ] Introducing Shinto