GCSE RE: Edexcel Unit 3.4
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Attitudes to Men and Women
How they have changed:
- Can keep their own property
- Vote in elections
- become councillers and MP's
- recieve the same pay
- illegal to discriminate because of gender (1975 - Sex discrimination Act)
- expected to share roles in the home
Why attitudes have changed:
- Suffragette movement
- 1st and 2nd world war proved that women could do the same jobs
- equal rights in different countries - could not claim it was not needed
- Industrial developement needed more women workers
- UN declaration of human rights - equal rights had to be accepted
- labour governments were in favour
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Christian views on equal rights for women in relig
Catholic attitude:
- Teaches equal rights in society
- God created man and women at the same time in his image
- teachings of the catechism
- Only men can be priests as jesus' apostles were all men
- the priest represents jesus and as he was a man the priest must also be
Traditional Protestant attitudes:
- Different roles so are not equal
- in the bible, st.paul teaches that women should not speak in church
- St. paul uses genisis to show that man was created before women
- Jesus only chose men as his apostles
- Tradition of the church that only men are leaders
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Christian views on equal rights for Women
Modern Prostestant attitudes:
- Men and women have equal rights in society and religion
- Genisis - created man and women at the same time in his image
- in letters, paul teaches that men and women are equal in christ
- Evidence that jesus treated women as equals - women stayed with him at the cross - appeared to a women first
- Evidence that women were priests in the early church.
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Problems of Discrimination
Problems:
- Racially or Religiously prejudiced employers will not give jobs to certain groups of people
- Prejudiced landlords may refuse accomodation
- Prejudiced teachers may discriminate agianst pupils in their teaching so the pupils may not recieve the best possible mark they could have
- Prejudiced officer may search people for no reason based on who they are
Effects:
- If they feel that they are treated unfairly they will begin to work against society
- May turn to crime as they cannot find work
- May turn to extreme religious groups as they have no chance of success
- Leads to groups which stir up hatred and violence (BNP)
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Government actions to promote Community Cohesion
How:
- Race Relations act - unlawful to discriminate because of race
- Crime and Disorder act - severe punishments for racially or religious violence
- Racial and Religious Hatred act - offence to use threatening words or behaviour about religious beliefs
- Equallity and human rights commission - equallity and human rights for all
- Community cohesion is now a part of the school curriculum
Why it is imortant:
- Different ideas may lead to violence
- London bombers were british citizans who lost faith in britain
- Violence becomes a way of life without it
- Impossible to co-operate
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Government actions to promote community Cohesion
It is about:
- Avoiding bad effects of discrimination
- Ecouraging us all to work together
- enusing respect for one another
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Why Catholics should promote community cohesion
Why:
- Parable of the good samaritan - love all races as our neighbours
- St.Peter had a vision telling him not discriminate as God has no favourites
- St.Paul taught that all races are equal in Christ
- Catholic Church has members from every race
- Catholic Cardinals and bishops of every race
- Teachings of the Catechism and encyclicals from Pope John Paul II.
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The Catholic church and asylum seekers and migrant
How the Catholic chuch helps:
- Office for refugee policy - prepares the bishops
- Leaflets available in different languages
- English language classes
- equipment to help set up a home
- legal advice clinics
- masses in other languages to help them keep their faith
Why the Catholic church helps:
- God of justice - we must behave justly
- No one should be oppressed
- Parable of the good samaritan
- Parable of the sheep and the goats
- Jesus was a refugee and asylum seeker when he fled herod.
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Benefits of a multi-faith society
- Learn about other religions - what they have in common
- Other religions may practice more seiously making you think about your own religion
- Makes you think more seriously about your beliefs
- Likely to be more understanding and respectful
- Religious freedom
- Think more about religion as they come across new ideas
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Christian attitudes to different religions
Catholic attitude:
- Christianity is the one true faith
- Can come to god through different religions
- Taught in the catechism
- Jesus is the son of God - Shows the nature of God
- Bibles teaches the full truth - to recieve salvation
Evangelical Christian attitude:
- Christianity is the only way
- should try to convert everyone
- Jesus said that he is the only way to God
- Converting their neighbour is loving - want them to recieve slavation
- Jesus said to convert all nations
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Christian attidues to different religions
Liberal Protesant attitudes:
- All religions are just different ways of finding God
- God can be discovered in different ways
- They see other religions as living good holy lives
- Jesus said that there are many rooms in his fathers house
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Issues for multi faith societies
Conversion:
- many see it as a duty to convert people
- only way to get into heaven is to be converted
- Holy books teach that they should convert non-believers
Issues:
- conversion is discriminating agaisnt those who do not believe the same as you do
- It is impossible to say that all religions are wrong unless you have studied all of them
- trying to convert others can lead to violence
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Issues for a multi faith society
Bringing up children:
- Children learning about other faiths may cause problems for religious believers
- Most religions teach that you should raise your children in the faith
- Parents worry what will happen to them after death if they convert
- Social and peer pressures to remain in the faith
- Children educated at state school are tempted away from religion
Interfaith Marriages:
- Must be members of the same religion to have a religious wedding ceremony
- Which religion will the children be brought up in
- What will happen to the couple after death
- Parents and relatives may feel betrayed
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How religions work for community cohesion
- Working with other religions to find out what they have in common - living without trying to convert
- Potestant/liberal christians and reform jewish religions have special marriage ceremonies
- Website for help and advice
- Potestant/liberal christians and reform jewish religions encourage parents to bring up children in both faiths
- Religious schools have agreed to teach about the other main religions
- Working in groups such as the interfaith network for the uk
- indivdual places of worship which work together
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