There are degrees in Islamic Courses online and in various aspects of preparation for the
ministry available online as well as in the classrooms of seminaries and
Christian universities. If your interest is in comparative religion, you
are better off exploring the options at a traditional university - which by
next fall may be offering those courses online as well, given the pace with
which traditional colleges are adopting distance learning.
There are several
options offered by respected, accredited institutions. The bachelor's
degree programs generally mix a fairly broad choice of academic disciplines
mixed in with classes on spirituality and on Christian theology. The
result is a baccalaureate in Christian Ministry or in other cases, in Theology
and Ministry.
Islamic Courses online
are offering graduate degrees in the field as
well. Liberty University has a mix of twenty two master's programs that
are a mix of MA, MAR, and MDiv degrees. Those are a Master of Arts,
Master of Arts in Religion, and Master of Divinity respectively. Generally,
an MAR degree is recognized as qualification for status in the lay ministry and
preparation for further study. The Masters of Divinity is meant to convey
status as a graduate who is prepared for ordination into a Christian faith.
The Master's of
Divinity options include such areas of focus as Church Ministries, Discipleship
Ministries, Evangelism and Church Planting and Biblical Studies. The
graduate degrees closest to lay studies are the master's degrees in theology,
in professional counseling, and in worship ethnomusicology online islamic studies cover
differing degrees of focus on the evangelical profession, broken out into an
interesting mix or specialties.
There is a college in
Philadelphia offers online courses in the Jewish faith, and one in Los Angeles
that has a distance learning School of Buddhist Studies. There are
schools with online courses in Hinduism and Islam as well, and there is a
directory for comparative religion courses that has developed recently.
Religion has come to the world of digital education, just as every other avenue
of learning led to distance learning.