Edexcel Gcse Unit 3 Religious Studies Keywords

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Agnosticism

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Not being sure if God exists

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Atheism

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Believing that God doesn't exist

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Conversion

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When your life is changed by giving yourself to God

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Free will

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The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices

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Miracle

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something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it

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Moral evil

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actions done by humans that cause suffering

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Natural evil

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things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans

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Numinous

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the feeling of the prescence of something greater than you

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Omni-benevolent

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the belief that God is all-good

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Omnipotent

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the belief that God is all-powerful

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Omniscient

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the belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen

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Prayer

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an attempt to contact God, usually through words

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Abortion

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the removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive

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Assisted suicide

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providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide

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Euthanasia

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The painless killing of something dying from a painful disease

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Immortality of the soul

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The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body

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near-death experience

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when someone about to die has an out of body experience

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non-voluntary euthanasia

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ending someone's life painless when they are unable to ask, but you have good reason for thinking they would want you to do so

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paranormal

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unexplained things that are thought to have spiritual causes e.g. ghosts, mediums

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quality of life

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the idea that life must have some benefits to be worth living

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reincarnation

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the belief that, after death, souls are reborn into a new body

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resurrection

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the belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised

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sanctity of life

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the belief that life is holy and belongs to God

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voluntary euthanasia

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ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death

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adultery

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a sexual act between a married person and someone who is not their marriage partner

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civil partnership

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a legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife

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cohabitation

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living together without being married

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contraception

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intentionally preventing pregnancy from occuring

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faithfulness

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staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them

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homosexuality

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sexual attraction to the same sex

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nuclear family

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mother, father and children living together as a unit

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pre-marital sex

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sex before marriage

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procreation

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making a new life

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promiscuity

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having sex with a number of partners without commitment

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re-constituted family

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when two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other

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re-marriage

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marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage

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community cohesion

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a common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society

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discrimination

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treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gender/colour/sexuality/age/class

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ethnic minority

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a member of an ethnic group (race) that is much smaller than the majority group

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interfaith marriages

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marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions

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multi-ethnic society

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many different races and cultures living together in one society

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multi-faith society

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many different religions living together in one society

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prejudice

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believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them

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racial harmony

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different races/colours living together happily

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racism

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believing that some races are superior to others

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religious freedom

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hte right to practise your religion and change your religion

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religious pluralism

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accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist

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sexism

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discriminating against people because of their gender (being male or female)