Course topics.

Try this with Religion and Life

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

• Social factors and how people interact with religion
• How one belief, teaching, ritual or practice developed over time
• How a religion uses a structure or process to address important issues
• Differing ways religion is viewed in society
• The significance of a religious event or issue from the past
• The nature of a current issue generating tension and conflict
• How and why a religion responds to tension and conflict
• A significant religious person: life, context and religion
• The concept of freedom from a religious perspective
• Beliefs, teachings, rituals and practices that help the search for freedom
• How and why a religion develops and expresses its beliefs
• Religion in the public life of Australia or another nation
• A religion and an issue within a particular historical context
• A current issue for a religion and how the religion interacts with it
• Core course vocabulary: religion, context, interplay, meaning, freedom
• Origin, purpose and context of sources
• Reliability, usefulness and contestability of sources
• Reading religion data: tables, graphs, indices and survey results
• Religious inquiry: questions, research plans and ethical scholarship
• Critically evaluating a proposition: the Religion and Life essay