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AQA A-Level Religious Studies 7062
Arguments for the Existence of God
Evil and Suffering
Religious Language
Self and Life After Death
Religious Experience
Ethical Theories
Issues of Human Life and Death
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
Bentham and Kant
Issues of Animal Life and Death
Buddhism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityBuddhism
Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion, Gender and SexualityBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and ScienceBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and SecularisationBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and Religious PluralismBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with PhilosophyBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with EthicsBuddhism
Buddhism: God and Ultimate RealityBuddhism
Buddhism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeBuddhism
Buddhism: Expression of Religious IdentityBuddhism
Christianity: God and Ultimate RealityChristianity
Christianity: Self, Death and the AfterlifeChristianity
Christianity: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesChristianity
Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityChristianity
Christianity: Religion and ScienceChristianity
Christianity: Religion and SecularisationChristianity
Christianity: Religion and Religious PluralismChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with PhilosophyChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with EthicsChristianity
Topic overviewKant, Bentham, Virtue Ethics and Christian EthicsAgape, Consequences and Christian CharacterSanctity of Life, Just War and AnimalsEuthanasia, Capital Punishment and Cloning in ChristianityTheft and Truth-TellingMarriage, Homosexuality and Transgender IssuesGenetic Engineering and WealthTolerance and Freedom of Religious ExpressionFree Will, Moral Responsibility and ConscienceCriticisms of Christian EthicsThe Credibility of Christian Moral AuthorityWhat Christianity Has Given Ethical Studies
Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityChristianity
Christianity: Expression of Religious IdentityChristianity
Hinduism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityHinduism
Hinduism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesHinduism
Hinduism: Religion, Gender and SexualityHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and ScienceHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and SecularisationHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and Religious PluralismHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with PhilosophyHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with EthicsHinduism
Hinduism: God and Ultimate RealityHinduism
Hinduism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeHinduism
Hinduism: Expression of Religious IdentityHinduism
Islam: God and Ultimate RealityIslam
Islam: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesIslam
Islam: Religion, Gender and SexualityIslam
Islam: Religion and ScienceIslam
Islam: Religion and SecularisationIslam
Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismIslam
Islam: Dialogue with PhilosophyIslam
Islam: Dialogue with EthicsIslam
Islam: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityIslam
Islam: Self, Death and the AfterlifeIslam
Islam: Expression of Religious IdentityIslam
Judaism: God and Ultimate RealityJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with PhilosophyJudaism
Judaism: Religion and ScienceJudaism
Judaism: Religion and SecularisationJudaism
Judaism: Religion and Religious PluralismJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with EthicsJudaism
Topic overviewKant, Bentham and Jewish EthicsConsequences, Character and Jewish EthicsThe Mitzvot and Tikkun OlamSanctity of Life, Animals, Theft and LyingCapital Punishment, Euthanasia and Cloning in JudaismMarriage, Sexuality and Genetic EngineeringWealth, Tolerance and Religious Freedom in JudaismBechirah Chofshit: Free Will and ConscienceOther Ethical Traditions and Jewish EthicsWhat Ethical Criticism Means for Torah and Halakha
Judaism: Religion, Gender and SexualityJudaism
Judaism: Expression of Religious IdentityJudaism
Judaism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityJudaism
Judaism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeJudaism
Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesJudaism
Buddhism: Religion, Gender and Sexuality
- 1 subtopics
- 8 things to know
- Component 2
- Buddhism, one faith of five studied in Component 2
What Buddhism: Religion, Gender and Sexuality covers
Buddhism: changing thought on gender roles, marriage and sexuality. Part of Component 2, sat only by students who take Buddhism as their chosen religion.
Where it is assessed
Component 2
Buddhism, one faith of five — the study of religion.
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When was the Theravada order of nuns revived?
Key term
How do Buddhist views about homosexuality vary across traditions?
Key term
What three factors relating to Thai society have influenced developments in Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?
Key term
What type of governmental action in Thailand has influenced Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?
Key term
How do different Buddhist traditions vary in their views about celibacy?
Process
How do Buddhists differ over marriage, sexuality and the ordination of nuns?
Process
What brought Thailand into contact with Western lifestyles, and how do Buddhist traditions differ over celibacy and homosexuality?
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Bhikkhu vs Bhikkhuni
Bhikkhu: a fully ordained male monastic. Bhikkhuni: a fully ordained female monastic.
The eight garudhammas vs The Vinaya
The eight garudhammas: the additional rules said to have been imposed on the female order. The Vinaya: the wider code of monastic discipline itself.
Third precept vs Celibacy
Third precept: the undertaking to avoid sexual misconduct. Celibacy: the monastic renunciation of sexual activity altogether.
Questions from this topic
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What major development in Thailand after the 1980s brought encounter with Western lifestyles and values, influencing Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?
Model answer
The development of tourism in Thailand after the 1980s.
- 2
What three factors relating to Thai society have influenced developments in Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?
Model answer
Tourism bringing Western values, changing roles of men and women in society, and rights given to women by secular governments.
- 3
How have changing roles of men and women in Thai society outside of religion affected Buddhism?
Model answer
They have influenced developments in Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality.
- 4
What type of governmental action in Thailand has influenced Buddhist thinking about gender and sexuality?
Model answer
Legal rights that secular Thai governments have extended to women.
- 5
When was the Theravada order of nuns revived?
Model answer
In the late 1990s, following significant debate within the Buddhist community.
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In Theravada Buddhism, who is a leading voice in ongoing arguments over whether women may be ordained and what part they should play?
Model answer
Dhammananda.
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