The aim of this MA programme is to provide students with sufficient methodological, theoretical and historical background so they can understand religious phenomena and problems both in a contemporaneous and a historical contextual framework. Two specialisations are offered: History of Religions studies ideological background, religious-philosophical reasoning and religious idiom of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, while the Applied Study of Religions specialization investigates the religious entities of our modern time basically from a social scientific point of view (i.e. sociological, anthropological, psychological, etc.).