Religious Studies

Course summary

Students explore the philosophy of religion, including arguments for the existence of God, evil and suffering, religious experience and language, miracles, self and life after death. Students also take a module in ethics and religion, including ethical theories, issues of human life and death, issues of animal life and death, introduction to meta ethics, free will and moral responsibility, conscience, Bentham and Kant. In Upper Sixth, students carry out a study of Christianity, including sources of wisdom and authority, expression of religious identity, gender and sexuality, science, secularisation and religious pluralism.