B. Master Degree Programme in Study of Religions

1. Required Modules

M01: Key Issues in the History of Religion

1. Judaism

2. Christianity

• 010065 VO Introduction to the Orthodox Church(es)
• 010124 VO Cultic Milieu, Invisible Religion, New Age, Spirituality - The search for an adequate understanding of an important area of religion in modernity

3. Islam

4. Religions of Indian Origin

5. East-Asian Religions

6. Historical Religions

• 060053 VO Introduction into the Religion of Ancient Egypt

7. Others

M02: Special Courses in History of Religion

• 010035 FS Pius XI. and Austria

1. Judaism

• 060015 SE History, Culture and Religion of the Jews in the USA
• 060016 VO+UE Bible, Talmud and Kabbala in Film

2. Christianity

• 020002 SE The Archeaology of Jesus' Death
• 020003 SE Mammon: God and Money in the Biblical World
• 020046 SE [ en ] Minorities as driving forces for the development of societies

3. Islam

4. Religions of Indian Origin

• 140185 SE Poetic Traditions of the Bhakti Movement
• 140277 UE The Sacred in the Urban Architecture of North India, Nepal and Bhutan

5. East-Asian Religions

6. Historical Religions

7. Others

M03: Comparative Systematic Study of Religions

• 010032 VO Angels and Vampires. Eschatology and Antieschatology
• 140194 VO [ en ] Religious Approaches to the Problem of Suffering - Western and Asian Perspectives

M04: Applied Systematics

• 020047 SE European and Oriental Christianity from an Islamic Perspective

M05: Religion and Society

• 020045 SE+EX NAIKAN - A Buddhist way of insight voice meditation - History, praxis and application in the penal system and in coaching.

M06: Psychology of Religion

• 020023 VO Religion and Psyche: An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion

M07: Additional Subject Areas

• 010080 VO Penal sanctions in the Church
• 060016 VO+UE Bible, Talmud and Kabbala in Film

1. Missiology, Theology of Religion

2. Political Dimensions of Religions

• 010124 VO Cultic Milieu, Invisible Religion, New Age, Spirituality - The search for an adequate understanding of an important area of religion in modernity

3. Didactics of Religions

4. Aesthetics of Religions

5. Anthropology of Religion

• 240009 VO Anthropology of Religion and Consciousness

6. Philosophy of Religion

• 010038 VO Philosophical Theology
• 010066 VO Philosophy of religions

7. Law of Religions

• 010036 VK Basic Terms of Canon Law
• 030115 VO Law on Migration and Integration

M08: Reading Course: Sacred Texts

• 010018 PS Introduction to Exegetical Methods
• 010044 FS Classic texts on the Criticism of religion
• 060082 UE Hieroglyphic Texts I

M09: Recent Research Approaches

• 010137 SE Basic Questions of Esoteric Research
• 010155 SE Christian rituals in state of change

M10: Science of Religion in Practice

• 010009 SE Titel
• 010069 SE Spiritual Care. Dead Care
• 020047 SE European and Oriental Christianity from an Islamic Perspective

2. Elective Modules

M12: Relevant Source Language

M13: Advanced Source Language

M14: Thesis Supervision

M15: Specialisation: History of Religion

• 010014 VO Church History Compact I - The first christian millenium

M16: Specialisation: Systematics

• 010046 FS Human Rights and Religions: Complementaries and Tensions

M17: Specialisation: Methods of Empirical Research

M18: Advanced History of Religion

• 010035 FS Pius XI. and Austria

M19: Advanced Methodology

• 010046 FS Human Rights and Religions: Complementaries and Tensions

M20: Advanced Systematics

M21: Advanced Subject Area

• 010017 VU Theory of religious education - General subject didactics
• 010040 FS Hölderlin´s poetry of the disintegration of the common worlds of Gods and mankind
• 010047 BA Cases declaring the nullity of marriage - a role play
• 010051 FS Church and religions in different legal and cultural contexts
• 010099 BA Giorgio Agamben: Profanations
• 030060 SE Freedom of expression and freedom of religion -a complex relationship - for diploma and doctoral students
• 030112 SE Law of the Christian East - Art and Cultural Law (for diploma and doctoral students)
• 030425 SE Seminar on Legal Philosophy and Religious Law - "Ministry, Celibacy and Gender Problems in Rel. Law" (for undergraduate and graduate students)
• 300073 SE Current topics in philosophy, theology and biology - Interdisciplinary discussions of current topics in Philosophy, Theology and Biology

M22: Advanced Reading