Sociology Paper 2 - Religion in a Global Context

This pack contains a 44 slide PowerPoint presentation and accompanying student booklet.

These lesson is a different style than the other BELIEFS lessons on this shop. However, the content is to the same quality (These are older versions of the lessons - the price is reduced to reflect this)

Lesson 1-

What is Globalisation? re-cap
Task - make a list of all the ways religion has been impacted by globalisation

Religious Fundamentalism
Examples
Characteristics of Religious Fundamentalism
Reading / comprehension activity

Research / potential presentation activity
Students to pick ONE Religious Fundamentalist group and then research the group using the criteria covered on previous slides

Cosmopolitanism
Pilgrims
Converts

Responses to Post Modernity
Resistant Identity
Project identity
Criticism of these view points

ASSESSMENT
10 mark question included
Teacher led planning activity
Peer assessment- Students in pairs to share their responses. Students will then develop/critique/re-write their partners work in an attempt to improve it

The second part of the lesson covers:

Monotheism
Steve Bruce: Fundamentalists:
Fundamentalists in the West
Fundamentalists in the Third World

Secular fundamentalism

Huntington:
Religions and the ‘clash of Civilisations’
Evaluation/Critiques of Huntington

Cultural Defence - examples
Poland
Iran

Religion and Development
God and Globalisation in India

Hinduism
Ultra-nationalism