Religious and Non-Religious Relationships Celibacy:
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Celibacy - St.Paul remained unmarried (Devotion to God)
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Roman Catholic priests have to remain celibate, they can't get married or have children
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Monks have to remain celibate as do nuns
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They do this because this is the life Jesus lived, the life that he had, he remained unmarried and childless because he was devoted to God
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Attitudes towards homosexuality, they encourage you to not act on the thoughts but instead ignore them
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Silver Ring Thing
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Authority comes from the Pope - direct link with God
Concubine - A woman who is attached to a man but is not his wife, so emperor's in China had lots of concubines, for things like sex as well as a wife
Fornication - Sex between two people who are not married to each other
Bread Winner - Men used to bring the money back for things like bread, as well as other food and other clothing or books needed
Why it's important that vows are said in front of God, you're making promises in front of God
Virginity Tests - In some places, if you fail them you are seen as used and so will not be able to marry
Explain how non-religious people are responding to the changing patterns of relationships:
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Changes: increase in co-habitation
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Rise in divorce rates (it used to seen as social taboo)
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Rising women in work - they are more independent (in things like finance give them more independence to do other things, they are no longer dependent on men)
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It is seen as bad for a woman to sleep with lots of men but not the same for men
HMF IWTD
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In Hong Kong it's not too bad, the conservative traditions, but it's not perfect yet
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Delayed marriage - they're living longer, able to have children later and so are getting married later, women used to get married really quickly but now we have more time
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Homosexuality - now a lot of people accept homosexuals, there are even homosexual priests but a long time ago it was not accepted
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A few years ago - maybe 50 - homosexuality was frowned upon, but it is changing and seen as less of a bad thing
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Increased sexual liberation, so they are living together and have sex regularly
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Cohabitation is done more now by non-religious people to see what it is going to be like to get married, like a trial
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Lots of people are deciding not to get married (Take Japan for an example, they aren't getting married or having children)
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Non-religious people don't care about getting married to people who have already been married before, so there is an increasing number of re-constituted families
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Delays in marriage are because non-religious people are more interested in finding jobs, so they are financially independent - so they aren't pressured to get married like people were before
AO2 questions - Explain
Describe one example of an interfaith relationship in practice
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They don't really mean a Muslim marrying a Christian
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A relationship doesn't have to be romantic - they share relations though
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It's really asking about two organisation that come from different faiths that work together, so a Islamic organisation working together with a Christian organisation
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Dalai Lama - Head of the Tibetan Buddhists
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Find an example of interfaith organisations which are functioning, what do they do? do they meet? do they organise talks? Does a priest talk to the Hindus? What happens?
Do this question for homework
For 8 mark questions, it's not that you need new points, maybe you should have more points but you have to use key terms and give reference to specific examples of things to get more marks and more detail and structure - don't repeat. Lot's of detail - don't need a million points.