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Year 11 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.
Crime and punishment
- Islam and the aims of punishment Study Guide
- Islam and the treatment of criminals Study Guide
- Muslim attitudes towards crime Study Guide
- Muslim attitudes towards justice Study Guide
- Muslim attitudes towards punishment Study Guide
- Muslim attitudes towards the death penalty Study Guide
- Muslim teachings about forgiveness: Study Guide
- Muslim teachings about good, evil and suffering Study Guide
- The Muslim Chaplains Association and Mosaic Study Guide
Freedom: How far should governments go to protect freedom of religion or belief?
- Competing and balancing rights Study Guide
- Considering contested issues around freedom of religion or belief Study Guide
- Freedom of religion or belief: what did it look like in the past? Study Guide
- Freedom of religion or belief: what does it look like now? Study Guide
- Freedom: what is it and how is it protected? Study Guide
Issues of Good and Evil
- Christian attitudes to forgiveness Study Guide
- Christian teachings about good and evil Study Guide
- Christianity and crime Study Guide
- Christianity and suffering Study Guide
- Christianity and the aims of punishment Study Guide
- Christianity and the death penalty Study Guide
- Christianity and types of punishment Study Guide
- Islam and the death penalty Study Guide
- Muslim attitudes to forgiveness Study Guide
Issues of Human Rights
- Buddhism, human rights and social justice Study Guide
- Buddhist attitudes to issues of wealth and poverty Study Guide
- Case study: Christian Aid Study Guide
- Case study: personal conviction vs the law Study Guide
- Censorship and freedom of religious expression Study Guide
- Christian attitudes to racial prejudice Study Guide
- Christian attitudes to wealth Study Guide
- Christianity, human rights and social justice Study Guide
- Christianity, prejudice and discrimination Study Guide
Issues of life and death
- Christian and humanist funerals Study Guide
- Christian and non-religious beliefs about creation Study Guide
- Christian attitudes to human life Study Guide
- Christian beliefs about death and the afterlife Study Guide
- Contrasting views on abortion Study Guide
- Contrasting views on euthanasia Study Guide
- Dominion, stewardship and environmental responsibility Study Guide
- Non-religious attitudes to human life Study Guide
- Non-religious beliefs about death and the afterlife Study Guide
Issues of Relationships
- Christian attitudes to adultery and cohabitation Study Guide
- Christian views on sex and contraception Study Guide
- Christianity and relationships in the 21st century Study Guide
- Christianity and same sex relationships Study Guide
- Divergent Christian views on divorce and marriage Study Guide
- Nature and purpose of marriage Study Guide
- Roles of men and women in Christian worship Study Guide
- Roles of men and women within relationships Study Guide
Living the Muslim life
- Contrasting worship in Islam and Christianity Study Guide
- Hajj as one of the Five Pillars Study Guide
- Id-ul-Adha and Id-ul-Fitr Study Guide
- Id-ul-Ghadeer and Ashura Study Guide
- Origins and meaning of 'jihad' Study Guide
- Salah as one of the Five Pillars Study Guide
- Sawm as one of the Five Pillars Study Guide
- Shahadah as one of the Five Pillars Study Guide
- Ten Obligatory Acts of Shi'a Islam Study Guide
- Zakah as one of the Five Pillars Study Guide
Memory: what happens to us and our memories when we die?
Muslim beliefs
Peace and conflict
- Divergent Muslim attitudes to pacifism Study Guide
- Holy War and lesser Jihad Study Guide
- Islam and issues surrounding conflict Study Guide
- Islam and Just War theory Study Guide
- Muslim attitudes to conflict Study Guide
- Muslim attitudes towards peace Study Guide
- Muslim responses to weapons of mass destruction Study Guide
- The role of Muslims in peacemaking Study Guide
Personhood: what might be the people of the future?
Relationships and families
- Contemporary family issues: Polygamy Study Guide
- Contraception and family planning Study Guide
- Different religious views about contraception Study Guide
- Different religious views about same sex relationships Study Guide
- Different religious views about sex before marriage Study Guide
- Divorce, remarriage and related ethical arguments Study Guide
- Gender prejudice and discrimination Study Guide
- Human sexuality including heterosexual and same sex relationships Study Guide
- Religious attitudes to marriage Study Guide
- Religious views about divorce and remarriage Study Guide
- Sexual relationships before and outside of marriage Study Guide
- The nature and purpose of marriage Study Guide
- The nature of families including the role of parents and children Study Guide
- The purpose of families Study Guide
- The roles of men and women Study Guide
Religion and life
- Beliefs about death and the afterlife Study Guide
- Different religious views about abortion Study Guide
- Different religious views about animal experimentation Study Guide
- Different religious views about euthanasia Study Guide
- Ethical arguments related to abortion Study Guide
- Euthanasia Study Guide
- Impact of beliefs about death and the afterlife on the value of human life Study Guide
- Quality of life Study Guide
- Religious teachings about the origin of the universe Study Guide
- Religious teachings about the origins of life Study Guide
- Sanctity of life Study Guide
- The relationship between religious and scientific views on the origin of life Study Guide
- The use and abuse of the environment Study Guide
- The use of animals for food Study Guide
- The value of the world and stewardship Study Guide
Religion or belief in the workplace: how do we work together?
Religion, crime and punishment
- Different religious views about corporal punishment Study Guide
- Different religious views about forgiveness Study Guide
- Different religious views about the death penalty Study Guide
- Ethical arguments relating to the death penalty Study Guide
- Good and evil intentions Study Guide
- Opposition to an unjust law Study Guide
- Reasons for crime: greed and hate Study Guide
- Reasons for crime: mental illness and addiction Study Guide
- Reasons for crime: poverty and upbringing Study Guide
- The aims of punishment Study Guide
- The concept of forgiveness Study Guide
- The treatment of criminals: corporal punishment Study Guide
- The treatment of criminals: prison and community service Study Guide
- Views about different types of crime Study Guide
- Views about people who commit crime Study Guide
Religion, human rights and social justice
- Attitudes to wealth and its uses Study Guide
- Charity and issues with giving money to people living in poverty Study Guide
- Different religious views about freedom of religious expression Study Guide
- Different religious views about the status of women in religion Study Guide
- Different religious views about the uses of wealth Study Guide
- Ethical arguments related to racial discrimination Study Guide
- Exploitation of people living in poverty including people-trafficking Study Guide
- Exploitation of people living in poverty; fair pay and interest on loans Study Guide
- Freedom of religious expression Study Guide
- Human rights and responsibilities Study Guide
- Prejudice and discrimination in religion and belief Study Guide
- Racial prejudice and discrimination Study Guide
- Social justice Study Guide
- Tackling poverty and its causes Study Guide
- The responsibility of those in poverty to overcome difficulties Study Guide
Religion, peace and conflict
- Contrasting religious views about violence Study Guide
- Different religious views about pacifism Study Guide
- Different religious views about weapons of mass destruction Study Guide
- Nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence Study Guide
- Pacifism Study Guide
- Reasons for war Study Guide
- Religion and peace-making Study Guide
- Religion as a cause of war and Holy War Study Guide
- Religious responses to victims of war Study Guide
- Terrorism Study Guide
- The Just War theory Study Guide
- The meaning and significance of peace, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation Study Guide
- The work of Christian Aid for victims of war Study Guide
- Violence, including violent protest Study Guide
- Weapons of mass destruction Study Guide