Bachelor Religious Education (Emphasis: Religious Studies) (195 [7] - Version 2017)

BRP 01 Introductory and Orientation Period (5 ECTS)

BRP 02 Introductory and Orientation Period (10 ECTS)

• EXAM ON-SITE STEOP I Introduction Theology and Study of Religions (lectures)
• 010079 VO Introduction to Comparative Religion
• 010110 VO ( OV ) Introduction to Catholic Theology I
• 020019 VO-L ( MIXED STEOP ) STEOP: Theological Encyclopedia
• 020044 PS Introduction to scientific working

Accompanying course for the STEOP in Theology

• 010037 UE Introduction to Catholic Theology: Accompanying Course

BRP 03 Introduction to the History of Religion (10 ECTS)

• 010105 VO Introduction to the General History of Religions

BRP 04rwb Introduction to the Study of Writtem Sources (10 ECTS)

• 010071 PS Exegetical methods
• 010095 VU Introduction to the Academic Study of Religious Texts

BRP 05rwb Introduction to Religious Studies (9 ECTS)

• 010085 SE Animal Ethics and Religion
• 010096 SE [ en ] Interdisciplinary Approaches to Religious Experience
• 010102 SE [ en ] Mysticism across Religions

BRP 06rwb Basics of Philosophy 1 (6 ECTS)

BRP 07rwb Interreligious Cultural Studies 1 (10 ECTS)

BRP 08rwb Basics of Philosophy 1 (6 ECTS)

• 010290 VO Modern Philosophy

BRP 09rwb Advanced Course: History of Religions 1 (9 ECTS)

a) Introduction to Christianity

b) Compulsory Electives

• 010087 VO The Occult Modernity - Alternative Religious Traditions from the Late Enlightenment to the First World War
• 010088 VU [ en ] New Religious Movements
• 010101 VU [ en ] Introducing Siberian Shamanism

BRP 10rwb Advanced Course: History of Religions 2 (15 ECTS)

• 010080 VO Introducing Hindu Religions
• 010093 VO Introducing Buddhism
• 010101 VU [ en ] Introducing Siberian Shamanism
• 060066 VO ( REMOTE ) Egyptian Religion

BRP 11rwb Applied Religious Studies (10 ECTS)

• 010012 EX Diversity in the Western Liturgy - On the Footsteps of the Ambrosian/Milanese Rite, Mozarabic/Old-Spanish Rite and the Diocesan Usage of Braga
• 020048 SE ( KPH Krems ) Forschungswerkstatt zur empirischen Religionsforschung - Research Lab ‚religious plurality‘

BRP 12rwb Interreligious Education (12 ECTS)

• 010042 SE ( KPH Krems ) Ethical Education - In consideration of primary level

BRP 13rwb Gender Studies and Religion (8 ECTS)

• 010072 SE Recognition and Gender Theory. Hegel and Butler
• 010118 SE [ en ] Classics of Theological Ethics

BRP 14rwb Alternative Compulsory Modules (15 ECTS)

a) BRP 14rwb a Source Languages (15 ECTS)

b) BRP 14rwb b Advanced Course: Religious Studies (15 ECTS)

• 010077 SE Spirituality in times of totalitarism
• 010085 SE Animal Ethics and Religion
• 010096 SE [ en ] Interdisciplinary Approaches to Religious Experience
• 010097 SE Current issues of church and religious law
• 010102 SE [ en ] Mysticism across Religions
• 010106 SE [ en ] Folkore and Belief

BRP 15rwb Interreligious Cultural Studies 2 (11 ECTS)

• 150135 VU [ en ] History of East Asia

BRP 16rwb Anthropology and Social Science (16 ECTS)

• 010099 SE [ en ] Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Religions
• 010107 SE [ en ] Anthropology of Religion

BRP 17rwb Advanced Course: History of Religions and Comparative Religion (13 ECTS)

a) Compulsory Courses

1. Seminar in History of Religion (5 ECTS)

• 010101 VU [ en ] Introducing Siberian Shamanism
• 010109 VU [ en ] The non-Buddhist Religions of Tibet

2. Seminar in Comparative-Systematical Religious Studies (5 ECTS)

• 010085 SE Animal Ethics and Religion
• 010102 SE [ en ] Mysticism across Religions
• 010106 SE [ en ] Folkore and Belief

b) Alternative Compulsory Courses

• 010088 VU [ en ] New Religious Movements