Religious Studies offers you an interesting and intellectually challenging A level. It asks difficult but crucial questions about life, the universe and everything! It furthers your understanding of the spiritual, moral, ethical, social and cultural dimensions of life. It demands your engagement with complex texts and concepts from across cultures and millennia that continue to shape our world, and encourages you to construct and defend your own arguments in response to them. • Philosophy of Religion - the study of existential issues (life, the universe and everything!), philosophical language and thought, including arguments regarding the existence or non-existence of God, the nature and influence of religious experience and the problems of evil and suffering. • Religion and Ethics - the study of ethical language and thought through significant concepts and the works of key thinkers, illustrated via debates about what’s right, what’s wrong and why in specific situations, and also by the application of ethical theory to issues of individual and global importance such as freedom, rights and justice (e.g. does the end justify the means? Is 'business ethics' an oxymoron?) • Developments in Religious Thought - an opportunity for the systematic study of one religious tradition, including an exploration of religious beliefs, values and teachings, the practices that shape and express religious identity, and religious responses to challenges (e.g. Marxism, Feminism, Psychology) and significant contemporary social issues such as gender and relationships.