Religious Studies/Education Edexcel Keywords

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Omniscient
All-knowing
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Omni-benevolant
All good and all loving
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Omnipotent
All-powerful
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Numinous
The feeling or presence of something greater than your self
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Miracle
when something appears to happen that science cannot explain
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Conversion
When your life changes by devoting yourself to God
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Agnostic
Not Sure if God exists
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Atheist
Believes that no God or Gods exist
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Free Will
The belief that Human Beings are free to make their own choices
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Moral Evil
Actions by human beings that causes suffering
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Natural Evil
Things that causes suffering that has nothing to do with Human Beings, for example, Natural Disasters
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Immortality of the soul
Belief that the soul lives on after the death of the body
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Near death experience
when somebody is about to die has an out of body experience
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Abortion
The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive
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Sanctity of life
The belief that all life is holy and a gift from God
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Euthanasia
The intentional painless killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit
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Voluntary Euthanasia
When the person who is killed has requested to be killed
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Non-voluntaty Euthanasia
When the person who is killed made no request and gave no consent
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Involuntary Euthanasia
When the person who is killed made an expressed wish to the contrary
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Multi-faith Soceity
When many different religious groups live together
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Civil Partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same rights as a husband and wife
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Cohabitation
living together
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Resurection
the idea that the body stays in the grave until the end of time when Jesus will ressurrect everyone
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Nuclear Family
mother, father and children living together as one unit
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Re-Constituted family
where two sets of children (step-brothers and step-sister) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other
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Homosexual
sexual attraction to the same sex
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Re-Marriage
marrying again after being divorced
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Pre-marital sex
Sex before marriae
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Aultery
a sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
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Faithfulness
Staying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them
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Procreation
Making a new life
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Promiscuity
having sex with a number of partners without commitment
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Annulment
A declaration that the marriage was never a true marriage and so partners are free to marry
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Bigamy
Someone marrying another person whilst still being lawfully married
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Haddith
Sayings of the prophet Muhammad
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Shari'ai
The Holy law of Islam
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Sexism
discriminating against people because of their gender
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Discrimination
Treating people less favorably because of their ethnicity/gender/colour/class
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Ethnic Minority
A member of an ethnic group (race) which is smaller than the majority group
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Multi-ethnic soceity
many different races and cultures living together in one soceity
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Prejudice
Believing that some people are inferior without even knowing them
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Racial Harmony
different ethnic groups living together peacefully
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Hajj
Muslim pilgrimage to Makah
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Religious Freedom
The right to practice your religion and change your religion
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Interfaith marriage
Marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions
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Religious Pluralism
accepting all religions having equal right to co-exist
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Causation
The idea that everything has been caused by something else
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Prayer
an attempt to contact God, usually through words
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Divorce
Legally sepeares a marriage so that the partners are free to marry someone else
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Omni-benevolant

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All good and all loving

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Omnipotent

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Numinous

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Miracle

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