Community Cohesion Flashcards
(15 cards)
Define discrimination
Treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gender/class etc.
Define community cohesion
Common vision and shared belonging for all groups in society.
Define ethnic minority
A member of an ethnic group which is much smaller than majority.
Define interfaith marriages
Marriage of two different religions
Define Multi-ethnic society
Many different races living together.
Define prejudice
Believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them.
Define racial harmony
Different races living together happily.
Define religious freedom
The right to practise your religion and change your religion.
Define religious pluralism
Accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist.
Traditional attitudes to Protestant Christianity
> St Paul teaches women should not teach or speak in church.
St Paul also uses the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis to show men have more rights.
Jesus chose men as his apostles.
What does St Paul say about women?
> St Paul teaches women should not teach or speak in church.
>St Paul also uses the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis to show men have more rights.
Modern attitudes to Protestant Christianity
> the creation story says God created male and female at the same time and therefore has equal status.
after jesus’s resurrection he appeared first to women.
in gospels Jesus treated women as his equal.
Catholic attitudes to men and women
> catholic catechism States men and women are equal.
only men can be priests because apostles were all men.
in the creation story God made men and women equal.
ISLAMIC traditional attitudes to women and men
> Only men should worship in mosques. Women should worship at home.
men should support women because men are stronger
only men can be Imams
ISLAMIC modern attitudes to women and men
> there were female religious leaders in early days of Islam
there is evidence that Muhammad encouraged both men and women to worship in the mosque.
qur’an teaches men and women are equal.
