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Year 10 Religious education Study Guides
Every lesson below links to a pupil-friendly study guide with key notes, vocabulary, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Belief: what is religion and does everyone understand it in the same way?
Buddhism: beliefs
- Buddhahood and the Pure Land Study Guide
- Gautama Buddha's life and its significance Study Guide
- Human destiny: the Arhat and Boddhisatva ideals Study Guide
- Human personality in Mahayana tradition Study Guide
- Human personality in Theravada tradition Study Guide
- Meditation and wisdom Study Guide
- Nibbana and the end of suffering Study Guide
- Suffering and its causes Study Guide
- The concept of dependent arising Study Guide
- The concept of Dhamma Study Guide
- The Eightfold Path Study Guide
- The Four Noble Truths Study Guide
- The three marks of existence Study Guide
- The three poisons Study Guide
- The Threefold Way Study Guide
Buddhism: Beliefs and teachings
- Arhat ideals Study Guide
- Bodhisattva ideals Study Guide
- Human personality Study Guide
- Karma and rebirth Study Guide
- Mahayana: the Six Perfections Study Guide
- The Buddha Study Guide
- The Buddhist Threefold Way Study Guide
- The Dhamma Study Guide
- The Four Noble Truths: suffering Study Guide
- The Four Noble Truths: the Eightfold Path Study Guide
- The Four Noble Truths: the Three Poisons Study Guide
Buddhism: Practices
- Buddha rupa, artefacts and offerings Study Guide
- Celebrations: origins and significance of Wesak and Parinirvana Day Study Guide
- Ceremonies and rituals associated with death and mourning Study Guide
- Compassion and loving-kindness Study Guide
- Kamma and rebirth Study Guide
- Samatha meditation Study Guide
- The five moral precepts: do not take life or what is not given Study Guide
- The five moral precepts: senses, falsehoods or intoxicants Study Guide
- The nature and importance of diverse places of worship for Buddhists Study Guide
- The role and significance of Puja for Buddhists Study Guide
- The six perfections in the Mahayana tradition: generosity and morality Study Guide
- The six perfections in the Mahayana tradition: meditation and wisom Study Guide
- The six perfections in the Mahayana tradition: patience and energy Study Guide
- Vipassana meditation Study Guide
- Visualisation of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Study Guide
Buddhism: Practices
- Buddhist festivals in Britain Study Guide
- Buddhist temples in Britain and globally Study Guide
- Death and mourning in Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism Study Guide
- Devotional practices Study Guide
- Features and functions of Buddhist places of worship Study Guide
- Festivals and retreats Study Guide
- Forms of meditation: samatha and mettabhavana Study Guide
- Forms of meditation: vipassana Study Guide
- Puja and mudras Study Guide
- The role of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in meditation Study Guide
Christian beliefs
- Christ's resurrection and ascension Study Guide
- Christian eschatology: afterlife Study Guide
- Christian eschatology: judgement Study Guide
- Christian eschatology: resurrection Study Guide
- Interpreting Genesis Study Guide
- Jesus Christ as the incarnate Son of God Study Guide
- Nature and significance of the Trinity Study Guide
- Salvation and the role of Christ Study Guide
- The creation of the universe Study Guide
- The last days of Jesus' life Study Guide
- The problem of evil Study Guide
Christianity: Beliefs
- Beliefs about the afterlife: heaven and hell Study Guide
- Beliefs about the afterlife: judgement Study Guide
- Beliefs about the afterlife: resurrection Study Guide
- Creation in Genesis Study Guide
- Different Christian interpretations of creation Study Guide
- Jesus as the incarnation Study Guide
- Means of salvation Study Guide
- Sin Study Guide
- The crucifixion of Jesus Study Guide
- The nativity and Jesus as the son of God Study Guide
- The nature of God Study Guide
- The problem of evil and suffering Study Guide
- The resurrection and ascension Study Guide
- The role of Jesus in salvation Study Guide
- The Trinity Study Guide
Christianity: Beliefs and teachings
- Christianity and creation Study Guide
- Eschatalogical beliefs, heaven and hell Study Guide
- God's nature Study Guide
- Interpretations of Christian creation Study Guide
- Jesus Christ: crucifixion Study Guide
- Jesus Christ: incarnation Study Guide
- Jesus Christ: resurrection and ascension Study Guide
- Sin and salvation Study Guide
- The afterlife: judgement Study Guide
- The afterlife: resurrection Study Guide
- The Holy Trinity Study Guide
Christianity: Practices
- Celebrating Christmas and Easter Study Guide
- Christian beliefs about baptism Study Guide
- Christian beliefs about Holy Communion / the Eucharist Study Guide
- Christian response to persecution Study Guide
- Forms of worship Study Guide
- Mission, evangelism and Church growth Study Guide
- Pilgrimage to Iona Study Guide
- Pilgrimage to Lourdes Study Guide
- Street pastors Study Guide
- The Church in the local community Study Guide
- The sacraments Study Guide
- The work of CAFOD Study Guide
- The work of Tearfund Study Guide
- Working for reconciliation Study Guide
- Worship using the Bible Study Guide
Christianity: Practices
- Different forms of worship Study Guide
- Diverse beliefs regarding sacraments Study Guide
- Evangelism, mission and Church growth Study Guide
- How Christians celebrate Christmas and Easter Study Guide
- Persecution of Christians: past and present Study Guide
- Reconciliation Study Guide
- Role, meaning and celebration of baptism and the Eucharist Study Guide
- The census and Christianity in the UK Study Guide
- The Church and the local community Study Guide
- The importance of Walsingham and Taizé Study Guide
Identity: how does religion or belief look now and what might the future bring?
