Theology and Religious Studies:Judaism (Master 2012-2013) - Prospectus

Courses

Course	EC	Semester 1	Semester 2
General Required Course Religious Studies	5
Comparative Religion: Themes and Topics in the Study of Religion	5
Piety, Gender, and Modernity: Anthropological Perspectives	5
MA Thesis Theology and Religious Studies	20
Specialisation courses
Major Trends in Modern Jewish Philosophy	5
Jewish Culture: Vienna and the Jews at the Fin-de-siècle	5
Comparing Modernities: Judaism, Christianity and Islam	5
Rabbinic and Medieval Judaism: Jewish Mysticism	5

Course	EC	Semester 1	Semester 2
First semester
The archaeology of ancient religions: Paganism, Judaism, Christianity	5
Ethics and Religion: War and Peace	5
Global Christianity: the Middle East (1800-present)	5
Interpreting Islam: contemporary ijtihad in economics and biomedical ethics	5
Islamic Jurisprudence for Muslims in Europe: The Role of Fatwas	5
Literature and Religion of Ancient Israel	5
Nature and Nature’s God: Christian Religion and Natural Phenomena 1500-1830	5
Philosophy of Religion: Religion and the Natural Sciences	5
Sociology of Religion	5-10
Second semester
Foundations of Early Christian Tradition	5
Hebrew Bible and its Reception	5
Hellenistic Religions: The Lives of Mani, prophet of a world religion	5
Religion, art, and identity of Christian societies in the Middle East	10
European policies and jurisprudence concerning muslims and Islam	5
Religion and Politics	5
Psychology of Religion	5