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| Pregunta | Respuesta |
| Numinous | The feeling of the presence of something greater than you e.g. in the church or looking up at the stars |
| Conversion | When your life is changed by giving yourself to God |
| Miracle | Something which seems to break the laws of science and makes you think that only God could havd done it. |
| Prayer | An attempt to contact God usually through words |
| Design | When things are connected and seem to have a purpose e.g. the eye is made for seeing |
| Causation | The idea that everything has a cause (is started off by something) |
| Agnosticism | Not being sure if God exists |
| Atheism | Believing that god does not exist |
| Moral evil | Actions done by humans that cause suffering |
| Natural evil | Things that cause suffering that have nothing to do with humans |
| Omnipotent | The belief God is all-powerful |
| Omnibenevolent | The belief God is all-good |
| Omniscient | The belief that God knows everything that has happened and is going to happen |
| Free will | The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices |
| Matters of Life and Death | Year 10 / Unit 1 |
| Resurrection | The belief that, after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised |
| Immortality of the soul | The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body |
| Paranormal | Unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes e.g. ghosts, mediums |
| Abortion | The removal of the foetus from the womb before it can survive |
| Sanctity of life | The belief that life is holy and belongs to God (believed by both Christians and Muslims) |
| Euthanasia | An easy and gentle death/ the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease |
| Assisted suicide | Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide |
| Voluntary euthanasia | The situation where someone is dying in pain and asks for their life to be ended painlessly |
| 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 something e.g. switching off a life support machine |
| Near-death experience | When someone about to die has an out of body experience |
| Quality of life | The idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living |
| Reincarnation | The belief that, after death, souls are reborn in a new body |
| Marriage and Family Life | Unit 1 |
| Cohabitation | Living together without being married |
| Marriage | The condition of a man and woman legally united for the purpose of living together and, usually, having children |
| Faithfulness | Staying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them |
| Pre-marital sex | Sex before marriage |
| Promiscuity | Having sex with a number of partners without commitment |
| Adultery | An act of sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner |
| Re-marriage | Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage |
| Nuclear family | Mother, father and children living as a unit |
| Extended family | Children, parents and grandparents/uncles/aunts living as a unit or close together |
| Reconstituted family | Where two sets of children (step- brothers and sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other |
| Civil partnership | A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife |
| Contraception | Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring |
| Homosexuality | Sexual attraction to the same sex |
| Procreation | Making a new life |
| Community Cohesion | Unit 1 |
| Equality | The state of everyone having equal rights regardless of gender/race/class |
| Ethnic minority | A member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group |
| Sexism | Discriminating against people because of their gender (being male or female) |
| Multi - ethnic society | Many different races and cultures living together in one society |
| Prejudice | Believing that someone is inferior or superior without knowing them |
| Discrimination | Putting prejudice into practice and treating people less favourably because of their race/ gender/ class |
| Racism | The belief that some races are superior to others |
| Racial harmony | Different races/ colours living together happily |
| Multi-faith society | Many different religions living together in one society |
| Religious freedom | The right to practise your religion and change your religion |
| Religious pluralism | Accepting that all religions have a right to exist together |
| Community cohesion | A common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society |
| Interfaith marriages | Marriages where the partners are from different religions |
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