Islam: beliefs
- Authority of other sacred texts in Islam Study Guide
- Human responsibility and accountability Study Guide
- Life after death in Islam Study Guide
- Nature and role of angels Study Guide
- Predestination and human freedom Study Guide
- Revelation and authority of the Qur'an Study Guide
- Role and importace of Muhammad Study Guide
- Role and importance of Adam Study Guide
- Role and importance of Ibrahim Study Guide
- Tawhid Study Guide
- The five roots of Usul ad-Din Study Guide
- The imamate in Shi'a Islam Study Guide
- The Last Day: resurrection and judgement Study Guide
- The nature of Allah Study Guide
- The six articles of faith Study Guide
Islam: Beliefs and teachings
- Diversity in belief about angels and free will Study Guide
- Examples of prophets Study Guide
- Foundations of faith: Shi'a Islam Study Guide
- Foundations of faith: Sunni Islam Study Guide
- Heaven and hell in Islam Study Guide
- Human responsibility and freedom Study Guide
- Islamic attitudes to holy books Study Guide
- Muhammad as the seal of the Prophets Study Guide
- Significance of angels Study Guide
- Tawhid and the nature of Allah Study Guide
- The nature of prophethood Study Guide
Islam: Practices
- Additional duties of Shi'a Islam Study Guide
- Ashura Study Guide
- Conditions for declaring lesser jihad Study Guide
- Different understandings of jihad Study Guide
- How and why Muslims complete sawm Study Guide
- How and why Muslims perform Hajj Study Guide
- How and why Muslims perform salah Study Guide
- Id ul-Adha Study Guide
- Id ul-Fitr Study Guide
- Salah in the home and mosque Study Guide
- Shahadah - the declaration of faith Study Guide
- The Five Pillars Study Guide
- The Night of Power Study Guide
- The Ten Obligatory Acts Study Guide
- Zakah and its significance Study Guide
Islam: Practices
- Ashura in Britain and worldwide Study Guide
- Celebrating Id ul-Adha Study Guide
- Fasting during Ramadan Study Guide
- Hajj and Shi'a shrines Study Guide
- Jihad: greater and lesser Study Guide
- Salah in the mosque and home Study Guide
- Shahadah: the Muslim statement of faith Study Guide
- Ten Obligatory Acts in action Study Guide
- Ten Obligatory Acts: Shi'a distinctions Study Guide
- The Night of Power and Id ul-Fitr Study Guide
- Zakah and its uses Study Guide
Living the Christian life
- Baptism and the Eucharist Study Guide
- Christian celebrations: Advent and Christmas Study Guide
- Christian celebrations: Holy Week and Easter Study Guide
- Christian worship Study Guide
- Pilgrimage: Jerusalem and Iona Study Guide
- Pilgrimage: Walsingham and Taize Study Guide
- Sacraments in Christian life Study Guide
- The Church in the worldwide community Study Guide
- The future of the Christian Church Study Guide
- The local church and community Study Guide
Marriage and the family
- Christian beliefs about the family Study Guide
- Christian responses to gender equality Study Guide
- Christian responses to gender equality and prejudice Study Guide
- Christianity and family planning Study Guide
- Christianity and marriage Study Guide
- Christianity and support for the family Study Guide
- Divorce and remarriage in Christianity Study Guide
- Sexual relationships in Christianity Study Guide
Matters of life and death
- Christian beliefs about life after death Study Guide
- Christian responses to abortion Study Guide
- Christian responses to euthanasia Study Guide
- Christian responses to issues in the natural world Study Guide
- Christian responses to non-religious accounts Study Guide
- Christianity and the issue of abortion Study Guide
- Christianity and the issue of euthanasia Study Guide
- Christianity and the origins and value of the universe Study Guide
- The sanctity of life in Christianity Study Guide