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Religious Studies - H573
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Free Religious Studies - H573 revision notes for Cambridge OCR A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Philosophy of religion: God, the soul and religious experience
Ancient philosophical influences
Soul, mind and body
Arguments based on observation
Arguments based on reason
Religious experience
Philosophy of religion: evil, the nature of God and religious language
The problem of evil
The nature or attributes of God
Religious language: negative, analogical or symbolic
Religious language: twentieth century perspectives
Religion and ethics: normative ethical theories
Natural law
Situation ethics
Kantian ethics
Utilitarianism
Religion and ethics: applied ethics and developments in ethical thought
Euthanasia
Business ethics
Ethical language: meta-ethics
Conscience: Aquinas and Freud
Sexual ethics
Developments in Christian thought (03)
Augustine's teaching on human nature
Death and the afterlife
Knowledge of God's existence
The person of Jesus Christ
Christian moral principles and moral action (Bonhoeffer)
Religious pluralism: theology and society
Gender: society and theology
Secularism and liberation theology
Developments in Islamic thought (04)
Prophecy and revelation
Tradition: Hadith, Sira, Sunni and Shi'a
God is One
Human destiny
The Shari'a and Sufism
Science, philosophy and gender equality
Tolerance, justice and liberation
Islam and the state; Islam in Europe
Developments in Jewish thought (05)
Jewish oral and written law
Covenant in the Torah
Maimonides: Jewish theologian and philosopher
Suffering and hope
Halakhah and conversion
The Jewish Haskalah, emancipation and Zionism
The State of Israel and Jewish feminism
Post-Holocaust theology and Chagall
Developments in Buddhist thought (06)
The Buddha
Taking refuge
Samsara
The three marks of existence
Four noble truths and meditation
Mahayana, Madhyamaka and Prajnaparamita
Buddhism in the Far East and in the West
Engaged Buddhism, activism and gender
Developments in Hindu thought (07)
Development and diversity
Wisdom and authority
Brahman and the self
Samsara and karma
Dharma and living in accordance with dharma
Vedanta and Hinduism as 'religion'
Hinduism in India and in the West
Equality, discrimination and social reform
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