C. Individual Degree Programme in Science of Religion

1. Introduction to Science of Religion

1.1. Introduction to History of Religion

1.2. Introduction to Comparative Systematic Science of Religion

• 010014 VO Study of Religions II: God- Brahman- Nirvana- Dao

1.3. Proseminar: Basics of Science of Religion

1.4. Study of Theological Sources

• 010012 VO Fundamental Exegesis of the Old Testament 4 - The Books of the Prophets
• 010066 VU Introduction to the Scientific Study of Religious Scripture
• 010197 VO Fundamental Exegesis of the New Testament I - The Quest for the Historical Jesus
• 020010 VU Introduction to Biblical Studies (Old Testament and New Testament)
• 060126 VO The Canonical History of the Hebrew Bible

1.5. Reading Theological Texts

• 010022 PS Introduction to Exegetical Methods
• 010033 PS Introduction to Exegetical Methods
• 020004 UE Exercise in Exegesis
• 020007 SE Old Testament Seminar: The Scroll of the Twelve Minor Prophets
• 020011 UE Exercise in Exegesis of New Testament: Pastoral Epistles
• 060125 UE Exegesis of Biblical and Ancient Jewish Literature
• 090093 PS Greek sources for the history and culture of Byzantine monasticism
• 140505 UE Readings in Mongolian Buddhist Texts
• 140528 BA Selected Texts on Dependent-Arising (pratityasamutpada)
• 140529 BA Interpretations of Madhyamaka
• 010092 SE Islamic mysticism

1.6. Methodology, 2nd Stage of the Degree Programme

• 010144 UE Methods of Qualitative Research - in a theological context
• 010305 SE Religions and Gender
• 150070 UE Methods in Korean studies II: Methods in Korean Studies with Emphasis on New Religious Movements
• 240117 VO+KO Einführung in Theorien und Methoden der Gender Studies

2. History of Religion

2.1. Contemporary Religions

• 010054 VO Introduction to Buddhism
• 010062 VO Introduction to Christianity
• 020028 SE "Spiritual Psychotherapies? Promises of New Religious Cults"
• 020030 VO Introduction to the Coptic Church
• 140106 VO Shamanism in Central Asia
• 150062 VO+UE Religions in East Asia

2.2. Special Courses in History of Religion

• 010076 SE Religious Syncretism in Southeast Asia with a special emphasise on new religious, Buddhist movements - (Schwerpunkt: neureligiöse buddhistische Bewegungen)
• 010349 VO Intercultural philosophy - Religionsphilosophische Strömungen Indiens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
• 030364 KU Globalisation as a challenge for modern Islam
• 060068 SE Jesus and Christianity in Talmud and Midrash
• 060084 VO Jews under Islam - the first centuries
• 090191 PS Aphrodite
• 140031 SE Saiva and Buddhist Tantra
• 140062 SE Modern islamic Discussions on Religion
• 140078 SE Seminar on Modern Islam - (Modern-arabisches islamwissenschaftliches Seminar)
• 140090 PS Doctrines of God and Concepts of Salvation in Hinduism
• 140115 PS Ritual theory and rituals in India
• 140143 VO Women in Buddhism
• 140144 PS Women, Men and Religion in Contemporary Hindi Film
• 140147 VO Gods Beyond Temples - Folk Forms of Divine Presence in Indian Tradition - Volkstümliche Formen der göttlichen Gegenwart in der indischen Tradit
• 140149 VO The Development of the Tibetan Tantric Cults
• 140455 PS The role of the female in Hindu-Tantrism
• 140483 PS The Sa skya-tradition
• 140527 PS The "life stages" (asrama) according to the Brahmanical Orthodoxy - (Investigations in the Dharmasastras)
• 140536 VO [ en ] Buddhism among the Turks - History and Literature
• 140543 VO The tradition of Pancaratra
• 010092 SE Islamic mysticism
• 030399 SE Globalisation as a challenge for modern Islam - für DiplomandInnen und DissertantInnen

2.3. Historical Religions

• 060055 UE Introduction into the Religion of Ancient Egypt II
• 090209 VO Cults and Sanctuaries in Ancient Boiotia
• 140316 VO Meroitic Religion

3. Comparative Systematic Science of Religion

• 010053 VO Religious concepts and ideas of (wo)man
• 010065 VO Theories of Mythology
• 010368 SE Ritual analysis

4. Sub- and Bridge Disciplines

4.1. Science of Mission and Theology of Religion

• 140328 KU (German-)Southwest-Africa: Mission and Colonialism

4.2. Political Dimensions of Religions

• 140060 VO History, Politics and Islam (special themes)
• 140145 SE Women in Theory and Practice of Political Hinduism
• 150091 VO+UE [ en ] Religious Policy in East Asia: Chinese-Tibetan Relations in the 20th Century

4.3. Didactics of Religions

• 010079 SE [ en ] Mulitcultural and multi-reigious education

4.4. Aesthetics of Religions

• 020017 VO Biblical Archaeology: Motives from the Old Testament in fine Arts
• 020031 SE Book illumination in Late antiquity
• 090189 PS The Cult of Mithras and Early Christianity as Reflected in Monuments
• 090305 PS Roman Cult and Sacrificial Instruments

4.5. Ethnology of Religion

• 240123 VO Anthropology of Myth. An Introduction.
• 240124 VO Anthropology of Religion and Consciousness
• 240171 VS Religious communities and inter-ethnic relationships in Western Asia

4.6. Philosophy of Religion

• 010349 VO Intercultural philosophy - Religionsphilosophische Strömungen Indiens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
• 020009 SE The philosophy of religion of the early J. G. Fichte
• 140095 SE Tibetan Madhyamaka
• 140105 VO Philosophy of Buddhism
• 140485 SE Reflexive awareness (svasamvedana) in the logico-epistemological tradition of Buddhism
• 140504 KO Buddhist epistemology
• 180090 VO The Conception of God
• 180141 VO The Indian Body - Tantric philosophies in India
• 180243 SE Is God possible? (Selected chapters in formal logic) - Logic and Religion
• 180361 VO Zen and Philosophy - Philosophical Anthropology

4.7. Psychology of Religion

• 020044 SE Compulsory Optional Subject: Seminar Psychology of Religion: Psychoanalysis, Individual and Culture

4.8. Law of Religions

• 020026 VU Religions and Churches in Austria and Europe: Legal Aspects
• 030052 SE Law of Christian East - Legal History in Art
• 030075 SE Freedom of Religion in relationship to other Fundamental Rights - (auch für DiplomandInnen und DissertantInnen)
• 030442 VO Freedom of Relgion and Belief in Europe

4.9. Sociology of Religion

• 010080 SE Religion and Modernity: Between Fundamentalism and Secular Religion
• 010324 SE Human Rights and Religions
• 150070 UE Methods in Korean studies II: Methods in Korean Studies with Emphasis on New Religious Movements

5. Practical Training, Excursions

• 010043 EX Austrian Monasteries in the Middle Ages
• 010312 EX Excursion: Togo and Benin
• 020019 EX Excursion: Regensburg- Bamberg
• 020029 VO+UE Muslims in the Army