6. Study of Religions

1. Introduction to the Study of Religions

1.1. Introduction to History of Religions

1.2. Introduction to Comparative religion

1.3. Methodology of the Study of Religions

1.4. Textual Sources: Introductory Course

• 010055 VO Introduction to the New Testament II - The Catholic Epistels
• 010270 VO General Introduction to the Old Testament
• 020110 VO The so-called "Lukan travel narrative" (Lk 9-18)
• 020112 VU Introduction into the Bible
• 060015 VO Introduction to Hebrew Bible

1.5. Textual Sources: Reading Course

• 010110 SE Psalms
• 020073 UE Exercise in Exegesis of New Testament - Texts concerning the Theology of the New Testament and the History of the Early Church
• 020103 VO+UE Exegesis of Capita Selecta from the Book of Ruth
• 020104 VO+UE Exegesis of Capita Selecta from the Book of Ruth
• 020105 UE Old Testament exegetical exercises
• 020106 SE Seminar on Women in the Deuteronomistic History
• 020114 UE Cursory Interpretation of New Testament Texts
• 060050 UE Coptic Grammar and Texts I
• 060054 UE Hieratic I
• 060059 UE Reading Egyptian Texts
• 140033 UE Buddhist Texts III: Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara, Chapter 9
• 140343 UE Buddhist Texts I: Cognizing beyond the Perceptible
• 140483 PS Travel of the Dead - Death Rituals and Conceptions of Afterlife in the Garudapurana and the Pretamanjari
• 140529 PS Readings in the Bhagavadgita II
• 140542 PS The First of the "Family Books" of the Rigveda - Selected Stanzas of the Gritsamadas in praise of Agni, Indra and other Gods

1.6. Advanced Methodology

• 010144 SE Methods of Qualitative Research - in a theological context
• 010348 SE Discourse about Matrimony and Gender-relations in the Old Testament
• 010369 SE [ en ] Cross-cultural communication - How to create effective communication with different cultural groups
• 020092 SE Applied Studies of Religion - Meander or essential discipline ?
• 140561 UE The Exploration of Tibetan Religion: Eminent Researchers and their Contributions
• 010153 PS Introduction to Exegetical Methods

2. History of Religions

2.1. Contemporary Religions

• 010131 VO Introduction to Christianity (lecture)
• 010223 VO Church History Compact II - A Survey of the History of the second Christian Millenium
• 010312 VO Afroamerican Religions. An Introduction
• 020091 VO Christianity in Afrika - Old traditions and new movements
• 060049 VO Introduction to the history, culture and religion of Judaism, part 2: Rabbinic period
• 140367 VO The Islam 1-2
• 140546 VO [ en ] Chinese Religions with Special Emphasis on Buddhism

2.2. Specialised Courses

• 060021 VO The Kabbalah, an Introduction
• 060044 VO Religious-cultural tendencies in modern Judaism
• 140047 VO Folk Religions and Deities in South India
• 140060 SE Islamic Theology and Philosophy, 17th - 20th Century
• 140062 VO+UE Political Theory and Social Philosophy in Islam 2
• 140078 SE Seminar on Modern Islamic Studies: Current Trends in Islamic Discourses
• 140121 SE Post-Classical Islamic Theology
• 140479 UE Islamic Criminal History 2
• 140552 UE+EX New Feminist Concepts in Islam - Literature and Practice
• 140560 VO Aspects of Tibetan Religious History

2.3. Historical (extinct) Religions

• 060055 UE Introduction into the Religion of Ancient Egypt II
• 090209 VO Cults and Sanctuaries in Ancient Aetolia and Acarnania
• 090273 VO Cult and Deities in the Aegean
• 090289 SE Mycenaean Sanctuaries

3. Comparative Religion

• 010233 SE Seminar: New Religions and Secularization
• 010305 SE Ideas of Reincarnation: Past and Present
• 010316 SE Sacrifice and offering within Religions. Theories of a basic ritual practice
• 010357 SE Main topics of the Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
• 010364 SE Religions and the end of the world - Religions and the end of the world
• 020090 SE Background of suicide attacks in different cultural and religious contexts
• 020093 SE The right of freedom of religion and manifestation of belief for various religions in the jail - Legal, social and interreligious aspects

