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Eduqas A-Level Religious Studies A120QS
Christianity: Religious Figures and Sacred TextsChristianity
Christianity: Religious Concepts and Religious LifeChristianity
Christianity: Social and Historical Developments in Religious ThoughtChristianity
Christianity: Practices That Shape Religious IdentityChristianity
Islam: Religious Figures and Sacred TextsIslam
Islam: Religious Concepts and Religious LifeIslam
Islam: Social and Historical Developments in Religious ThoughtIslam
Islam: Practices That Shape Religious IdentityIslam
Judaism: Religious Figures and Sacred TextsJudaism
Judaism: Religious Concepts and Religious LifeJudaism
Judaism: Social and Historical Developments in Religious ThoughtJudaism
Judaism: Practices That Shape Religious IdentityJudaism
Buddhism: Religious Figures and Sacred TextsBuddhism
Buddhism: Religious Concepts and Religious LifeBuddhism
Buddhism: Social and Historical Developments in Religious ThoughtBuddhism
Buddhism: Practices That Shape Religious IdentityBuddhism
Hinduism: Religious Figures and Sacred TextsHinduism
Hinduism: Religious Concepts and Religious LifeHinduism
Topic overviewBrahman and atman: monism, dualism and the Vedanta schoolsThe Trimurti, cyclical time, Vaishnavism and ShaivismKarma, samsara and the goal of mokshaVarnashramadharma: the four varnas and four ashramasThe status of the Dalits: Gandhi, Ambedkar and afterAhimsa from Jain roots to Gandhi's satyagraha
Hinduism: Social and Historical Developments in Religious ThoughtHinduism
Hinduism: Practices That Shape Religious IdentityHinduism
Sikhism: Religious Figures and Sacred TextsSikhism
Topic overviewGuru Nanak's background and the influences on his teachingGuru Nanak's revelation, teachings and the community at KartarpurGuru Gobind Singh and the founding of the KhalsaThe Guru Granth Sahib as living GuruThe Mul Mantar and the Japji SahibGuru Arjan and the empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh
Sikhism: Religious Concepts and Religious LifeSikhism
Sikhism: Social and Historical Developments in Religious ThoughtSikhism
Topic overviewKhalistan, persecution and the politics of the PunjabEquality of men and women in SikhismSikh attitudes to other faiths and interfaith dialogueSikhism, science and secularisationOrigins and development of the Sikh community in BritainMiri and piri, the kirpan and defending the oppressed
Sikhism: Practices That Shape Religious IdentitySikhism
Arguments for the Existence of God: Inductive
Arguments for the Existence of God: Deductive
The Problem of Evil and Suffering
Religious Belief as a Product of the Human Mind
Religious Experience
Topic overviewVisions and religious conversionMysticism, Teresa of Avila and the stages of prayerWilliam James's four marks and Otto's numinousChallenges to the authenticity of religious experienceThe value of religious experience for the individual and the communityDefining miracles and the Hume–Swinburne debate
Religious Language
Ethical Thought
Deontological Ethics
Topic overviewAquinas's four levels of law and the primary preceptsVirtues, goods and the moral act in AquinasNatural law applied: abortion and voluntary euthanasiaFinnis, the basic goods and practical reasonablenessHoose and the proportionalist debateFinnis and proportionalism applied: immigration and capital punishment
Teleological Ethics
Topic overviewFletcher's rejection of legalism and antinomianismThe working principles and the six propositionsSituation ethics applied: homosexual and polyamorous relationshipsBentham, utility and the hedonic calculusMill: higher pleasures, the harm principle and rulesUtilitarianism applied: animal experimentation and nuclear deterrence
Determinism
Sikhism: Social and Historical Developments in Religious Thought
- 6 subtopics
- 18 things to know
- Component 1
- Sikhism, one religion of six studied in Component 1
What Sikhism: Social and Historical Developments in Religious Thought covers
Sikhism: Social and Historical Developments in Religious Thought is examined in Component 1: A Study of Religion — one religion is chosen from six, so this topic is examined only if your centre teaches Sikhism. It covers Khalistan, persecution and the politics of the Punjab, equality of men and women in Sikhism, Sikh attitudes to other faiths and interfaith dialogue, Sikhism, science and secularisation, origins and development of the Sikh community in Britain and Miri and piri, the kirpan and defending the oppressed.
