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The Living Faiths series encourages students to actively engage with RE by looking into how faiths are practised and lived in people's daily lives. This Teacher Guide covers Hinduism and demonstrates a flexible style, allowing Hinduism to be taught by themes. Extra support is provided through practical tasks for class and homework use.

One of a series that focuses on major religions and their relevance to contemporary life. It offers a balance of information about each religion and an exploration of how we can learn from it. The text looks at the founders and significant individuals in the religion and its key beliefs, signs and symbols. Worship is also covered, the festivals, celebrations, rites of passage, pilgrimages and sacred places. Moral issues and ultimate questions are presented and considered. The concepts explored i...

This highly-illlustrated textbook builds on the strengths of the current edition but now meets the demands of all GCSE Specifications on this topic. Through the comprehensive text, tasks, review activities and exam-style questions, students will have a thorough understanding of the issues surrounding this topic. This comprehensive book provides students with all the information they need on this subject.

The differentiated approach to religion-by-religion teaching

Find out why lights are so important in the festival of Diwali, read about the story of Diwali, which gods are worshiped and what traditions are carried out each year. Discover how Hindus and Sikhs all over the world celebrate this important festival through worship, food, body decoration, fireworks and dancing. This book includes the festival's religious origin and history, as well as the different ingredients that make up the celebration today. An illustrated map shows where the festival is ce...

Provide students with a strong understanding of religion with high quality, engaging and content-rich resources building a firm foundation for the new GCSE 9-1 Religious Studies. Deliver a rich, coherent RE course at KS3 and equip pupils with a deep understanding of religion with ready-made, flexible and high quality KS3 lessons. ‘Knowing Religion’ is written by an author team of experienced RE teachers and led by series editor Robert Orme of West London Free School....

This innovative course gives you the flexibility to deliver Key Stage 3 Religious Education however you want - both thematically and/or by religion.InspiRE comprises two parallel sets of books: Themes to InspiRE, three books (one for each year of Key Stage 3) that cover the non-statutory Programme of Study for Religious Education through an exploration of thematic issues and concepts. Religions to InspiRE, seven 'by religion' books that exemplify the themes and expand them from the points of vie...

One of a series of dictionaries of world religions designed for GCSE, this has topics and terms relevant to Hinduism arranged alphabetically and given concise explanatory entries. These range from basic concepts such as "Brahman" and caste to important Sanskrit terms such as "varnashrama dharma". The author has lived and taught in India, and has written several books on Hinduism and India.

The Living Faiths series encourages students to actively engage with religious education by looking into how faiths are practised and lived in people's daily lives. This Student Book covers Hinduism through unique real-life case studies of young people and their families, making RE relevant to KS3 RE Students today. This Student Book uses an enquiry-led approach to help students relate to religion through engaging activities, end-of-chapter assessment tasks, and links to rich audio-visual conten...

Ideal support for lower-ability pupils

"The Personal Search Series" from Hodder Gibson offers pupils - and teachers - the chance to explore the discovery and development of beliefs across a variety of religions. Based on responses to national reports that pinpointed difficulties in teaching personal search elements of religious education, the series aims to provide practical materials that will assist pupils in their own personal searches, as well as helping them to make connections between their own searches and those of other world...

This text offers a study of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Hinduism. The book highlights key questions and covers the following topics for all four religions: history; belief; understanding God; understanding human existence; buildings; celebrations; pilgrimages; rites of passage - birth, adolescence, marriage, family life and death; holy scriptures; and religion in the contemporary world.