Theme 1. Core Principles: Resource pack
The Core Principles Resource Pack features nineteen original resources, presentations, exercises and stimuli for students to explore secularism's basic political philosophy of separation, freedom and equality. Through real world examples, different viewpoints and thought experiments, students will understand, apply, contrast and critique secularist reasoning.
This pack contains all the main resources in thus theme.
Questions in this theme:
- What is secularism?
- Is secularism a religion?
- Is secularism a form of atheism, agnosticism or humanism?
- Who is a secularist?
- How do secularists think about religion?
- How do secularists think about decisions?
- Why do people support or oppose secularism?
- Where does secularism come from?
- What different types of secularism are there?
- What are religious privilege, tolerance and discrimination?
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Quick links to individual resources:
- What is secularism (Part 1) - Presentation
- What is secularism? (Part 2) – Introduction
- Viewpoints on religion and secularism (part 1) – Religion and me
- Viewpoints on religion and secularism (part 2) – Religion and others
- Viewpoints on religion and secularism (part 3) – Obama, Abraham and Isaac
- How do secularists think about decisions? (Part 1) –Public reason giving
- How do secularists think about decisions? (Part 2) – The Lemon test
- How do secularists think about decisions? (Part 3) – You're the town council
- Religious privilege, tolerance and discrimination (part 1) – Basic principles
- Religious privilege, tolerance and discrimination (part 2) – What are they?
- Religious privilege, tolerance and discrimination (part 3) – How do we address them?
- Religious privilege, tolerance and discrimination (part 4) – The paradox of tolerance
- Different types of secularism (part 1) – Berlinerblau's "six types"
- Different types of secularism (part 2) – Secularism around the world
- Different types of secularism (part 3) –The Secular Charter
- Where does secularism come from?
- Why secularism? (Part 1) – Competing concepts
- Why secularism? (Part 2) – Viewpoints
- Glossary
Teachers, parents, students: check out these free resources that explore "What is secularism?" and other key questions.
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Why Explore Secularism? Secularism raises core questions in all of the humanities, about how we balance freedom of, and from, religion with other rights.
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