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RE Keywords Year 10
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- 1NuminousThe feeling of the presence of something greater than you e.g. in the church or looking up at the stars
- 2ConversionWhen your life is changed by giving yourself to God
- 3MiracleSomething which seems to break the laws of science and makes you think that only God could havd done it.
- 4PrayerAn attempt to contact God usually through words
- 5DesignWhen things are connected and seem to have a purpose e.g. the eye is made for seeing
- 6CausationThe idea that everything has a cause (is started off by something)
- 7AgnosticismNot being sure if God exists
- 8AtheismBelieving that god does not exist
- 9Moral evilActions done by humans that cause suffering
- 10Natural evilThings that cause suffering that have nothing to do with humans
- 11OmnipotentThe belief God is all-powerful
- 12OmnibenevolentThe belief God is all-good
- 13OmniscientThe belief that God knows everything that has happened and is going to happen
- 14Free willThe idea that human beings are free to make their own choices
- 15Matters of Life and DeathYear 10 / Unit 1
- 16ResurrectionThe belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised
- 17Immortality of the soulThe idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body
- 18ParanormalUnexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes e.g. ghosts, mediums
- 19AbortionThe removal of the foetus from the womb before it can survive
- 20Sanctity of lifeThe belief that life is holy and belongs to God
(believed by both Christians and Muslims) - 21EuthanasiaAn easy and gentle death/ the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease
- 22Assisted suicideProviding a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide
- 23Voluntary euthanasiaThe situation where someone is dying in pain and asks for their life to be ended painlessly
- 24Non-voluntary euthanasiaEnding someone’s life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have good reason for thinking they would want you to do something e.g. switching off a life support machine
- 25Near-death experienceWhen someone about to die has an out of body experience
- 26Quality of lifeThe idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living
- 27ReincarnationThe belief that, after death, souls are reborn in a new body
- 28Marriage and Family LifeUnit 1
- 29CohabitationLiving together without being married
- 30MarriageThe condition of a man and woman legally united for the purpose of living together and, usually, having children
- 31FaithfulnessStaying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them
- 32Pre-marital sexSex before marriage
- 33PromiscuityHaving sex with a number of partners without commitment
- 34AdulteryAn act of sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
- 35Re-marriageMarrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage
- 36Nuclear familyMother, father and children living as a unit
- 37Extended familyChildren, parents and grandparents/uncles/aunts living as a unit or close together
- 38Reconstituted familyWhere two sets of children (step- brothers and sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other
- 39Civil partnershipA legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife
- 40ContraceptionIntentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring
- 41HomosexualitySexual attraction to the same sex
- 42ProcreationMaking a new life
- 43Community CohesionUnit 1
- 44EqualityThe state of everyone having equal rights regardless of gender/race/class
- 45Ethnic minorityA member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group
- 46SexismDiscriminating against people because of their gender (being male or female)
- 47Multi - ethnic societyMany different races and cultures living together in one society
- 48PrejudiceBelieving that someone is inferior or superior without knowing them
- 49DiscriminationPutting prejudice into practice and treating people less favourably because of their race/ gender/ class
- 50RacismThe belief that some races are superior to others
- 51Racial harmonyDifferent races/ colours living together happily
- 52Multi-faith societyMany different religions living together in one society
- 53Religious freedomThe right to practise your religion and change your religion
- 54Religious pluralismAccepting that all religions have a right to exist together
- 55Community cohesionA common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society
- 56Interfaith marriagesMarriages where the partners are from different religions
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- RE keywords for Unit 1 Some definitions may be outdated but these are the definitions straight from the spec.
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