Studies of Religion flashcards

308 HSC Studies of Religion cards across 8 modules (124 definitions, 123 key facts, 61 fill-the-gap, 0 formulas). Each session gives you 20 cards, due cards first. Swipe right for easy, left for hard, down for again. Keyboard: Space to flip, 1 to 4 to rate.

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Buddhist ethical teachings on sexual ethics: HSC Studies of Religion
Define Intention matters
"It is intention that I call deeds" (AN 6.63). The same outward act can be wholesome or unwholesome depending on the mind behind it.
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Christian ethical teachings on bioethics: HSC Studies of Religion
Define Scripture (NRSVue)
Genesis 1:27 (image of God); Exodus 20:13 ("You shall not murder"); Psalm 139:13 ("you knit me together in my mother's womb"); Deuteronomy 30:19 ("Choose life"); Matthew 22:39 (love your neighbour); Matthew 25:36 ("I was sick and you took care of me"); Luke 10:33-34 (Good Samaritan); 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (body as temple); Galatians 5:13 (freedom through love). Catechism: 2258 (life sacred), 2270 (from conception), 2274 (embryo as a person), 2277 (euthanasia "morally unacceptable"), 2278 (over-zealous treatment), 2279 (double effect; palliative care), 2280 ("stewards, not owners"), 2295 (research limits), 2296 (organ donation), 2376 to 2378 (IVF; "a child is ... a gift"). Documents: Donum Vitae (1987), Evangelium Vitae (1995; "culture of death"), Dignitas Personae (2008). Australia: voluntary assisted dying laws in every state (2017 to 2022); Uniting Church: no single national position.
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Hindu ethical teachings on bioethics: HSC Studies of Religion
Define Ahimsa
Ahimsa (non-harm), the first of the yamas (Yoga Sutra 2.30) and a divine quality (Gita 16.1-3), leads many Hindus to oppose abortion (except to save the mother's life), sex selection and active euthanasia. Karma and rebirth (Gita 2.27) mean that hastening death may leave karma unresolved, while giving life and relieving suffering create good karma. Dharma frames duties of family (children and the householder stage, so IVF within marriage is widely accepted) and of doctors, done without attachment to results (Gita 2.47). Daya (compassion) and dana (giving) support palliative care and organ donation, illustrated by the sage Dadhichi. Because Hinduism has no central authority, views vary; practices such as prayopavesa and debates over donor conception show the range. In India, prenatal sex determination is banned (PCPNDT Act 1994) and passive euthanasia and living wills were allowed by the Supreme Court (2011, 2018).
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Islamic ethical teachings on environmental ethics: HSC Studies of Religion
Define Ijma
Ijma (consensus of scholars) and qiyas (reasoning by analogy from an established ruling to a new case).
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Jewish ethical teachings on sexual ethics: HSC Studies of Religion
Define Orthodox
Judaism (halakhah, Jewish law, is binding and unchanging in its principles), Conservative/Masorti Judaism (halakhah is binding but develops) and Reform/Progressive Judaism (halakhah guides but individual ethical autonomy decides).
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Comparing Buddhism and Humanism on the transcendent, the human person and social responsibility: HSC Studies of Religion II
Define Humanism
Humanism is a non-religious worldview whose defining statement is the Amsterdam Declaration of Humanists International (1952, updated 2002 and 2022). Humanists International's Minimum Statement on Humanism defines it as "a democratic and ethical life stance, which affirms that human beings have the right and responsibility to give meaning and shape to their own lives". At the 2021 Census, 38.9% of Australians reported no religion; not all are humanists, but Humanism offers many a framework for meaning.
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Inner peace in Christianity and Islam: HSC Studies of Religion
Define Christianity
John 14:27; John 16:33 ("in me you may have peace"); Matthew 11:28-29 ("rest for your souls"); Philippians 4:6-7; Galatians 5:22 (peace as fruit of the Spirit); Matthew 6:6 (private prayer); Matthew 18:21-22 (forgive seventy-seven times); Catechism 1468 (reconciliation brings "peace and serenity of conscience"); Augustine, Confessions 1.1 ("our hearts are restless until they rest in You"); practices: prayer, Eucharist, reconciliation, Rosary, Lectio Divina, Christian meditation, Taize. Islam: 13:28 (hearts assured by remembrance); 48:4 (sakinah, tranquillity); 89:27-28 (the reassured soul); 91:9-10 (purifying the self); 29:45 (prayer restrains wrongdoing); 2:183 (fasting for taqwa); 65:3 (tawakkul); 39:53 (do not despair of mercy); 94:5-6 ("with hardship [will be] ease"); Hadith: Abu Dawud 4985 (comfort in prayer), Bukhari 528 (five prayers wash away sins), Tirmidhi 1621 (striving against the self), Bukhari 6114 (control anger).
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Aboriginal spirituality, the Dreaming, dispossession and the Land Rights movement: HSC Studies of Religion
Define Dreaming
Dreaming (a translation of many different terms in Aboriginal languages) is the foundation of Aboriginal spiritualities. It is not a myth about the distant past: it is an ever-present reality, sometimes called "the everywhen", in which ancestral beings created the land, waterways, plants, animals and people, established the law, and remain present in the land. It gives meaning, law and identity to every part of life.
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Principal beliefs and sacred texts of Buddhism: HSC Studies of Religion
Define Dukkha
Life involves suffering and unsatisfactoriness, from obvious pain to the subtle dissatisfaction of impermanent things.
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Hildegard of Bingen as a significant person in Christianity: HSC Studies of Religion
Define Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen (1098 to 1179) was a German Benedictine nun who became magistra (about 1136) and later abbess of two communities she founded, Rupertsberg (about 1150) and Eibingen (1165). From childhood she experienced visions; encouraged by Bernard of Clairvaux and authorised by Pope Eugene III at the Synod of Trier (1147) "to write and to speak in public", she recorded them in Scivias, the Liber vitae meritorum and the Liber divinorum operum. Her contribution to expression: liturgical music (the Symphonia), the sung drama Ordo Virtutum, a spirituality of creation as "a symphony of the Holy Spirit" and of God's life-giving viriditas ("greenness"), and a model of Benedictine prayer and work. Her contribution to development: a woman teaching with papal approval, preaching tours to cathedral cities, about 400 letters calling popes, bishops and the Emperor to reform, and a theology uniting creation, the human person and salvation. Impact: rediscovered in the twentieth century (music, creation theology, women's leadership); declared a Doctor of the Church by Benedict XVI on 7 October 2012. Limits: her influence faded for centuries, her medicine and cosmology are medieval, and modern movements sometimes misuse her name.