Description

A full colour text written to the NSW HSC Studies of Religion I syllabus covering the five prescribed religions and extending into topics such as significant people, ideas and practices, and ethics.

•Contemporary Aboriginal Spirituality
• Religious Expression in Australia since 1945
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Judaism
• Religion and Peace
• Religion and Non-Religion

Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgements
1 Contemporary Aboriginal Spirituality 
Aboriginal Spirituality and the Dreaming
Kinship
Ceremonial life
Obligations to the land and the people
Issues for Aboriginal Spirituality
The effect of dispossession
Land Rights Movement
Land Rights and Dreaming
Questions
2 Religious Expression in Australia since 1945
The religious landscape since 1945
Changing patterns of religious adherence
The current religious landscape
Religious dialogue in multifaith Australia
Ecumenical movements within Christianity
Interfaith dialogue
Reconciliation and religious traditions
Questions
3 Buddhism 
Significant people and ideas
Emperor Asoka
Sister Dhammadinna
XIVth Dalai Lama
Ethics
Bioethics
Environmental issues
Sexual ethics
Significant practices
Pilgimage
Temple puja
Wesak
Questions
4 Christianity 
Significant people and ideas
Paul of Tarsus
Hildegard of Bingen
Martin Luther
Ethics
Bioethics
Environmetal issues
Sexual ethics
Significant practices
Baptism
Marriage ceremony
Sunday worship
Questions
5 Hinduism 
Significant people and ideas
Mirabai
Mohandas Gandhi
Ethics
Bioethics
Environmental issues
Significant practices
Pilgrimage
Temple puja
Marriage
Questions
6 Islam 
Significant people and ideas
Khadijah Bint Khuwaylid
Rabi’a al-Adawiyya
Sayyid Qutb
Ethics
Shari’ah law
Bioethics
Environmental issues
Sexual ethics
Significant practices
Friday prayer at the mosque
Funeral ceremony
Hajj
Questions