Free VCE Year 11 Religion and Society Flashcard Review

A community organised around beliefs about ultimate reality, with the resulting practices, principles and codes of behaviour; the term includes spiritualities.

Beliefs; ethics; rituals; sacred stories; social structures; spaces, places, times and artefacts; spiritual experiences; symbols; texts.

Each aspect connects to others; in particular, beliefs are expressed and reinforced through rituals, stories, texts, symbols, spaces and ethics.

Any three of: explaining the world; answering big questions; giving meaning and hope; building community; shaping identity; guiding ethics; marking life transitions.

Compare identifiable contexts and sources. Stonehenge has modern spiritual significance for some visitors, while its exact prehistoric ceremonial purposes remain uncertain; modern practices cannot simply be projected backwards.

A sacred text may answer the question of origins with reverent questioning, suggesting the one overseeing creation from highest heaven may not know how creation began.

A Babylonian creation narrative in which Marduk forms the covering of heaven from part of the defeated Tiamat’s body, linking creation to Babylon’s patron god.

He set them aside, using the image of a wounded man who will not accept treatment until he knows who shot the arrow; ending suffering is the priority.

Sharing a free meal, seated together regardless of status, turns the belief in equality into ritual and ethical action (seva).

A bar or bat mitzvah marks a young Jew taking on responsibility for the commandments, meeting needs for identity and belonging.

Primary sources provide direct evidence for a question; secondary sources analyse evidence. Classification depends on use and context, not simply whether the author belongs to the tradition.

Interpret it (origin, purpose, perspective), synthesise it with other knowledge, and apply it to a specific claim about an aspect of religion.

There are no written sources, so ideas are inferred from material remains such as monuments, burials and art, and interpretations are debated.

UNESCO dates its monumental structures to 9600–8200 BCE and associates them with hunter-gatherer communities. Ritual, possibly funerary, purposes are interpretations of the evidence, not a complete known creed.

The pharaoh was the link between gods and people and was responsible for maintaining maat, cosmic order.

Learning beliefs, values and practices of a religion through family, community, worship, education and ritual, so they pass between generations.

Children ask set questions, and the Haggadah, symbolic foods and the Exodus story pass on Jewish memory and identity.

Printing helped circulate Luther’s reforming arguments after 1517 and widened opportunities for religious debate. Its effects depended on access and literacy; it did not automatically end church authority.

Quaker and evangelical Christians helped initiate the campaign that led to the British Slave Trade Act of 1807.

The council (1962–65) authorised wider vernacular use under church authority while retaining Latin in the Latin rites; this modified ritual practice rather than abolishing Latin everywhere.