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Eduqas (KS4)

KS3 & KS4 religious education curriculum

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Year 8

Psychology: is our brain designed to believe?

6 lessons

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  • Meaning and purpose
  • Nature of religion and belief

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In this unit there is a choice. Through a social science lens, pupils consider how psychologists analyse the phenomenon of religion. Or they may study the flowering of philosophy at the time of the Enlightenment through a depth study of Hobbes and Rousseau and their ideas of religion and society.

The psychology unit builds on the study of the nature and philosophy of belief in Year 7. It explores the cognitive science of belief that will prepare them for examining religious experience in the next unit. The 'Religion and political philosophy' unit is placed here so that by exploring life in the 'state of nature', pupils pupils build on what they have learnt about ethics at the beginning of Year 8. This unit lays a foundation for future learning on religious and secular authority and precedes study into the need for the ten commandments, crime and punishment in Year 9.

  1. Defining religion
  2. Cognitive science of religion
  3. The temporal lobe
  4. Religion as nature or nurture
  5. Possible psychological benefits of religion
  6. Possible psychological explanations for religion
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