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January 1986 5-a-day

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January 1986

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  1. 1st January 1986What is the Shi'a-specific religious payment, additional to zakah, called?
  2. 2nd January 1986Give two features that make dua different from the fixed structure of Salah.
  3. 3rd January 1986In what year did same-sex couples first legally marry in England and Wales?
  4. 4th January 1986State one reason cohabitation has become more common in the UK.
  5. 5th January 1986In what year was Laudato Si' published?
  6. 6th January 1986What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
  7. 7th January 1986Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
  8. 8th January 1986In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
  9. 9th January 1986According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
  10. 10th January 1986Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
  11. 11th January 1986What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
  12. 12th January 1986What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
  13. 13th January 1986Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
  14. 14th January 1986Give one example of indirect discrimination.
  15. 15th January 1986State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
  16. 16th January 1986Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  17. 17th January 1986Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
  18. 18th January 1986State one feature of worship in a house church.
  19. 19th January 1986Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
  20. 20th January 1986According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  21. 21st January 1986Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
  22. 22nd January 1986Give one Arabic term for angels.
  23. 23rd January 1986Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
  24. 24th January 1986Which month does Ashura fall in?
  25. 25th January 1986Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
  26. 26th January 1986Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
  27. 27th January 1986According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
  28. 28th January 1986Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
  29. 29th January 1986According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
  30. 30th January 1986Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
  31. 31st January 1986Which two philosophers are most associated with the objection that the universe as a whole may not need a cause, even though things within it do?