Where it is assessed
Component 1
A Study of Religion, if Sikhism is the religion your centre teaches.
Check the Eduqas specification ↗The 6 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Khalistan, persecution and the politics of the PunjabHuman cost of Partition in the Punjab, punjabi Suba movement and anandpur Sahib Resolution.Open →
- Equality of men and women in SikhismMañjī system and anand Kāraj.Open →
- Sikh attitudes to other faiths and interfaith dialogueDifference between diversity and pluralism, sikh participation in interfaith work and difference between Khālsā and non-Khālsā Sikhs.Open →
- Sikhism, science and secularisationScriptural passages read alongside modern cosmology, the scholars who read them that way, and the pressures of a secular society.Open →
- Origins and development of the Sikh community in BritainFrom the first gurdwārā before the First World War to legal recognition, dress exemptions and the largest institutions today.Open →
- Miri and piri, the kirpan and defending the oppressedWords degh and tegh, motto degh tegh fateh and sikh liberationist thinking.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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What did Guru Nanak say about the standing of women, and what are those passages cited for?
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What is diversity, what did Nanak declare about Hindus and Muslims, and whose hymns stand in the scripture?
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What is the Sikh account of creation?
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When did Sikhs first come to Britain?
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What does mīrī mean?
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What is Khalistan?
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What did Guru Nanak teach about the worth of women?
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What is the difference between diversity and pluralism?
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How does Sikh teaching relate to the Big Bang?
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When was the first gurdwārā in Britain established?
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What does pīrī mean?
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What happened at Jallianwala Bagh on 13 April 1919?
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What does Ādi Granth 473 say about the place of women in human life?
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What did Guru Nanak teach about Hindu and Muslim identity?
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What does the Sukhmanī passage at Ādi Granth 276 say about creation?
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What caused large-scale Sikh migration to Britain?
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Where does the doctrine of mīrī and pīrī originate?
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Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Khālsā Sikh vs Sahajdhārī Sikh
Khālsā Sikh: an initiated Sikh who has taken amrit and keeps the five Ks. Sahajdhārī Sikh: A Sikh who follows the teaching without taking initiation.
Punjabi Suba vs Khalistan
Punjabi Suba: a demand for a state within India defined by its language. Khalistan: A demand for a sovereign state outside India.
Operation Blue Star vs The 1984 anti-Sikh violence
Operation Blue Star: the army assault on the Harmandir complex in June 1984. The 1984 anti-Sikh violence: The pogroms that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination that October.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
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What is Khalistan?
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Khalistan is the name given to a proposed sovereign Sikh state in the Punjab. Support for the demand has varied greatly across the Sikh world.
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What happened at Jallianwala Bagh on 13 April 1919?
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Troops under Brigadier-General Dyer fired on an unarmed crowd in an enclosed garden at Amritsar. The official inquiry counted at least 379 dead, and Indian estimates were far higher.
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Why is the Jallianwala Bagh massacre so important to Sikhs?
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The killing took place on Vaisākhī, in the Sikhs' holiest city. Punjabi distrust of British rule hardened permanently afterwards.
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Why is it inaccurate to describe Jallianwala Bagh as a purely Sikh massacre?
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The crowd contained Hindus and Muslims as well as Sikhs. Punjabis of every community were killed together that day.
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What happened to the Punjab at Partition in 1947?
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The Radcliffe Line divided the Punjab between India and Pakistan. Sikhs lost Nankana Sahib and Kartārpur, the sites of Guru Nanak's birth and death.
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What was the human cost of Partition in the Punjab?
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Hundreds of thousands were killed in communal violence across the province. Millions of Sikhs and Hindus fled east while Muslims fled west.
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Sikhism: Social and Historical Developments in Religious Thought revision questions
- What does Sikhism: Social and Historical Developments in Religious Thought cover in Eduqas A-Level Religious Studies?
- 6 subtopics: khalistan, persecution and the politics of the punjab, equality of men and women in sikhism, sikh attitudes to other faiths and interfaith dialogue, sikhism, science and secularisation, origins and development of the sikh community in britain and miri and piri, the kirpan and defending the oppressed. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Sikhism: Social and Historical Developments in Religious Thought organised?
- By the Eduqas A120QS specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
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