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Courses

Vak 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
Islamic Jurisprudence for Muslims in Europe: The Role of Fatwas 5
European policies and jurisprudence concerning Muslims and Islam 5
Interpreting Islam: contemporary ijtihad in economics and biomedical ethics 5

Electives

Vak EC Semester 1 Semester 2

First semester
Anthropology of Muslim Societies 10
The archaeology of ancient religions: Paganism, Judaism, Christianity 5
Global Christianity: the Middle East (1800-present) 5
Ethics and Religion: War and Peace 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
Comparing Modernities: Judaism, Christianity and Islam 5
Culture and Society in the Medieval Muslim World 10
Foundations of Early Christian Tradition 5
Hebrew Bible and its Reception 5
Hellenistic Religions: The Lives of Mani, prophet of a world religion 5
Jewish Culture: Vienna and the Jews at the Fin-de-siècle 5
Major Trends in Modern Jewish Philosophy 5
Rabbinic and Medieval Judaism: Jewish Mysticism 5
Religion, art, and identity of Christian societies in the Middle East 10
Religion and Politics 5
Psychology of Religion 5