Master degree program
Religious Studies

Religious Studies

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Arts

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1. To independently conduct seminars, practical, laboratory classes, taking into account
the requirements of the developed and approved methodological instructions;
2. Conduct religious expertise and draw up expert opinions;
3. Determine the nature and specifics of religious studies and critically assess the
significance of religious phenomena in modern society, the role of religious studies in modern integration processes;
4. Differentiate the stages of development of religious processes according to the main
modern concepts of world and Kazakhstani religious studies, their main authors, schools and directions, conceptual differences between them, the main content of contemporary religious studies;
5. Work with information and analytical systems that provide collection, processing,
storage and analysis of data, with the aim of obtaining a qualitatively new religious knowledge;
6. To carry out scientific design of various types (research project, scientific article,
dissertation, etc.) in the field of the history of Kazakhstani and foreign religious studies;
7. Organize interaction with the media, advise, process and provide materials about
religion to government organizations of various profiles, public organizations;
8. Analyze the situation, make creative and innovative proposals for improving work,
and make management decisions

Program passport

Speciality Name
Religious Studies
Speciality Code
7M02203
Faculty
Philosophy and Political Science

disciplines

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

Main Issues of Modern Sociology and Psychology of Religion
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of the capacity for independent analysis of social and psychological patterns of the emergence, development and functioning of religious phenomena. In the course of studying the discipline, the main social and psychological theories of religion, the social functions of religion, religious consciousness, activity, relations, synthesis of organizations, the relationship between religion and economics, the psychology of religion in the system of religious studies are considered.

Methodology of Religious Studies
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course aims to develop the skills to interpret the key methodological problems of the modern study of religion. The discipline forms the basic methodological principles, their weaknesses, strengths; summarizes the data obtained in the conduct of scientific research. The discipline is aimed at studying the main controversial issues of modern methodology of religious research.

Modern Problems of Religious Studies
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course aims to form the ability to think critically in the field of modern religious knowledge. The course forms a theoretical and methodological basis for understanding the nature of contemporary religious problems. The study of this discipline involves consideration of the retrospective of religious studies, its subject field as a science, the problem field of modern religious studies trends, critical understanding of religious studies knowledge, and trends in the development of religious studies in Kazakhstan.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English )
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to develop the ability to articulate the problems and tasks of scientific research, choose the appropriate methodology, determine the stages of research, manage organizations, units, groups, projects and networks; to prepare analytical materials to manage scientific processes and assess their effectiveness, to use experimental techniques to analyze processes in different spheres of society within the scientific directions.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Problems of understanding and interpretation of religious texts
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course aims to form the ability to interpret and analyze texts of diverse content and orientation, as scientific, philosophical, sacred, etc., to allocate the basic stages of text analysis, prove the importance of the ability to analyze a sacred text in the humanitarian knowledge. The discipline is aimed at studying a wide range of theological problems, independent expert activity and leadership of expert and advisory groups.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

Scientific and Methodological aspects of radicalization and deradicalization
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course aims to assimilate theoretical approaches and models of radicalization, principles of formation of anti-terrorist values, persistent non-acceptance of the ideology of violence by society. The course examines the subjects, forms and signs of radicalization, effective counter-narratives against radical propaganda, and the process of radicalization of young people, including in social networks.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Actual problems of religious education
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to form scientific views among on the specifics of religious education, the values and ideals of various religions. The discipline considers the scientific and pedagogical problems of religious education, the main categories and concepts, institutional problems, applied and communicative problems of religious education, theoretical areas of religious education: hermetics, didactics, empirical and developmental psychology, religious education in modern Kazakhstan.

Analytics of modern Kazakhstan religiosity
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course to develop the ability to analyze the conditions, the process of formation and development of the principles of secularism in the public consciousness. The course is aimed at studying: the stages of the formation of a secular state in Kazakhstan, the conceptual foundations, concepts, types, principles of secularism in modern society and religiosity, as well as the role and place of religion in the internal policy of Kazakhstan.

Comparative Religious Studies
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is classification, comparison and analysis in order to determine species, morphology of phenomena, comprehensive relations, rules and laws of religions. During the course of the course, the features and connections of the dialogue between West and East in the field of religious studies will be considered.

Legal regulation of the religious sphere
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to study the main trends and patterns of legal regulation of religious activities in the field of religion. During the course, the legal aspects of state and religious relations, the state and religion, rules and regulations for religious activities will be considered.

Mediative potential of world religions
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to find technological solutions to a scientific problem, to distinguish between the definitions of the concepts “religious conflict” and “religious component. The course is aimed at analyzing the main approaches and methods of conflict resolution in religious mediation, mediation institutions in resolving conflict situations related to religious views, trends in the emergence of opportunities for the development of conflicts of a religious composition, opportunities for mediation in the context of religious conflicts.

Methods of Religious Expertise
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to develop the ability to analyze the basic principles and legislative bases of religious expertise. During the course, the legislative framework for conducting religious studies expertise, requirements for experts and ethical aspects, principles and methods of conducting expertise will be considered.

Modern religious processes
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to apply different methods of analysis and interpretation of socio-philosophical research of religious processes. The discipline is aimed at studying the basic principles of the constituent religious processes, their correlation and interdependence, depending on the consideration of confessional characteristics due to the differences of the religious organizations under consideration; the main directions for optimizing interreligious dialogue in maintaining stability.

Religion in the Media Space
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course examines the ways traditional and nontraditional media recreate, reconstruct, and interpret religious experience, values, behaviour, and traditions. The course seeks to explore the relationship between media and religion, and the role and function of religion in media space.

Religious Policy in the Central Asian countries
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to give a comparative analysis of the features of public policy in the field of religion in the countries of Central Asia. During the study of the subject, issues of the religious situation in the countries of Central Asia, legal support of freedom of conscience and religion of CA citizens, the rights and obligations of religious associations, regulation of state-confessional relations in CA will be considered.

Religisioty and religious practices
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to critically evaluate existing methods of analysis from philosophical and religious positions, the content and meaning of religious practices in society. The discipline is aimed at studying: the classification of religious practices, the diversity of its manifestations in the modern era, the processes of constituting the understanding of "alien" and "other" static and dynamic aspects of religious practices.

Scientific and Methodological aspects of radicalization and de-radicalization
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The course aims to assimilate theoretical approaches and models of radicalization, principles of formation of anti-terrorist values, persistent non-acceptance of the ideology of violence by society. The course examines the subjects, forms and signs of radicalization, effective counter-narratives against radical propaganda, and the process of radicalization of young people, including in social networks.

Secularity and Religiosity in modern Kazakhstan
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the subject is the formation of socially significant secular values with the study of the main principles of secularism and religiosity in the public consciousness. During the course, the theoretical and methodological aspects of research on religion and secularism, issues of religion and secularism in the processes of integration of society, the value system in the perception of religion and religiosity are considered.

State-confessional Relations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to study the laws and trends in the legal regulation of the activities of modern religious associations. The course is aimed at forming an analysis and systematization of legislative problems and its application at the legal level in the field of interaction between the state and religious associations.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита НИР
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years