Religion & Life: Christianity
2nd Edition
Hodder Education
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
September 2009
ISBN: 9780340986783
112 pages, Illustrated
$38.50 Paper Original
Summary:
Written by senior examiners, this second edition of Religion and Life: Christianity has been fully revised to meet the structure, content and assessment requirements of the new Edexcel GCSE in Religious Studies Specification A, Unit 2. This new edition integrates the requirements of the new GCSE into the familiar and proven format of the previous edition, with:
* exam-specific advice, questions and model answers
* a clear, accessible
structure to guide students through the course
*
student-focused features
to aid learning such as key terms and summary boxes
* up-to-date photos and
examples.
Revised to meet the structure, content and assessment requirements of the 2009 Edexcel GCSE Religious Studies specification. Covers Citizenship KS4 Programme of Study. Written by Victor Watton and Diane Kolka - experienced authors and examiners.
Table of Contents:
Section 1 Believing in God
Introduction
1.1 Christian
upbringing
1.2 Religious experience
1.3 The argument from design and belief
in God
1.4 The argument from causation and belief in God
1.5 Scientific explanations
of the world and agnosticism and atheism
1.6 How Christians respond to scientific
explanations of the world
1.7 How unanswered prayers may lead to agnosticism
or atheism
1.8 How Christians respond to unanswered prayers
1.9 Evil and
suffering
1.10 How Christians respond to the problem of evil and suffering
1.11 How two programmes about religion could affect a person’s attitude
to belief in God
How to answer exam questions
Section 2 Matters of life and
death
Introduction
2.1 Christian beliefs about life after death
2.2 Non-religious
reasons for believing in life after death
2.3 Why some people do not believe
in life after death
2.4 The nature of abortion
2.5 Christian attitudes to
abortion
2.6 The nature of euthanasia
2.7 Christian attitudes to euthanasia
2.8 The media and matters of life and death
2.9 The causes of world poverty.
2.10 How and why one Christian agency is trying to end world poverty.
2.11
How an issue from matters of life and death has been presented in one form
of the media
How to answer exam questions
Section 3 Marriage and the family
Introduction
3.1 Changing attitudes to marriage and family life
3.2 Christian
attitudes to sex outside marriage
3.3 The purposes of marriage in Christianity
and the wedding ceremony
3.4 Christian attitudes to divorce
3.5 Why family
life is important for Christians
3.6 How Christian churches help with the
upbringing of children.
3.7 How Christian churches help to keep the family
together
3.8 Christian attitudes to homosexuality
3.9 Different methods of
contraception and the reasons for them.
3.10 Different Christian attitudes
to contraception
3.11 How an issue from marriage and the family has been
presented in one form of the media
How to answer exam questions
Section 4
Religion and community cohesion
Introduction
4.1 How and why attitudes to
the roles of men and women have changed in the United Kingdom
4.2 Different
Christian attitudes to equal rights for women in religion
4.3 The nature
of the United Kingdom as a multi-ethnic society
4.4 Government action to
promote community cohesion in the United Kingdom
4.5 The work of a Christian
Church to help asylum seekers and/or immigrant workers
4.6 Why Christians
should help to promote racial harmon
4.7 Differences among Christians in
their attitudes to other religions
4.9 Issues raised for religion by a multi-faith
society
4.10 Ways in which religions work to promote community cohesion in
the United Kingdom
4.11 How an issue from religion and community cohesion
has been presented in one form of the media
How to answer exam questions