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