Universität Wien

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)

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