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Religion Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Religion via distance learning
Study of the world's major religious traditions, including Hinduism and Buddhism, the religions of China and Japan, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This program focuses on the academic study of religion, with special attention to: common dimensions of religious experience; the interaction of religion and culture; theoretical analysis of religious belief and experience; religious expression in myth, ritual, symbol, and social organization; and religious responses to archetypal problems of human experience. Because our lives are strongly affected by other cultures' thoughts and beliefs, a better comprehension of each other facilitates our chance of achieving a safer, more productive, and more caring community. Upon request, this program may be adapted to focus on the study of a single major religion.
Academic Supervisor : Joseph Kariuki Njino
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Religion Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Religion.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Bioethics - Consciousness Studies - Ethics - Humanities - Language Studies - Legal Science - Mythology & Occultism - Philosophy & Critical Thinking - Political Science - Spiritual Science .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Religion Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Religion via distance learning = 51 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Religion Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Religion via distance learning = 51 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Spiritual Science.
Master's Degree - Religion Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Religion via distance learning = 51 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Spiritual Science. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Religion Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Religion via distance learning = 51 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Spiritual Science. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
BIU adapts each Distance Learning Higher Education degree program to the needs of each student. More info...
Religion Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
World Myths & Beliefs
This course analyses religion as a universal aspect of human culture expressed in the form of believes and rituals that deal with supernatural beings, powers, and forces. It focuses on the characteristics of major indigenous beliefs and mythologies. It emphasizes the psychological, religious, and cultural meanings of myth.
Academic Supervisor: Joseph Kariuki Njino
Religion
This course offers an academic study of religion and emphasizes the following topics: common dimensions of religious experience, the interaction of religion and culture, theoretical accounts for religious belief and experience, the religious responses to archetypal problems of human experience, and the religious expression in myth, ritual, symbol, and social organization.
Academic Supervisor: Joseph Kariuki Njino
Moral Principles
This course deals the moral principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group. It examines the body of standards derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion, culture, or personal beliefs. Understanding the moral principles is important because they govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados
Judaism & The Old Testament
This course studies the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), with special attention to the historical development of the religious institutions and the literature of ancient Israel. It covers the background, emergence, development, and progress of the Jewish people tradition. It investigates Judaism and its relationship with heathen, Christian, Islamic, and secular societies over three millennia of time. Religious concepts, such as God, human nature, prophecy, and theodicy are also explored.
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley
Christianism & The New Testament
This course examines the historical/critical aspects of the literature that became scripture for the Christian Church. It emphasizes the interplay between the emerging church and Judaism on the one hand, and between the church and Greco-Roman cultures on the other. It investigates the intellectual development of Christianity, with attention to major Christian thinkers and their positions with regard to the philosophical problems of Christian theology.
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley
Catholicism & The Christian Church
This course studies the origins of the Christian church and its historical development throughout the years as well as the primary influential ideological system that affected it. Also, it addresses major historical epochs and events that shaped and created the contemporary church, in addition to the doctrines, traditions, and institutional forms in their specific historical and cultural contexts.
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley
Islamic Tradition & Fundamentalism
This course explores the religion of Islam in its many facets: Pre-Islamic Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an, the prophetic traditions, tradition and customs, law, theology, major denominations, philosophy, and mysticism. It also studies the relation of worldwide fundamentalism in response to religious modernism and liberalism.
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley
Hinduism & Buddhism
This course explores the ancient and modern aspects of Hinduism, the most important texts of the tradition, and the concepts of gods, the soul, rituals, and doctrines. It also explains the practice of Buddhism, the philosophical theories of the Buddha, meditation, and nirvana, and the impact of Buddhism and Hinduism on today's religion and politics.
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley
Religions of China & Japan
This course introduces the historical texts and contexts of the major Chinese religions from Shang Dynasty shamanic practices to debates about religion in contemporary China. It also presents the Shinto and Japanese Buddhism and their roles in the Japanese society and culture.
Academic Supervisor: Joseph Kariuki Njino
Indian Philosophies
This course addresses the doctrines and arguments of the major Indian schools of philosophy (Samkhya, Buddhist, Vedanta, Nyaya-Vaisesika, and Navya-Nyaya). It demonstrates how these schools ground their religious systems by logically discussing the human soul, God, and the path to nirvana.
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley
Religions in America
This course presents the historical and social development of religion in the United States, including indigenous religions, Protestant and Roman Catholic Christianity, and Judaism. It also covers slave religion and the black church, religion and gender, revivalism and fundamentalism, and new religious movements.
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley
Philosophy of Religion
This course provides a philosophical analysis of the major religious concepts, such as God, the relationship between faith and reason, human nature, freedom of will, immortality, and the problem of evil.
Academic Supervisor: Carmen Ramirez Hurtado
Comparative Religion
This course studies the world's major religious traditions, including Hinduism and Buddhism, the religions of China and Japan, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All our lives are affected by what goes on in other cultures and countries, so the better we understand each other; the better is our chance for achieving a safer, more productive, and more caring community.
Academic Supervisor: Joseph Kariuki Njino
Metaphysics
This course examines problems such as the concepts of existence, essence, god, universals and particulars, the nature of change, possibility, causation, space, and time. Also, it discusses other traditional philosophical issues that form part of metaphysics namely free will, mind/body problem, soul, consciousness, and the existence of abstract entities (e.g. numbers).
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley
Spiritual Science
This course of spiritual science explores the nature of reality without the need for belief or worship. It examines how bodies, consciousness, and the underlying fabric of creation function together. It applies truths of physiology, philosophy, quantum mechanics, bioenergetics and other sciences to understand consciousness, awareness, existence and the universe.
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley
Ethical Dilemmas
This course explores the ethical dilemmas or ethical paradox, a decision-making problem between two possible moral imperatives, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable. The complexity arises out of the situational conflict in which obeying would result in transgressing another. Ethical dilemmas may be invoked to refute an ethical system or moral code, or to improve it so as to resolve the paradox.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados
Contemporary Religious Thought
This course provides an academic study of religion, with attention to: common dimensions of religious experience; the interaction of religion and culture; theoretical accounts of religious believes; religious expression in myth, ritual, symbol, and social organization; and religious responses to human problems.
Academic Supervisor: Joseph Kariuki Njino
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Religion Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ABFR - Associação Brasileira de Filosofia da Religião
ABHR - Associação Brasileira de História das Religiões
ACSRM - Asociación de Cientistas Sociales de la Religión del Mercosur
ADLR - Asociación para la Defensa de la Libertad Religiosa
ASR - Association for the Sociology of Religion
BASR - British Association for the Study of Religions
BSPR - British Society for the Philosophy of Religion
CLLR - Consorcio Latinoamericano de Libertad Religiosa
CRCH - Commission on Religious Counseling and Healing
FEB - Federação Espírita Brasileira
FEREDE - Federación de Entidades Religiosas Evangélicas de España
IAHR - International Association for the History of Religions
IAPR - International Association for the Psychology of Religion
IARF - International Association for Religious Freedom
IRFWP - Inter Religious Federation for World Peace
ISSR - International Society for Science & Religion
NSAC - National Spiritualist Association of Churches
PMA - Pastoral Medical Association
REA - Religious Education Association
RRA - Religious Research Association
SSSR - Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
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Admission requirements - Religion
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Religion Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
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Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Religion Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
