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July 2014 - GCSE Religious Studies 5-a-day

Every GCSE Religious Studies sheet published in July 2014, with answers. Beliefs, practices, key terms and the arguments set against them.

Every sheet in July 2014

The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.

  1. 1st July 2014Give one example of a media method a church might use to spread the Christian message today.
  2. 2nd July 2014Define adab as used in this topic.
  3. 3rd July 2014What does tahrif mean?
  4. 4th July 2014Name the bridge that, according to Muslim tradition, will stretch over Jahannam on the Day of Judgement.
  5. 5th July 2014What is meant by Zakah?
  6. 6th July 2014True or false: charity given voluntarily, beyond the obligatory zakah, is called sadaqah.
  7. 7th July 2014On which day of the week is Jummah prayer performed?
  8. 8th July 2014Give one reason a couple might choose to cohabit rather than marry.
  9. 9th July 2014What is meant by a nuclear family?
  10. 10th July 2014In what year was Laudato Si' published?
  11. 11th July 2014According to Genesis 1:28, what authority did God give humans over animals?
  12. 12th July 2014Give one psychological explanation sceptics use to challenge visions as reliable evidence of God.
  13. 13th July 2014In which decade did the charismatic Christian phenomenon known as the Toronto Blessing begin?
  14. 14th July 2014What do believers in afterlife compensation hope will happen to suffering after death?
  15. 15th July 2014What historical conflict is commonly used as a case study of 'holy war'?
  16. 16th July 2014Why might a Muslim link justice (adl) to a desire for peace?
  17. 17th July 2014State one criticism of retribution as the sole aim of punishment.
  18. 18th July 2014Name one form of corporal punishment used historically in the UK.
  19. 19th July 2014Name the Act of Parliament, and the year it was passed, that lists the protected characteristics in UK law.
  20. 20th July 2014Name one piece of US legislation that followed from the civil rights movement King helped lead.
  21. 21st July 2014Give the technical term for a theory of atonement that sees Christ's obedience as reversing or 'undoing' Adam's disobedience.
  22. 22nd July 2014According to Acts 1:10-11, what did the two men in white tell the disciples as Jesus ascended?
  23. 23rd July 2014Give one factor that has contributed to falling attendance at traditional Sunday services in Britain.
  24. 24th July 2014Give one symbol associated with Pentecost and state what it represents.
  25. 25th July 2014According to 1 Corinthians 10:16, what does drinking the cup during Communion involve, in Paul's words?
  26. 26th July 2014Which two people are believed to have rebuilt the foundations of the Ka'bah, according to Qur'an 2:127?
  27. 27th July 2014What is the Arabic term for the angels who record human deeds, sometimes translated 'Noble Recorders'?
  28. 28th July 2014Give one reason the assassination of the third caliph, Uthman, is significant in the history of the Sunni-Shia split.
  29. 29th July 2014Give one Qur'an reference used to support keeping five separate daily prayer times.
  30. 30th July 2014True or false: mainstream Muslim scholarship regards terrorism as a legitimate form of jihad.
  31. 31st July 2014State one difference between cohabitation and a civil partnership in the UK.