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

a) Compulsory Courses

1. Seminar in History of Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010012 SE Visible Signs of an Invisible Reality: Liturgical Symbols Are they still relevant today?
• 010093 SE [ en ] Judaism in Europe
• 060002 SE Film as Midrash
• 060003 SE The Geonim as Intermediaries: Jewish Learning between Talmudic Tradition and the Medieval World
• 060016 SE Jewish object cultures
• 060032 SE The Jew as vampire: On the genesis and function of an anti-Semitic stereotype
• 141212 SE [ en ] A History of Modern Jihad, 1924-2014 c.a.
• 141497 SE ( MIXED ) Dekolonialisierung des islamischen Rechts: Transformationen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
• 142052 PS Manuscripts, Prints, and Painted Scrolls - Sources for the Study of Tibetan Buddhism
• 142137 PS From Dharma to Moksa: Ethics, the Meaning of Life, and Paths to Liberation in Classical India
• 142157 SE [ en ] Popular Hinduism: Material Religion in South Asia

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

• 010077 SE Coming of Age in Different Religions: Comparing Concepts of Childhood, Youth and Adulthood - Konzepte von Kindheit, Jugend und Erwachsenenalter im Vergleich
• 010165 SE Ontological Gender Orders? - Sex and Gender in Western Science, European Esotericism, and Chinese Daoism
• 010182 SE [ en ] Classical and Modern Theories of Religion

b) Alternative Compulsory Courses

• 010062 VU New Religions
• 010085 VU [ en ] Lecture with exercises to modern History of Religion
• 010087 VU [ en ] Introduction to the Religions of Ancient Mesoamerica
• 010089 SE Religions of the Silk Road
• 010101 VU [ en ] Christianity in the USA
• 142052 PS Manuscripts, Prints, and Painted Scrolls - Sources for the Study of Tibetan Buddhism
• 142157 SE [ en ] Popular Hinduism: Material Religion in South Asia