Religious Education · KS3 to A Level
Religious Studies Key Terms
Every word a religious studies department teaches, Year 7 to A Level, in one A4 book. Each key stage gets its own pages: the terms grouped the way they are taught rather than alphabetically, a definition that fits on two lines, and a worked example beside almost every one. Each key stage opens on two short sentences, annotated: studying religion and belief, the one skill every other band assumes, which means asking who holds a view, where believers differ and what a source's authority rests on. The numbers on those sentences appear again beside the same words in the list. GCSE then goes religion by religion, following the DfE's list, before the themes and arguments; A Level covers approaches to the study of religion, philosophy of religion, religion and ethics, texts and their study, and religion and society. Then a page on using the words: the ones the assessment itself is written in, the false friends that mean something else in an RE classroom, the same point written weakly and then properly, and what each word becomes at the next key stage.
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- Referenced to RE is not part of the national curriculum and has no national programme of study, so the Key Stage 3 words are the vocabulary local agreed syllabuses build towards, taken from the DfE's religious studies GCSE subject content (February 2015); the GCSE pages follow that document's Annex A for Buddhism, Christianity, Catholic Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism, and its themes; the A Level pages follow the DfE's AS and A level religious studies subject content (February 2015); GCSE and A Level also draw on Ofqual's subject-level guidance and conditions, which set the assessment objectives used on the words-at-work pages; 234 of 326 terms appear by name in one of those documents and the cover says so, the rest are standard religious studies vocabulary defined here in plain English; no awarding body is named, and nothing a board decides for itself appears in the A Level pages
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