RE Keywords - Paper 1 - Religion and life

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Abortion	The removal of a foetus before it can survive
Adultery	A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
Agnosticism	Not being sure whether God exists
Assisted Suicide	Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide.
Atheism	Believing that God does not exist.
Civil Partnership	A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as husband and wife.
Cohabitation	Living together without being married.
Community Cohesion	A common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society.
Contraception	Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring.
Conversion	When your life is changed by giving yourself to God.
Discrimination	treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity, gender, colour or class.
Ethnic Minority	A member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group.
Euthanasia	The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease.
Faithfulness	staying with your marriage partner and having sex with only them.
Free Will	The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices.
Homosexuality	Sexual attraction to the same sex.
Immortality of the Soul	The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body.
Interfaith marriage	Marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions.
Miracle	Something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it.
Moral Evil	Actions done by humans which cause suffering.
Multi-Ethnic Society	Many different races and cultures living together in one society.
Multi-faith society	Many different religions living together in one society.
Natural Evil	Things which cause suffering but has nothing to do with humans.
Near-death experience	When someone about to die has an out of body experience.
Non-voluntary Euthanasia	Ending someones life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you do have good reason for thinking they would want you to do so.
Nuclear Family	Mother, Father and children living as a unit.
Numinous	The feeling of the presence of something greater than you.
Omni-benevolent	The belief that God is all good.
Omnipotent	The belief that God is all powerful.
Omniscient	The belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen.
Paranormal	Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes, for example, ghosts, mediums.
Prayer	An attempt to contact God, usually through words.
Prejudice	Believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them.
Pre-marital sex	Sex before marriage.
Procreation	Making new life.
Promiscuity	Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.
Quality of life	The idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living.
Racial Harmony	Different ethnic groups living together peacefully.
Racism	The idea that some ethnic groups are superior to others.
Re-constituted Family	Where two sets of children (set brothers and step sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.
Reincarnation	The belief that, after death, the souls are reborn in a new body.
Religious Experience	An experience that makes the person having the experience feel the presence of God.
Religious freedom	The right to practise your religion and change your religion.
Religious pluralism	Accepting all religions as having an equal right to co-exist.
Re-marriage	Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage.
Resurrection	The belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world.
Sanctity of life	The belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised.
Sanctity of life	The belief that life is holy and only god has the right to take it.
Sexism	Discriminating against people because of their gender.
Voluntary euthanasia	Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death.

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