Year 12 · TCE / Studies of Religion
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- Close your notes and write the main idea in two sentences from memory.
- Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
- Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.
Topics in the resource inventory
- What is a religion? Smart's dimensions and the four disciplinary lenses
- The divine and ultimate reality across Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism
- Human purpose, the human condition, death and the afterlife
- Working from practice to belief: ritual, worship, story and sacred text
- Christian variants: the Great Schism, the Reformation and Catholic–Orthodox–Protestant differences
- Sunni and Shi'a, Orthodox and Progressive Judaism, Theravada and Mahayana, Vaishnava and Shaiva
- Conflict, cooperation and the Section A stimulus essay (Criterion 6)
- How a tradition's view of human nature and purpose shapes its understanding of suffering
- Guidance and solace in suffering, why suffering is allowed, and using the case study
- Sources of religious moral guidance: commandments, precepts, leaders, stories and sanctity of life
- Religious ethics case studies: ecology, medical intervention, social justice, war and relationships
- Section B: rationale, reinforcement and response (Criterion 7) and choosing Question 3 or 4
- Depth-study thinking: change or lack of change, contexts, sources, coherence and consistency (Criterion 8)
- Topic A — Women and religion: teaching, change and points of view
- Topic B — Contemporary war or conflict: just war, pacifism and peacemaking
- Topic C — Religious ethics: tradition-based reasoning on a contemporary dilemma
- Topic D — Science and religion: models of relationship and contemporary challenges
- Topic E — Aboriginal Spirituality: Country, kinship, continuity and adaptation
- The five externally assessed criteria: what A, B and C responses do
- Sixty-minute essays: planning, thesis, evidence from authoritative sources and time management
Resource inventory inspected 4 November 2026. The main ATARMAXXING study platform is separate from tutoring. Topic labels show what was found, not a guarantee of complete curriculum coverage or tutor availability.
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