Seminaries and Bible Colleges
With Uralica being an officially Christian country, there is no shortage of seminaries or Bible colleges. The difference between the two is that a Bible college will offer diplomas, degrees, certificates, or other pre-seminary training to equip the Christian to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, while a seminary will offer full-blown vocational training and typically does not offer diploma programs. It's like the difference between a college and a university, basically.
While the best-known seminaries in Uralica are directly attached to universities (and indeed, many major universities, including Uralikan Yliopisto, the University of Yekaterinburg, and Uralica Baptist University, have attached seminaries), a few seminaries are also independent. Bible colleges, on the other hand, are independent as a rule. (They do have partnerships, but are autonomous from other colleges.
Seminaries
Seminaries are treated in much the same way as universities, and tend to offer humanities classes and sometimes also linguistics, archaeology, and music classes on top of the typical seminary package, which includes everything from homiletics (preaching studies) to pastoral counselling, to worship leadership studies. Even though Uralica has three major denominations with very different histories, the offered package doesn't really vary that much.
Focussed more specifically on religious education, there are many Bible college campuses in Uralica, mostly fairly small (as in under a thousand a pop), but the average for cities is five campuses.
The yeshiva is to Judaism what the seminary is to Christianity. Besides Ben-Shlomo, which is attached to a university, there are fourteen independent single-campus yeshivas within Uralica. On average, these are significantly larger than Bible colleges (because there are so few of them) but not always as big as seminaries.
There are four madaris (sing. madrasa) in Uralica, which in the context of Uralica are Islamic seminaries. Each madrasa follows a specific madhhab - the one in Ägerce, for example, is Hanafi Sunni, the one in Barda is Sufi Hanafi Sunni, and the two small ones in Yekaterinburg are Shafi'i and Shi'a (Jafari) respectively. Although there are other religions in Uralica, very few of them actually offer education in their specific religion. There is a college in Yoshkar-Ola - the Marla College - that teaches various subjects from a Marla Faith worldview.
With Uralica being an officially Christian country, there is no shortage of seminaries or Bible colleges. The difference between the two is that a Bible college will offer diplomas, degrees, certificates, or other pre-seminary training to equip the Christian to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, while a seminary will offer full-blown vocational training and typically does not offer diploma programs. It's like the difference between a college and a university, basically.
While the best-known seminaries in Uralica are directly attached to universities (and indeed, many major universities, including Uralikan Yliopisto, the University of Yekaterinburg, and Uralica Baptist University, have attached seminaries), a few seminaries are also independent. Bible colleges, on the other hand, are independent as a rule. (They do have partnerships, but are autonomous from other colleges.
Seminaries
Seminaries are treated in much the same way as universities, and tend to offer humanities classes and sometimes also linguistics, archaeology, and music classes on top of the typical seminary package, which includes everything from homiletics (preaching studies) to pastoral counselling, to worship leadership studies. Even though Uralica has three major denominations with very different histories, the offered package doesn't really vary that much.
- Seminary of St. Kirill and St. Mefodey (Syktyvkar). Named after two of the three the co-patron saints of Uralica in the Apostolic Church, who first translated the Bible into Old Church Slavonic. (For those interested, the third is St. Simon the Zealot.)
- Seminary of the Theotokos (Verkhnyaya Pyshma, GYK). Another Apostolic seminary, it uses the Greek word for the Virgin Mary's title, since the English moniker "Mother of God" (and its various translations) have fallen out of favour due to Reformed influence and trying to shy away from the appearance of deifying Mary.
- John Knox Seminary (Syktyvkar). Run by the Presbyterian Church of Uralica, and named after the father of Scottish Presbyterianism. Entire programs available in eight different languages - English, Plautdietsch, Russian, Finnish, Hungarian, Komi-Zyrian, Permyak, and Tundra Nenets. Working on curriculum for Komi-Yodz and Udmurt as well.
- Calvin Reformed Seminary (Petroskoi, KAR). Although there is a Reformed Church of Uralica (it's fairly small), this seminary is actually jointly run by the PCU, the URBC, and the RCU. Uralica's largest independent seminary (one not tied to a university), it has twenty thousand seats and offers its programs in all four of Uralica's official languages, plus Standard Karelian, Veps, Estonian,
- Uralikkalaisen Baptistin Seminaari (Viipuri, KAR). This URBC-run seminary is Finnish-only.
- Urálika Apostoli Szemináriuma (Juganvar, YGR). Hungarians from outside of Uralica are mostly Catholic, so it's no surprise that roughly half of Hungarians in Uralica are Apostolics (actually, Uralican Hungarians are roughly 45% Apostolic, 40% Presbyterian, 13% Baptist, and 2% other Christian) and as such this is the largest Hungarian-language seminary in Uralica.
- Urálika Baptista Szemináriuma (Yugrakar, YGR). A smaller seminary with its programs in Hungarian, Khanty, and Mansi. Also offers programs in linguistics, various cultural studies, small-business administration, and some professional programs.
