Daily Practice · GCSE Religious Studies
January 2011 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day
Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in January 2011, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.
Every sheet in January 2011
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2011What term describes giving less moral weight to an animal's suffering purely because it is not human?
- 2nd January 2011Give one reason a believer might treat a vision as credible despite it not being independently verifiable.
- 3rd January 2011In which book of the New Testament is Paul's (then Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus described?
- 4th January 2011According to the free will defence, who is responsible for moral evil?
- 5th January 2011Name the secular philosopher who developed a rights-based, non-religious version of just war theory.
- 6th January 2011What does the Arabic term 'adl' mean?
- 7th January 2011What is the difference between individual deterrence and general deterrence?
- 8th January 2011Give one argument in favour of corporal punishment that focuses on deterring future crime, rather than on retribution.
- 9th January 2011Give one example of indirect discrimination.
- 10th January 2011State one reason religious groups might find it hard to promote racial harmony.
- 11th January 2011Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
- 12th January 2011Which apostle preached the first recorded Christian sermon, on the day of Pentecost?
- 13th January 2011State one feature of worship in a house church.
- 14th January 2011Name the Christian festival that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, 50 days after Easter.
- 15th January 2011According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
- 16th January 2011Give one reason Ibrahim's role as 'an imam (leader) for the people' (Qur'an 2:124) is significant for Shi'a belief.
- 17th January 2011Give one Arabic term for angels.
- 18th January 2011Name the Umayyad caliph whose forces were responsible for the death of Husayn at Karbala.
- 19th January 2011Which month does Ashura fall in?
- 20th January 2011Besides armed struggle and inner spiritual struggle, name one other way jihad can be expressed according to broader Islamic teaching.
- 21st January 2011Give one reason, other than religious teaching, why unmarried cohabiting couples have historically had fewer legal protections than married couples.
- 22nd January 2011According to 1 Corinthians 11:11-12, in what direction does dependence between men and women run?
- 23rd January 2011Give one practice associated with Catholic belief in purgatory that most Protestant churches do not follow.
- 24th January 2011According to the Qur'an (99:7-8), what happens to even the smallest good or bad deed a person does?
- 25th January 2011Which two branches of Islam does this topic compare when looking at attitudes to euthanasia?
- 26th January 2011Which 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?
- 27th January 2011Give one reason some people argue that faith imposed during upbringing is not the same as freely chosen, personal belief.
- 28th January 2011Name the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and his early followers from Makkah to Madinah to escape persecution.
- 29th January 2011Name the idea, based on a well-known hadith, used to show that the internal struggle against one's own faults is considered greater than armed struggle.
- 30th January 2011State one reason it can help a court to understand what has contributed to a person's offending before deciding a sentence.
- 31st January 2011Besides the victim and the offender, name one other group who can be affected by suffering linked to a crime and its punishment.