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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
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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
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Christianity: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesChristianity
Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityChristianity
Christianity: Religion and ScienceChristianity
Christianity: Religion and SecularisationChristianity
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Christianity: Dialogue with EthicsChristianity
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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
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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
Christianity: Religion and Secularisation
- 1 subtopics
- 8 things to know
- Component 2
- Christianity, one faith of five studied in Component 2
What Christianity: Religion and Secularisation covers
Christianity: the retreat of religion from public life, militant atheism and the response to materialism. Part of Component 2, sat only by students who take Christianity as their chosen religion.
Where it is assessed
Component 2
Christianity, one faith of five — the study of religion.
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What you need to know
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What do materialistic secular values emphasise?
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What is the House Church movement?
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How does secularisation affect the role of religion in public life versus private life?
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What is a key feature of secularisation that presents religion as irrational?
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How does militant atheism challenge Christianity?
Process
How do Christians respond to materialistic values and to secularisation?
Process
How does Christianity show social relevance, and what has replaced it as authority?
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Disestablishment vs Secularisation
Disestablishment: removing a church's official constitutional status. Secularisation: the wider decline in the social influence of religion.
Believing without belonging vs Belonging without believing
Believing without belonging: holding religious beliefs without attending or joining. Belonging without believing: participating in a religious community without holding its beliefs.
Christian nation vs Established church
Christian nation: the claim that a country's laws and culture rest on Christian foundations. Established church: a church with a formal legal relationship to the state.
Questions from this topic
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What does secularisation involve in terms of the source of truth and moral values in society?
Model answer
Under secularisation, religion is displaced as society's authority on truth and moral values, with that role passing to secular sources.
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How does secularisation affect the role of religion in public life versus private life?
Model answer
Secularisation involves the relegation of religion to the personal sphere rather than the public domain.
- 3
What is a key feature of secularisation that presents religion as irrational?
Model answer
The rise of militant atheism, which characterises religious belief as irrational.
- 4
How does militant atheism challenge Christianity?
Model answer
By arguing that religious belief lacks rational foundation.
- 5
What do materialistic secular values emphasise?
Model answer
The value of wealth and possessions over spiritual concerns.
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How do Christians typically respond to materialistic secular values?
Model answer
By critiquing the prioritisation of wealth and possessions.
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- 1 subtopics: christianity and secularisation. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
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