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===Applied Study of Religions===

Costa <ref>* {{cite book |last=Costa |first=Matheus O. |year=2019 |title=Applied study of Religions as third branch of Religionswissenschaft: history, analysis and professional proposals |location=São Paulo |publisher=PhD Dissertation in Study of Religion at PUC-SP |url=https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/22356 }}</ref> argued that Applied Study of Religions is the third branch of the discipline of Study of Religion. That was the new practice part of this area, together with the two classical branches of Joachim Wach (the historical and the systematic branches). Scholars of religions in Germany, Noruega, Brazil, the United States of America, and Japan have trying to think about what is "Applied Religious Studies" or "Applied Study of Religions", and how to do this <ref>STERN, Fábio L.; COSTA, Matheus O. (Ed.) Ciência da Religião Aplicada: ensaios pela autonomia e aplicação profissional. Porto Alegre: Editora Fi, 2018. ISBN: 978-85-5696-506-6
|url=https://www.editorafi.org/506religiao</ref>. But, more directly, Costa maintains that all professional practice based on the research result of the discipline of the Study of Religions can be seen as an Applied Study of Religions. The most noticed is the study of religions at schools in Sweden and Brazil promoted by scholars of religions, but so many other examples are being thought in the health, culture, or human rights areas.

==Religious studies and theology==