- Uralican Pentecostal Seminary (Yekaterinburg, GYK). Uralica's smallest independent seminary. Run by the Uralican Pentecostal Church, which is quite conservative, disavowing the New Apostolic Reformation (not to be confused with the Uralican Reformed Apostolic Church!), prosperity gospel, and Oneness Pentecostalism.
- St. Thomas Lutheran Seminary (Pazhga, KML). Really isn't that big. Classes primarily in English or Finnish, with some programs also available in Plautdietsch.
Focussed more specifically on religious education, there are many Bible college campuses in Uralica, mostly fairly small (as in under a thousand a pop), but the average for cities is five campuses.
- Baptist Bible College of Uralica - without exception, every city in Uralica has at least one campus of this. It's worth noting, too, that the smallest college campus in Uralica - a whopping twenty-five seats - is a BBCU campus, located in Belushya Guba, Nenetsia. Greater Yekaterinburg alone has eleven campuses of this - seven in Yekaterinburg proper, two in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, and one each in Aramil and Beryozovski. The HQ, though, is in Pazhga. Taken at the sum total of campuses, it is one of just four institutes - the others being State College of Uralica, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Bible College, and the Uralican Military College - that have full programs available in every official language, national or state, in Uralica.
- Ligonier College - founded by Ligonier Ministries from the New Confederacy and having a partnership with RC Sproul University and Seminary in Kirov, this non-denominational Christian college shares the same goals as its affiliate university. Every city over a population of fifty thousand has at least one campus. The HQ is in Pazhga.
- St. Andrew's Presbyterian Bible College - Where the URBC has BBCU, the PCU has this multi-campus Bible college, which has campuses in most, but not all, Uralican cities - the exceptions are typically overwhelmingly Baptist cities like Kukarka, KRV, Krasnoslobodsk, MRD, or Naryan-Mar, NEN, or overwhelmingly Apostolic cities like Tráty, KML. The number of exceptions is a mere fourteen out of 184 Uralican cities. There are also small campuses in some larger towns, like Aunus, KAR or Ürzhüm, KRV. The HQ is in Syktyvkar.
- Redeemer Apostolic College - the smallest of the "larger" Bible colleges in Uralica, some fifty cities have campuses, including every city in Yugra. The HQ, however, is in Vologda, an Old Novgorodian city dating back to the twelfth century with a rich Eastern Orthodox heritage.
- Spirit Fire Bible College (Yekaterinburg). Uralica's only Pentecostal Bible college.
- Molokan College. With campuses in Insar (where the HQ is), Saransk, and Chaunza, this is the college of the modern Molokan tradition.
- Melanchthon Lutheran College. Since the primary denomination of Christianity in Finland is Evangelical Lutheranism, it should surprise nobody that the college representing Uralica's Lutheran population has its strongest presence in Karelia, where seven out of eleven of the campuses of this college reside. Petroskoi, Viipuri, Segezha, Enso, Karhumägi, Käkisalmi, and Kondupohju (where the HQ is) all have small campuses. Outside of Karelia, the campuses are in Kolosjoki, Öskölömi, Pazhga, and Kirov.
The yeshiva is to Judaism what the seminary is to Christianity. Besides Ben-Shlomo, which is attached to a university, there are fourteen independent single-campus yeshivas within Uralica. On average, these are significantly larger than Bible colleges (because there are so few of them) but not always as big as seminaries.
- Yeshiva Torah Uralika (Berezniki, SBZ). Uralica's first Yeshiva, dating all the way back to mid-2008. Also the third-largest.
- Midreshet Torah Uralika (Solikamsk, SBZ)
- Combined School of Uralican Rabbinical Judaism (Nizhny Tagil)
- West Uralica Yeshiva (Cherepovets)
- Yeshiva of East Uralica (Rezh, SEU)
- Jesivajuk Magyarzsidók (Surgut, and Tráty, KML)
- Yeshiva Torah Sichtivkar (Syktyvkar)
- Gamaliel Yeshiva (Izhevsk). Uralica's largest yeshiva at thirty-six thousand seats.
- Udmurt Yeshiva of the Tanakh (Votka, UDM). Uralica's second-largest yeshiva.
- South Udmurtia Yeshiva (Mozhga, UDM). Uralica's newest Yeshiva, having opened in 2017.
- Yeshiva Sibir-v'Ma'arav (Juganvar, YGR).
- Yeshiva v'Sap'mi (Murmansk, SAP). The world's northernmost Yeshiva.
- Arctic Yeshiva (Vorkuta, KML). Uralica's smallest yeshiva.
- Uralican Baltic Yeshiva (Viipuri, KAR).
There are four madaris (sing. madrasa) in Uralica, which in the context of Uralica are Islamic seminaries. Each madrasa follows a specific madhhab - the one in Ägerce, for example, is Hanafi Sunni, the one in Barda is Sufi Hanafi Sunni, and the two small ones in Yekaterinburg are Shafi'i and Shi'a (Jafari) respectively. Although there are other religions in Uralica, very few of them actually offer education in their specific religion. There is a college in Yoshkar-Ola - the Marla College - that teaches various subjects from a Marla Faith worldview.
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