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Religion and Society Key Terms
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Pressure group: a group
formed to influence government
policy on a particular issue.
- Democratic processes: the ways in
which all citizens can take part on
government (usually through elections).
- Moral decision: when deciding what
is the right or wrong thing to do.
- Decalogue: the 10 Commandments
- Electoral processes: the ways
in which voting is organised.
- Bible: the holy book of Christians on which
the teachings of their religion is based.
- Human Rights: the rights and freedoms
to which everyone is entitled.
- Social change: the way in which
society has changed and is changing.
- Political party: a group which tries to be
elected into power on its policies.
- Golden Rule: the teaching of Jesus that you should
treat others as you would like them to treat you.
- Conscience: an inner feeling of
rightness or wrongness of an action.
- Situation ethics: the idea that
Christians should base moral decisions
on what is the most loving thing to do.
- Church: the community of Christians which gives
modern advice on how to live a good Christian life.
- church: a Christian place of worship.
- Pressure group: a group
formed to influence government
policy on a particular issue.
- Environmental and Medical Issues
- Global warming: the increase in the
temperature of the Earth's atmosphere (thought
to be caused by the greenhouse effect).
- Natural resources:
naturally occurring
materials, such as
timber, which can be
used by humans.
- Conservation:
careful use of
resources to protect
the environment for
future generations.
- Creation: the act
of creating the
universe, or the
universe which
has been created.
- Environment: the
surroundings in which
plants and animals live
and on which their lives
depend on.
- Stewardship: looking
after the environment and
its animals so it can be
passed on to the next
generation.
- Shari'ah:
Islamic law.
- Animal Rights: Fundamental
necessities that an animal needs to live.
- Khalifahs: Islamic
law to stewardship -
we should protect
Allah's environment.
- Artificial insemination: injecting semen
into the uterus by artificial means.
- Embryo: a fertilised egg in the
first 8 weeks after conception.
- Infertility: not being able to have children.
- In-vitro fertilisation (IVF): the method of
fertilising a human egg in a test tube.
- Surrogacy: where a women bears a child for another
woman or where an egg is donated and fertilised by
the man IVF + then implanted into the uterus.
- Organ donation:
giving organs to be
used in transplant
surgery.
- Global warming: the increase in the
temperature of the Earth's atmosphere (thought
to be caused by the greenhouse effect).
- Peace and Conflict
- Conflict resolution: bringing a fight
or struggle to a peaceful conclusion.
- The UN: an international body set up to
promote world peace and co-operation.
- World peace: the ending of war throughout
the whole world (the basic aim of the UN).
- Aggression: attacking without being provoked.
- Exploitation: taking advantage of a weaker group.
- Just war: a war that is fought for
the right reasons and in a right way.
- Pacifism: the belief that all
disputes should be settled
by peaceful means.
- Weapons of mass destruction: armaments
which can destroy large areas and
numbers of people (usually nuclear).
- Bullying: intimidating/frightening
people weaker than yourself.
- Respect: treating a person or
their feelings with consideration.
- Forgiveness: when you stop blaming
someone and/or pardoning them for
what they have done wrong.
- Reconciliation: bringing together people
who were opposed to each other.
- Conflict resolution: bringing a fight
or struggle to a peaceful conclusion.
- Crime and Punishment
- Crime: an act against the law.
- Judgement: the act of judging
people and their actions.
- Justice: due
allocation of reward
and punishment/the
maintenance of what
is right.
- Law: rules made by Parliament
and enforceable by the courts.
- Capital punishment: the death
penalty for a crime or offence.
- Deterrence: the idea tha punishment
should be of such a nature that it will
deter people from committing crimes.
- Rehabilitation: restore
to normal life.
- Reform: the idea that punishments
should try to change criminals so they
will not commit crimes again.
- Retribution: the idea that
punishments should make criminals
pay for what they have done wrong.
- Sin: an act against
the will of God.
- Addiction: a recurring compulsion to engage
in an activity regardless of its bad effects.
- Responsibility:
being responsible
for one's actions.
- Scared authority: authority
based on religious teachings
eg. the 10 Commandments.
- Secular authority:
non-religious law.
- Hadith: teachings based
on Muhammad's actions.
- Civil law: disputes between
individuals (eg, divorce).
- Criminal law: a
crime breaking the
law of the land.
- Protection: criminals
being removed from
society for the
safeguarding of society
and themselves.
- Shari'ah: Islamic law based on
the Qur'an and the Sunnah.
- Crime: an act against the law.
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