Auezov South Kazakhstan State University
Religious studies, bachelor's degree
Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English, Kazakh, Russian
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Religious Studies bachelor's at South Kazakhstan State University trains graduates with theoretical knowledge and practical skills in religious studies and research methods. You'll study development stages and theoretical approaches, aesthetic, hermeneutic, and psychological aspects of religious experience, classification of religions by moral values, sociological analysis, contemporary movements, comparative world religions, and original-language analysis of sacred texts using grammatical and semiotic methods.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as teachers, researchers, translators of sacred texts, museum or cultural heritage specialists, interfaith coordinators, NGO or community officers, policy advisers, or communications specialists, using skills in analysis, translation, semiotics, and cultural interpretation.
The program aims to train competent graduates with theoretical knowledge and practical skills in religious studies, possessing modern methods of religious science, capable of applying the acquired scientific knowledge in practical reality.
Learning Outcome:
Possess an understanding of the stages of development and formation of religious studies; main theoretical and methodological approaches to religious issues;
Possess a methodological attitude for understanding the specifics of the aesthetic approach to religious experience, preparing students for the perception of works of religious art and analysis of the system of cult symbols and ideals;
understand the psychological characteristics of religious experience;
be able to classify religions following their moral and ethical values;
possess the skills of analyzing modern sociological theories of religion;
Practically characterize modern religious movements and trends;
To navigate the main ideas of world religions, including points of controversy and continuity in the development of religious and philosophical problems;
Analyze religious texts in the original language, apply knowledge of foreign languages to analyze sacred texts, their grammatical and semiotic features.
