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AQA AL RS - Myths, Symbols, Analogy (Religious Language)
8 pages of comprehensive notes covering the use of myths, symbols and analogies as forms of religious languages. Including notes on Tillich, Randall, analogy of attribution/proportion, and evaluation.
Main source: Y2 Hodder Education AQA A-Level Religious Studies Textbook
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AQA AS/AL Sociology - Debates and Values
There are 7 pages covering two topics as part of the theory and methods unit of AQA AL Sociology (sociology & science and objectivity & values).
The main source was the textbook (AQA A-Level Sociology Book 2, Napier Press), shortened and with extra research and notes added in.
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AQA AL RS - S, D, & A: Supporting Information
6 pages of comprehensive notes of information to support the content covered as part of the self, death, and afterlife topic at AQA AL RS.
It includes: parapsychology, karma/rebirth, reasons for belief in life after death, resurrection, freewill, and the connection between religious language and the afterlife.
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AQA AS/AL RS - Religious Experience Study Guide
A comprehensive set of notes on Natural Moral Law for the AQA AS/AL RS specification. 9 pages of the nature of REs, challenges to them, their influence, and the value of them.
Main source: Year 2 Hodder Education Religious Studies Textbook.
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AQA AS/AL RS - Ontological Argument Notes
6 pages of comprehensive notes covering everything students need to know about the ontological argument for the existence of God.
Main source: Y2 AQA A-Level Hodder Education Religious Studies Textbook.
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AQA AS/AL RS - Buddhism: Sources of Wisdom and Authority
There are 12 pages of notes covering everything students need to know about the Sources of Wisdom and Authority topic for the Buddhism unit for AQA AS/AL RS.
It covers:
The significance of the Buddha’s life, including his life story (birth, early life, Four Sights, renunciation, and enlightenment).
The Buddha as a role model.
The Buddha in the Mahayana Buddhist View (Parable of the Burning House; ‘skilful means’; Three Bodies of the Buddha).
The Three Marks of Existence, inc. the three types of dukkha.
The Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path.
Debate on whether Buddhism is Pessimistic.
Nature, authority, accuracy, and importance/relevance of the Pali Canon.
It also includes a glossary and the sources used.
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AQA AS/AL RS - Natural Moral Law Study Guide
A comprehensive set of notes on Natural Moral Law for the AQA AS/AL RS specification. 11 pages of the key features, including primary/secondary precepts, proportionalism, the four tiers of law, interior/exterior acts, real/apparent good, and evaluations.
Sources used are listed on the first page of the document.
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AQA AS/AL RS - Problem of Evil Notes
A comprehensive set of notes on Natural Moral Law for the AQA AS/AL RS specification. 15 pages of the logical and evidential problem of evil, responses and solutions to evil, free will defence, the soul-making/soul-deciding theodicies, process theology and evaluations.
Main source: Year 2 Hodder Education Religious Studies Textbook.
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AQA AL RS - Miracles Study Guide
A comprehensive set of notes on miracles for the AQA AS/AL RS specification. 12 pages of the key features, including realist-anti-realist views and the significance of them on religion, Hume and Wiles, miracles as proof of God’s existence, evaluations, strengths and weaknesses of miracles, and more.
Sources used are listed on the first page of the document.
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AQA AL RS - Meta-Ethics Knowledge Organiser
11 slides covering meta-ethics in depth, made primarily for the AQA specification, but content may be useful for other exam boards.
Sources used are listed on the first page.
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AQA AS/AL RS - Buddhism: Gender Knowledge Organiser
There are 10 slides covering everything students need to know about the Gender topic from the Buddhism unit in AQA AS/AL RS.
The slides cover everything specified in the spec:
Historical and social factors influencing gender:
Changing nature of Tourism in Thailand and the effect on Thai Buddhists.
Factors in Thailand that could influence Buddhist views of women today.
Changing roles of women; women in Buddha’s time; Eight Garudhammas.
Traditional women’s roles compared to contemporary women’s roles.
‘Is Buddhism feminist?’ debate.
Female Ordination:
Arguments for and against female ordination in Buddhism (covers 3 slides).
Historical Status of Women in Thailand and what it means for bhikkhunis.
Reality of Nuns in Thailand - is it Good?
How Buddhist nuns have changed Buddhism, inc. Ananda, Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, the Therigata, Sakyadhita Organisation.
Buddhist Views on Celibacy, Marriage, Homosexuality, and Transgenderism
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AQA AS/AL RS - Buddhism: Science Knowledge Organiser
There are 15 slides covering everything students need to know for the science topic of the Buddhism unit in the AQA AS/AL RS course.
They cover:
Modern Science
Is Buddhism rational?
Buddhism and Scientific Discoveries
Is Science Valuable? -
Arguments for and against
Buddha and the Search for Unanswerable Questions
Scholarly Views on Buddhism and Science (Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh)
Buddhism and quantum physics
Miracles and karma
Genetic engineering
There are also a few exam questions at the end.
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AQA AL RS: Buddhism - Secularism Knowledge Organiser
14 slides covering the Buddhism and Secularism topic, as part of the AQA A-Level RS (Philosophy, Religion and Ethics) Buddhism unit. Everything mentioned in the specification on the cover slide is discussed in these slides.
I have tried to note the authors and sources of all the information used in the respective slides.
Some exam and summary questions are also included.
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AQA AL RS - Self, Death and Afterlife Study Guide
25 pages of comprehensive notes covering everything students need to know for the Self, Death and Afterlife topic in AQA philosophy.
Specific contents can be found in the images.
Sources listed throughout the decoument. Main source: Y2 AQA A-Level Hodder Education Religious Studies Textbook
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AQA AL RS - Bentham and Kant Notes
15 pages of everything students need to know about Bentham and Kant. These comprehensive notes cover everything on the specification and a lot more.
Topics included are shown in the images of the source.
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