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Religious Studies

The Religious Studies Department aims to challenge preconceptions and received ideas; to sharpen up and develop thinking skills as a means of acquiring a maturity of outlook which is able to accept the ambiguities and ambivalences inherent in moral issues and to encourage tolerance of other views and beliefs via knowledge and understanding of similarity and difference.   

Courses in RS build from the acquisition of knowledge and understanding of major religions, through the philosophical issues raised by religion, to explore the moral and ethical questions raised by medical science and from there to issues of personal development, evolution and cosmology.

S1 and S2

Religious Studies is taught as part of a carousel or rota in S1 and through assembly time in S2.

The aim of the religious studies department is to ensure a common level of knowledge and understanding of spiritual issues with a view to this being the basis for future areas of study and to encourage tolerance of other views and beliefs through better knowledge and understanding of religious positions. Among the issues that are addressed are the following: Comparative study of the six major world faiths - key figures; main tenets of these faiths; classic arguments for the existence of God evaluated; bases for moral stances; a selection of moral issues is examined.