Master degree program
Religious Identity in Conflictology

Religious Identity in Conflictology

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Arts

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1. To scientifically substantiate the nature of the conflict, the causes of its occurrence, and their features in various social institutions;
2. To predict ways of solving interethnic and interfaith problems and conflicts based on a logical analysis of general patterns and specific features of ethnic policy;
3. Analyze religious, philosophical, cultural, political, socio-psychological literature in foreign languages;
4. Implement social programs aimed at creating conditions for achieving dialogue, tolerance and consensus both in religious matters and in society;
5. To systematize the main problems and discussions about the methods and strategies of conducting scientific research and the patterns of scientific development;
6. Classify knowledge about the evolution of ideas about conflict, the nature of conflict, its structure, types, causal factors, dynamics, specifics of conflicts in various fields, possible ways of working with them, conditions ensuring their lasting resolution;
7. To participate in the development of appropriate programs aimed at reducing the state of conflict in society, increasing stability and peace in all spheres of society;
8. To carry out expert procedures in relation to conflict potential with the development of their own concept of conflicts in ethnic and religious organizations;
9. To develop educational and methodological materials on the religious studies disciplines taught, taking into account the integration of education, science and innovation;
10. To make methodological developments, recommendations on topical issues in the field of religion, using modern methodological principles and methodological research techniques.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Religious Identity in Conflictology
Speciality Code
7M02204
Faculty
Philosophy and Political Science

disciplines

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 5
  • 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 - 5
  • 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.

History and theoretical foundations of conflictology
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: knowledge and understanding of existing conflicts in modern society, its history and theoretical foundations. The course covers the following topics: the history of conflictology; the concept of conflict, its structure; necessary and sufficient conditions for conflict; conflict dynamics, stages of development; the law of conflict escalation; strategy of behavior of a conflicting personality; rational behavior in conflict.

Methodology and Methods of Conflictological Research
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to explain the theoretical and methodological foundations of conflictology, to study the methodology of scientific research of the conflict-prone potential of the population and their application in practice. The course teaches the methodological, methodological and organizational foundations of empirical conflictological research aimed at gaining knowledge about the state of various ethnic and religious conflictological phenomena in society.

Methodology of the Analysis and Management of the Religious Conflicts
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of practices for the regulation, resolution and management of conflicts in social, professional, multicultural, multiethnic, and multi-confessional communication. In the course of studying the discipline, the following issues are considered: interfaith tolerance as a global problem of our time, types of religious conflicts, causes and consequences of interfaith conflicts, religious fundamentalism, terrorism, extremism, separatism, major religious conflicts of the twentieth century, settlement of religious conflicts.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research (in English )
  • Number of credits - 5
  • 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 Ethno-Religious Identification
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of discipline: formation of ideas about the systemic study of the problem of ethno-religious identity within the framework of the competence system in accordance with the requirements of the specialty. When studying the discipline, theoretical and methodological aspects of identification will be considered; religious and ethnic identity; the relationship between ethnic and confessional identity; the issue of identification in Islam; the issue of religious identification in new religious organizations.

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

Conflict resolution in the professional activity of a religious scholar
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the subject is to master the technology of arbitration conflict resolution in the disclosure and examination of the essence and types of socio-confessional and other conflicts. During the study of the discipline, the following aspects will be identified: specific, empirical studies of conflicts of a social and religious nature, conflicts of spiritual culture; the spiritual sphere of Kazakh society, methodology and methodology for analyzing conflicts in the spiritual sphere.

Conflicts of intercultural communication
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the subject is to form an understanding of the theoretical rules of intercultural communication, understanding and explaining the causes of intercultural conflicts. When studying the discipline, the following are considered the main concepts and types of the theory of intercultural communications; ways of solving intercultural relations; the role of intercultural communications in various spheres of human activity; methodology and technology of research activities in the intercultural sphere.

Kazakhstan model of regulation of ethnic and interconfessional relations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to study the main directions of the modern Kazakhstani model of regulation of ethnic and interdenominational relations. The course examines such relevant factors and ethno-confessional relations in the context of socio-economic and political transformations of Kazakh society as the division of the population into strata in accordance with the criteria of material success, increasing the role of religion and ethnic significance, increasing migration flows.

Legal basis of state-confessional relations
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is the formation of a comprehensive knowledge of the legal foundations of state-confessional relations. The discipline examines the history of domestic state-confessional law, the specification of information on the legal regulation of state-confessional relations in various countries of the world, the problems of implementing the principle of freedom of conscience in different legal systems, attempts to implement legal reforms in Kazakhstan aimed at expanding religious tolerance and freedom of conscience.

Media, Religion and Conflict
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is aimed at forming ideas about the role of the media in conflicts related to religious communities and ideologies. The discipline examines historical and contemporary examples of understanding how media coverage can exacerbate, mediate or resolve religious conflicts. The ethics of covering religious conflicts, the influence of media bias and the use of social media to mobilize religious groups are 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.

Religious identities in modern Kazakhstan
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the subject: the formation of the ability to independently give empirical recommendations based on the results obtained in the course of scientific and theoretical research. The subject covers topics on theoretical and methodological aspects of ethnic studies in the context of ethnopolitical processes and strategies for the identification of the Kazakh people, the ethnic phenomenon in the structure of the Kazakh hierarchy of identification, cognitive analysis of ethnic and national values.

Religious processes in modern geopolitical conditions
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the subject is a socio-philosophical analysis and explanation of religious trends in modern geopolitical conditions. 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.

Social problems in religious teachings
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the subject is to analyze modern problems of religion, the religious situation in society, the role and place of religious studies in the modern world. The topics considered in the study of the discipline are: typology of religious communities: denominations, churches, denominations, sects; social functions of religion; models of social structure and social projects in religious teachings, social orientations of NSD, common in modern Kazakhstan.

The theological foundations and correction of religious identity in conflictology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form an understanding of the phenomenon of religious identity, the process of its formation, religious socialization, resocialization, correction of destructive forms of religious identity in a situation of deviant religious behavior. The course covers the following topics: religious identity as a concept: science and theology; religious identification; components of religious identity; correction of religious identity.

Theory and practice of resolving religious conflicts
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to form an integral system of religious and interfaith concepts and to master the practice of conflict resolution. The subject is aimed at mastering the basic laws of resolving religious conflicts, the mechanisms of functioning of various forms of religious and political interaction, the theory and practice of relations between religious systems, the main forms and types of relations between religion and the state.

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.

Data for 2021-2024 years