Religious and Non-Religious Relationships

Celibacy:

Celibacy - St.Paul remained unmarried (Devotion to God)

Roman Catholic priests have to remain celibate, they can't get married or have children

Monks have to remain celibate as do nuns

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

Attitudes towards homosexuality, they encourage you to not act on the thoughts but
instead ignore them

Silver Ring Thing

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:

Changes: increase in co-habitation

Rise in divorce rates (it used to seen as social taboo)

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)

It is seen as bad for a woman to sleep with lots of men but not the same for men

HMF IWTD

In Hong Kong it's not too bad, the conservative traditions, but it's not perfect yet

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

Homosexuality - now a lot of people accept homosexuals, there are even homosexual
priests but a long time ago it was not accepted

A few years ago - maybe 50 - homosexuality was frowned upon, but it is changing and seen
as less of a bad thing

Increased sexual liberation, so they are living together and have sex regularly

Cohabitation is done more now by non-religious people to see what it is going to be like to
get married, like a trial

Lots of people are deciding not to get married (Take Japan for an example, they aren't
getting married or having children)

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

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

They don't really mean aMuslimmarrying aChristian

A relationship doesn't have to be romantic - they share relations though

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

Dalai Lama - Head of the Tibetan Buddhists

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.