4. Approaches to the Study of Religions

4.1. Missionary Studies, Theology of Religions

• 010371 VO Interreligious Dialogue - The Official Documents of the Catholic Church
• 010372 VO Being church in mission. An Introduction to the Theology of Mission

4.2. Political Theory of Religions

• 010368 SE [ en ] Visual Representation of the Radical Islamic Movements
• 020090 SE Background of suicide attacks in different cultural and religious contexts
• 210142 PS [ en ] D6, G10: Current Trends in Antisemitism Research

4.3. Didactics of Religions

4.4. Aesthetics of Religion

• 010177 VO Introduction in Christian Iconography: The Image of Christ II - (Images of Transfiguration, Passion, Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost and Doomsday)
• 060018 VO Jewish art in antiquity
• 080066 VO [ en ] Aspects of Indian Architecture (au.K.) - Social, Symbolic and Formal Origins of the Indian Temple
• 140329 VO+PR Selected Topics in African Art: Art and Oracle

4.5. Cultural Anthropology of Religion

• 010312 VO Afroamerican Religions. An Introduction
• 240021 VO Anthropology of Religion and Consciousness - An Introduction
• 240024 VO Anthropology of Myth. An Introduction.
• 240065 VO Funeral Art - Entrance ticket to the land of the Deads
• 240066 VO Grundlagen der mesoamerikanischen Religion samt Lektüre II

4.6. Philosophy of Religion

• 010350 SE Seminar: main positions of philosophical criticism of religion
• 020086 SE Philosophy of Religion and Culture
• 140530 SE Readings in the Madhva School - The Purnaprajnadarsana of the Sarvadarsanasamgraha of Madhva
• 140547 VO On the Religious Background and Thought of the Buddhist Epistemologists
• 180070 SE The question on god
• 180329 VO The Conception of God
• 180419 SE The concept of philosophy in Islam - The authority of Aristoteles on the opinion of Ibn Rushd(Averroes 12. cen.): Are Philosophy and Theologie contradictory?
• 180485 VO [ en ] Chinese Philosophy: Classical Confucianism Daoism, and Chinese Mahayana Buddhism
• 180486 VO [ en ] Chinese Philosophy - Neo-Confucianism

4.7. Psychology of Religion

• 010369 SE [ en ] Cross-cultural communication - How to create effective communication with different cultural groups

4.8. Religion and Law

• 010132 VO Basic Terms of Canon Law
• 010327 VO The Constitution of the Church 1: Basic Questions
• 010328 VO The Constitution of the Church 2: Structures and Institutions of the church
• 030052 SE Law of Chrstian East - Orthodox Churches in Europe
• 030399 VO Legal Position of religious communities in Austria - Zur Rechtsstellung der Religionsgemeinschaften in Österreich
• 030407 SE Development of Human Rights in Austria and the Relationship between Church and State - vertiefende historische Kompetenz (auch für DiplomandInnen und DissertantInnen)
• 030441 VO Europe and the islamic modernism
• 030442 VO Freedom of Relgion and Belief in Europe
• 030567 SE Discrimination for ethnic and religios reasons - (auch für DiplomandInnen und DissertantInnen)
• 030610 SE Freedom of Religion and belief in Austria and Europe; Recent Austrian and European Court Decisions - (auch für DiplomandInnen und DissertantInnen)

4.9. Sociology of Religion

• 010360 VO [ en ] Contemporary Approaches to Religion in Sociology and Cultural Analysis - Secularisation Theory Re-Examined

5. Applied Study of Religions

• 010321 EX Study Trip: Religions in Northern India
• 010325 EX Excursion to Romania
• 010329 SE+EX Slovakia - Church-Neighbour Slovakia: Traces of its great ecclesiastical past and pastoral present (guided excursion)