C. Individual Degree Programme in Science of Religion

Das Individuelle Studium Religionswissenschaft wird ab Herbst 2008 durch das neue Regelstudienangebot (Erweiterungscurricula, Master) ersetzt. Es kann daher nicht mehr erstinskribiert werden. Alle Studierenden, die zu diesem Zeitpunkt eine gültige Zulassung zum IRW besitzen, haben aber die Möglichkeit, das Studium weiter zu belegen und abzuschliessen.

020112 VO Introduction to Scientific Study of Religions - (Schwerpunkt systematisch-vergleichende Religionswissenschaft)

1.3. Proseminar: Basics of Science of Religion

010037 VU Basic Principles of and Approaches to the Study of Religions

1.4. Study of Theological Sources

010061 VO General Introduction to the Old Testament

010062 PS Introduction to Exegetical Methods

010001 VO Introduction to the New Testament

010139 PS Introduction to Exegetical Methods

010305 VO Patrology I - Early Christian Literature

020073 VO New Testament Exegesis - Exegesis of the Acts of the Apostles

060097 VO [en] Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls

1.5. Reading Theological Texts

010010 SE Seminar: Apocryphal Gospels

010077 SE Selected Texts of the Philokalia

020062 UE Old Testament exegetical Exercises

020075 VU Old Testament Exegesis - Exegesis of selected Psalms

140129 PS The Goddess Kali in Sanskrit Literature seen from the angle of the History of Religion - unter religionsgeschichtlichem Aspekt

140130 PS Readings in the Dharmasutras

140131 UE God Indra's Panic and Blood-Guilt - The Vrtra Fight and the Murder of Vishvarupa in Vedic Literature

140142 UE Reading Tibetan Texts I: Atisha's Lam sgron

140144 UE Reading Buddhist Texts II: Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakosha

140145 UE Reading Buddhist Texts IV: Emptiness and the Bodhisattva in the Prajnaparamita Literature

140148 UE Ritual Texts of Tibetan Folk Religion

1.6. Methodology, 2nd Stage of the Degree Programme

010008 SE Theories of Gender and Church History

010044 SE Basics and methods of Church History - an introduction - Die Leisten zum Schustern - Einführung in Grundlagen und Techniken kirchenhistorischen Arbeitens.

010062 PS Introduction to Exegetical Methods

010093 SE Biblical Archeology - Israel and Juda during the Iron Age

010139 PS Introduction to Exegetical Methods

140043 VO Islamic Gender Studies (Women in Arab Society and Culture 1)

150002 UE Methods in Korean Studies I with an Emphasis on the Sociology of Religion

240112 VO+KO Einführung in Theorien und Methoden der Gender Studies

240121 VO Einführung in Theorien und Methoden der Genderforschung in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften

190200 SE Qualitative methods in the social research - Biographic case analyses

2. History of Religion

2.1. Contemporary Religions

010014 VO Church History Compact I - A Survey of the History of the first Christian Millenium

010082 VO Introduction to the History of Religions: main topic Islam

020113 VO Compulsory Optional Subject: Introduction to Islam (Part 2)

010087 VO Hindu-Religions: An Introduction

060064 VO Introduction to Jewish History, Religion and Literature from the Antique Period until Today

140128 VO Hinduism - One Religion or Many?

150063 VO Religion in Japan

180190 VO Introduction to Chinese Thought - Mencius and Xun Zi. Chinese Buddhism

240071 VO [de en] Power, Politics and Religion: The Case of Vodun

2.2. Special Courses in History of Religion

060060 SE Women in the time of the rabbis: Legal situation, daly life, stereotypes

060063 VO The position of women in orthodox Judaism through the ages

060066 SE Modern texts about antisemitism from the 19th century to the Shoah

060068 VO Eva Frank, the female Messiah - History of the heretic Kabbalah

060073 VO The origins of antisemitism from antique until early medieval times

060074 SE Women in Antique Judaism

060093 VO+UE 'Collectors' and Rebels: The Haskalah in Central Europe

060094 VO+UE Buber, Fromm, Heschel - prophets of the jewish "counter-culture"

060121 VO Conflicts, pieces of wisdom and pernicketiness in Judaism

140042 UE Islam in Media

140119 UE Hinduism in the Diaspora

140147 VO The Deities of Tibetan Folk Religion

140251 SE Islamic Themes from Former Times (Seminar on Classical Islam)

140295 VO Introduction into Modern Discussions in Islam

140308 SE History of Ideas in Islam

2.3. Historical Religions

060053 UE Introduction into the Religion of Ancient Egypt I

090212 VO The religion of the Etruscans

130175 VO Literary Texts on Slavic and Baltic Heathenism - The Bride in the Backyard - Die grüne Wiese

3. Comparative Systematic Science of Religion

010036 SE Medical Ethics in Religions

010043 VO Ritualtheorien

020115 SE Dharma, Dhamma, Din und Dat = "Religion"? - Dharma, Dhamma, Din und Dat = "Religion"? - The of equivalence problem of the Western term "religion" in Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism and Islam

4. Sub- and Bridge Disciplines

4.1. Science of Mission and Theology of Religion

4.2. Political Dimensions of Religions

020114 SE Salam and Jihad - Historical and Contemporary Concepts of Peace and Violence in Islam

140072 KU Religions and Politics in Nigeria in the 20th Century

140183 VO Political History of the Arab World (History of the Arabs in Classical Times 1)

240071 VO [de en] Power, Politics and Religion: The Case of Vodun

4.3. Didactics of Religions

010066 SE Subjective Theories of Religious Education

010149 SE Religion in the Context of Migration

020109 UE Compulsory Optional Subject: Bible stories in Religious Education - Methods and options

4.4. Aesthetics of Religions