RE and opinions

What are beliefs?

Do we all have beliefs?

Meditation and music

Who am I? What is the soul?  What is free will and predestination?

What age can I do what? 

Christianity (Baptism)

Believers Baptism

Islam (Tahnik, Aqiqah, and Khitan)

What is discrimination? 

Are people prejudiced in relation to religious clothing and artefacts?

Should Christians work for justice? 

Case Study – Oscar Romera

Forgiveness – could you forgive someone who had killed someone you love?

Assessment

Should everyone be allowed to wear what they want?

Initiation ceremony

Who was Guru Nanak and why is he important in Sikhism?

Why is the Gurdwara important?

Are you born evil?

What do the world religions have to say about suffering in the world?

What is the difference between moral and natural evil?

What is the design argument? 

What is the first cause argument?

Is science in conflict with religion?

Assessment

Is there a point to suffering?

What is commitment? – We are all committed to something

Where do we look for God and can we experience Him? 

Where was God when …

Are books dead?

What is the New Testament?

‘There is no evidence of God’ assessment

Brit Milah

Bar Mitzvah

In sickness and in health

Divorce – should it be allowed?

General

Christian marriage

Islam and Jewish marriage

Hindu

Compare and contrast weddings assessment

Jewish and Muslim

Christian and Islam

What do Jewish people do on Pesach and why? 

If you could create a festival what would it include? 

Assessment

Design your own festival

What do the world religions say about wealth and poverty?

What does Judaism say?

What does Islam say?

What does Christianity say?

What do you think?

The nature of God:

• God as one
• God as Creator
• God as Law-Giver and Judge, loving and merciful
• The divine presence (Shekhinah)
• Beliefs about life after death, including judgement and resurrection
• The nature and role of the Messiah, including different views on the role and importance of the Messiah
• The promised land and the Covenant with Abraham, Genesis 12:1-3
• The Covenant at Sinai and its importance including the role of Moses and the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:1-17

The importance of the sanctity of human life, including the concept of ‘saving a life’ (Pikuach Nefesh)

The relationship between free will and the 613 mitzvot

Mitzvot between man and God and mitzvot between man and man, including the difference between them and their importance.

The synagogue and its importance

The design and religious features of synagogues including reading platform (bimah), ark (aron hakodesh), ever burning light (ner tamid) and associated practices; differences between Orthodox and Reform synagogues.

Synagogue services in both Orthodox and Reform synagogues

the significance of prayer, including the Amidah, the standing prayer

Shabbat in the home and synagogue and its significance

Worship in the home and private prayer

The written law (Tenakh) and the oral law (Talmud), and their study, use and significance in daily life

Dietary laws and their significance, including different Jewish views about their importance

Kosher and Trefah

Separation of milk and meat

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

Pesach

Islam

The six articles of faith in Sunni Islam and five roots of Usul ad-Din in Shi’a Islam, including key similarities and differences

The Oneness of God (Tawhid), Qur’an Surah 112

The nature of God: omnipotence, beneficence, mercy, fairness and justice (Adalat in Shi’a Islam), including different ideas about God’s relationship with the world: immanence and transcendence

Angels, their nature and role, including Jibril and Mika’il

Life after death (Akhirah), human responsibility and accountability, resurrection, heaven and hell

Authority

Prophethood (Risalah) including the role and importance of Adam, Ibrahim and Muhammad

The holy books:

• Qur’an: revelation and authority
• The Torah, the Psalms, the Gospel, the Scrolls of Abraham and their authority

The imamate in Shi’a Islam: its role and significance

Five Pillars of Sunni Islam and the Ten Obligatory Acts of Shi’a Islam

Students should study the Five Pillars and jihad in both Sunni and Shi’a Islam and the additional duties of Shi’a Islam

Declaration of faith and its place in Muslim practice

Salah and its significance

• How and why Muslims pray including times, directions, ablution (wudu), movements (rak’ahs) and recitations
• Salah in the home and mosque and elsewhere
• Friday prayer (Jummah)
• Key differences in the practice of salah in Sunni and Shi’a Islam, and different Muslim views about the importance of prayer

Duties and festivals

Sawm:

The role and significance of fasting during the month of Ramadan including origins, duties, benefits of fasting, the exceptions and their reasons, and the Night of Power, Qur’an 96:1-5.

The role and significance of giving alms including origins, how and why it is given, benefits of receipt, Khums in Shi’a Islam.

Hajj

The role and significance of the pilgrimage to Makkah including origins, how hajj is performed, the actions pilgrims perform at sites including the Ka’aba at Makkah, Mina, Arafat, Muzdalifah and their significance.

Different understandings of jihad: the meaning and significance of greater and lesser jihad; origins, influence and conditions for the declaration of lesser jihad.

Festivals and commemorations and their importance for Muslims in Great Britain today

Including the origins and meanings of Id-ul-Adha, Id-ul-Fitr, Ashura

• Contraception.
• Sexual relationships before marriage
• Homosexual relationships
• Sex, marriage and divorce
• Families and gender equality

Theme B: Religion and life

• Abortion
• Euthanasia
• Animal experimentation
• The origins and value of the universe
• The origins and value of human life

• Visions
• Miracles
• Nature as general revelation

Philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God

The nature of the divine and revelation

• Status of women in religion
• The uses of wealth
• Freedom of religious expression
• Human rights
• Wealth and poverty

Completion of assessments

• Humanist speaker
• Disability awareness
• Animal Rights

https://www.truetube.co.uk/

http://request.org.uk

www.christianitytoday.com

Completion of assessments

• Humanist speaker
• Disability awareness
• Possible ‘Message Trust’
• Animal Rights

https://www.truetube.co.uk/

http://request.org.uk

www.christianitytoday.com

• Manchester University – why study RE?
• ‘My Hajj’ speaker

• Catch up sessions for all students regardless of their ability
• Targeted revision classes
• General revision classes

Visit to a mosque

Visit to a synagogue

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http://request.org.uk

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/religious-studies/gcse/religious-studies-a-8062

www.christianitytoday.com

• Visit to a synagogue
• Jewish woman perspective – Bernette Clarke
• Interfaith – Jewish and Muslim Forum

• Catch up sessions for all students regardless of their ability
• Targeted revision classes
• General revision classes

https://www.truetube.co.uk/

www.christianitytoday.com