Hodder Education
OCR GCSE (9-1) Religious Studies
OCR GCSE (9-1) Religious Studies
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Exam Board: OCR
Level: GCSE
Subject: RS
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2018

Motivate every student to deepen their understanding and fulfil their potential by following a stimulating, well-paced course through the strengthened content requirements; produced by subject specialists and OCR's Publishing Partner.
- Equips students with the detailed knowledge they need to succeed with clear, lively explanations that make key concepts accessible to all ability levels.
- Provides opportunities for students to learn, review and develop their knowledge and skills through a variety of engaging activities, discussion points and extension tasks to stretch high achievers.
- Ensures that your lessons are both innovative and inclusive, supplying a bank of tasks that draw on best practice teaching methods.
- Encourages students to take an active interest in every topic, using relevant news articles, real-life viewpoints and quotations from sacred texts to bring religious principles and practices to life.
- Boosts students' confidence approaching assessment via practice questions and guidance on tackling different question types.
- Enables you to teach the systematic study content confidently with comprehensive coverage of Christianity and Islam.
OCR GCSE RS Spec
Content covered:
Christianity
- Beliefs and teachings
- Practices
Islam
- Beliefs and teachings
- Practices
Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Christian perspective
- Relationships and families
- The existence of God
- Religion, peace and conflict
- Dialogue between religious and non-religious beliefs and attitudes

- Covers the short course content.

Language
English
ISBN
9781471867583
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Christianity
Introduction
1 Beliefs and teachings
The nature of God
The concept of a God as a Trinity of persons
Biblical accounts of Creation
The problem of evil and suffering and a loving and righteous God
Jesus Christ
The incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection and ascension
The concept of salvation
Eschatological beliefs and teachings
2 Practices
Worship
Sacraments
Prayer
The role and importance of pilgrimage
Celebrations
The role of the Church in the local community and living practices
Mission
The role of the Church in the wider world
Let’s revise
Islam
Introduction
3 Beliefs and teachings
Core beliefs
Nature of Allah
Prophethood (Risalah)
Books (Kutub)
Angels (Malaikah)
Eschatological beliefs
Life after death (Akhirah)
4 Practices
The importance of practices
Public acts of worship
Private acts of worship
Zakah
Sawm
Hajj
Festivals and special days
Jihad
Let’s revise
Religion, philosophy and ethics in the modern world from a Christian perspective
5 Relationships and families
Relationships
Men and women
Christian understandings of equality
Let’s revise
6 The existence of God
The question of God
The nature of reality
Experiencing God
Let’s revise
7 Religion, peace and conflict
Violence and conflict
Peace and peacemaking
Forgiveness and reconciliation
Let’s revise
8 Dialogue within and between religious and non-religious beliefs and attitudes
Challenges for religion
Dialogue within and between religious groups
Dialogue within and between religious and non-religious groups
Let’s revise
Glossary
Index

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