Unit 2 RE Key words

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Cummunity Cohesion
a common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society
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Discrimination
treating people less favourable because of their ethnicity/gender/colour/sexuality/age/class
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Ethnic minority
a member of an ethnic group which is much smaller than the majority group
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Interfaith marriages
marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions
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Multi-ethnic society
many different races and culture living together in one society
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Multi-faith society
many different religions living together in one society
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Prejudice
believe some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them
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Racial harmony
different race/colour living together happily
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Racism
the belief that some races are superior to others
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Religious freeedom
the right to practise your religion and change it
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Religious pluralism
accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist
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Sexism
discrimination against people because of the gender
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Adultery
a sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
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Civil partnership
a legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife
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Cohabilitation
living together without being married
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Contraception
intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring
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Faithfulness
staying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them
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Homosexuality
sexual attraction to the same sex
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Nuclear Family
mother, father and children living as a unit
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Pre-marital sex
sex before marriage
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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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Reconstituted family
where two separate set of children (step-brothers and step-sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other
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Remarriage
marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage
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Abortion
the removal of a fetus from the womb before it can survive
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Assisted suicide
providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide
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Euthanasia
the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease
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Immortality of the soul
the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body
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Near-death experience
when someone about to die has an out of body experience
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Non-voluntary euthanasia
ending someone's life painlessly 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
unexplained thing which are thought to have spiritual causes e.g. ghosts
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Quality of life
the idea that life must have benefots for it to be worth living
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Reincarnation
the belief that, after death, souls are reborn into a new body
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Resurrection
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
the belief that like is holy and belongs to God
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Voluntary euthanasia
ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death
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Agnosticism
not being sure whether God exists
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Atheism
believing that God does not exist
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Conversion
when your life is changed by giving yourself to God
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Free will
the idea that human beings are free to make their own choices
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Miracle
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
actions done by humans which cause suffering
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Numinous
the feeling of the presence of something greater than you
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Omni-benevolent
the belief God is all-good
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Omnipotent
the believe that God is all-powerful
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Omniscient
the belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen
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Prayer
an attempt to contact God, usually through words
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Card 2

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

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Discrimination

Card 3

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a member of an ethnic group which is much smaller than the majority group

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Card 4

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marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions

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Card 5

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many different races and culture living together in one society

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