Ch.1 - Framing Religious Worldviews

Question 1

What is a worldview

Answer 1

Is a way of looking at and explaining the world and life experiences (not physical)
It can be religious or non religious

Question 2

Name 5 big questions of life

Answer 2

Why are we here
What is the purpose of life
Where did we come from
How should i behave
Is there and afterlife
(PAWCB)

Question 3

Religious worldview

Answer 3

Follows the influences of religious thinking, they are usually informed by the sacred texts and teachings of the founder of a particular religion

Question 4

Faith

Answer 4

The unquestioning belief in something that does not need to be proven

Question 5

Sacred text

Answer 5

Texts that religious traditions consider to be foundational to the practice of their beliefs
(Bible, Qur’an)

Question 6

Spiritual

Answer 6

Spiritual describes something bigger that the self

Question 7

Non-religious worldwiew

Answer 7

Answers the big questions in life from a non religious point of view

Question 8

Secularism

Answer 8

The view that religion and public life should be separate

Question 9

Humanism

Answer 9

The view that humans are the only source of knowledge

Question 10

Monotheism

Answer 10

The belief in one god
(Christianity,Islam)

Question 11

Polytheism

Answer 11

The belief in many gods
(Hinduism)

Question 12

Atheism

Answer 12

the view that god does not exist and is not real

Question 13

Agnosticism

Answer 13

When People don’t know whether god exists or not

Question 14

Religious education

Answer 14

teaches us that we all explore life from different points of view