Master Study of Religions (800 [3] - Version 2025)

M1 History of Religions

Modern History of Religion: Lectures or Lectures with exercises

• 010085 VU [ en ] Lecture with exercises to modern History of Religion
• 010093 SE [ en ] Judaism in Europe
• 010101 VU [ en ] Christianity in the USA
• 010170 VU Islam in Austria
• 142052 PS Manuscripts, Prints, and Painted Scrolls - Sources for the Study of Tibetan Buddhism
• 142077 PS Nepal's Stolen Gods Return - Recent Controversies in the Restitution of Cultural Heritage from the Himalayas
• 142125 PS Sexuality and Femininity in Indian Esoteric Buddhism

Ancient Religions: Lecture or Lecture with exercise

• 010087 VU [ en ] Introduction to the Religions of Ancient Mesoamerica
• 090100 VO [ en ] Lecture Series: Religious Communities and Manuscript Cultures on the Medieval Silk Road
• 090106 VO Byzantium and the Islamic world
• 142137 PS From Dharma to Moksa: Ethics, the Meaning of Life, and Paths to Liberation in Classical India
• 142666 PS We Humans and Nature in Pre-Modern Hindu Traditions

Seminar

• 010089 SE Religions of the Silk Road
• 060003 SE The Geonim as Intermediaries: Jewish Learning between Talmudic Tradition and the Medieval World
• 060016 SE Jewish object cultures
• 060032 SE The Jew as vampire: On the genesis and function of an anti-Semitic stereotype
• 141212 SE [ en ] A History of Modern Jihad, 1924-2014 c.a.
• 142157 SE [ en ] Popular Hinduism: Material Religion in South Asia

M2 Comparative Study of Religions

Lecture or Lectures with exercises

• 010062 VU New Religions
• 010076 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) Becoming God: Human Deification in the History of Religions

Seminars

• 010182 SE [ en ] Classical and Modern Theories of Religion

M3 Academic Study of Religious Texts

• 010058 UE Reading Sources in the Study of Religions
• 010063 UE [ de en ] Key Works in the Social Scientific Research on Religion

M4 Applied Study of Religions

Lecture with exercise

• 010069 UE The Study of Religions in the Context of School and Teaching

Excursion or seminar or practical course

• 010078 SE ( KPH-W-NÖ ) The Study of Religions as a Profession
• 010080 EX Religion in Focus: Ayurveda
• 600005 SE Research Seminar

M5 Compulsory module: Social-Scientific Study of Religions

Lectures or Lectures with exercises

• 010072 VU Selected Chapters of Psychology of Religion
• 010095 VU [ en ] Cognitive and Evolutionary Science of Religion
• 020040 VO [ en ] ( MIXED ) VO: Law and Religion in Europe

Seminar

• 010077 SE Coming of Age in Different Religions: Comparing Concepts of Childhood, Youth and Adulthood - Konzepte von Kindheit, Jugend und Erwachsenenalter im Vergleich
• 010162 SE ( KPH-W-NÖ ) Seminar to Social-Scientific Study of Religions

M6 Research Seminar

• 010074 UE Research Seminar