Course topics.

Try this with Studies of Religion

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• The Dreaming as the determinant of Aboriginal spirituality: kinship, ceremonial life and obligations to land and people
• The continuing effect of dispossession: separation from land, separation from kinship groups and the Stolen Generations
• Census patterns, the current religious landscape, ecumenism, interfaith dialogue and Reconciliation
• How to answer a Religious Tradition Depth Study: significant people, ethics and practice, and what markers reward
• The contribution and impact of ONE significant person or school of thought other than the Buddha
• Buddhist bioethics, environmental ethics or sexual ethics, and Pilgrimage, Temple Puja or Wesak
• The contribution and impact of ONE significant person or school of thought other than Jesus
• Christian ethical teachings and Baptism, Marriage ceremony or Saturday/Sunday worship
• Shankara, Ramanuja, Gandhi and others; Hindu ethics; Marriage ceremony, Pilgrimage or Temple Worship
• The contribution and impact of ONE significant person or school of thought other than Muhammad and the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs
• Islamic ethical teachings and Friday prayer at the mosque, Funeral ceremony or Hajj
• The contribution and impact of ONE significant person or school of thought other than Abraham or Moses
• Jewish ethical teachings and death and mourning, marriage or Synagogue services
• Peace in the Sutta Pitaka and Dhammapada, the New Testament, the Bhagavad Gita, the Qur'an and Hadith, and the Prophetic vision
• Outlining the principal teachings about peace in TWO religious traditions
• How TWO religious traditions guide the individual towards achieving inner peace
• How TWO religious traditions are contributing to world peace through organisations, statements and action
• Animism, polytheism and monotheism; meaning and purpose, social cohesion and social transformation; global distribution
• Reasons for the rise of new religious expression and the influences of materialism, science, ecology and disenchantment
• Atheism, Agnosticism, Rational and Scientific Humanism, and comparing religious and non-religious responses to the transcendent, the human person and social responsibility