Master of Metaphysical Religious Studies: Comparative Religion and Sacred Traditions

Study format, tuition and admissions

Online, self-paced religious study. The current curriculum lists 10 courses and 30 credit hours. Completion depends on meeting the program's academic requirements; no fixed completion time is promised.

Current tuition is $89 per month. Total tuition depends on the number of billed months, not a fixed program total.

New students need program-specific application approval before their first tuition payment. Applicants above Associate level must complete prior-credential review.

Credential recognition

These are church-issued religious credentials, not regionally accredited academic degrees or state licensure. Acceptance by employers and other institutions is not guaranteed. Spiritual care study does not qualify graduates to provide regulated clinical services.

Program courses

• MRS-CRS-501 — Advanced Comparative Religion — Theory and Method

  Master-level comparative religion. Advanced methodology, postcolonial approaches, feminist theory in comparative religion.

• MRS-CRS-502 — Religion Violence and Sacred Extremism

  When religion becomes dangerous. Sacred violence theory, radicalization, de-radicalization ministry, religious extremism research.

• MRS-CRS-503 — Religion Secularization and Post-Secular Sacred

  Religion in secular society. Secularization theory, post-secular turn, spiritual but not religious, sacred outside religion.

• MRS-CRS-504 — Mysticism Across Traditions — Advanced Comparative Study

  Advanced mysticism studies. Perennial philosophy debate, constructivism versus perennialism, mystical literature across traditions.

• MRS-CRS-505 — Sacred Text Interpretation — Advanced Hermeneutics

  Advanced sacred text hermeneutics. Deconstructive approaches, reader-response theory, postcolonial biblical criticism.

• MRS-CRS-506 — Neuroscience and Religious Experience

  Brain science and sacred experience. Neurotheology, mystical experience neuroscience, religious cognition research.

• MRS-CRS-507 — Death and Afterlife Across Sacred Traditions

  Comparative study of death and afterlife. Eschatology, resurrection, reincarnation, ancestor veneration, near death experience.

• MRS-CRS-508 — Sacred Ecology and Religion in the Anthropocene

  Religion and environmental crisis. Green theology, sacred ecology, religion and climate change, Anthropocene sacred thought.

• MRS-CRS-509 — Comparative Religion Research Thesis Seminar

  Thesis preparation seminar. Research question development, methodology selection, literature review, thesis writing and defense.

• MRS-CRS-510 — Comparative Religion Master Capstone

  Integrative capstone. Original comparative religious studies research project or thesis.