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How do I my potential? Am I totally free? How do I the community? Society Spirituality and belief Conscience Freedom, decision making and identity Volunteers, citizenship and global concerns Meaning and purpose What is the purpose of life? What are some answers people have to this? What have the world religions said about the meaning and purpose of life? How do my actions and decisions my life? Must there be suffering? Why do bad things happen to good people? Meaning and purpose Belief systems offer explanations of the meaning and purpose of life through ideas such as moksha, dharma, karma, existentialism, theodicy, determinism, free will Ideas about suffering, pain, punishment, merit, reward, sin, accident, roles/vocation/meaning, evil, natural order, consequences People seek explanations for life’s contradictory experiences, such as pain and pleasure, ill fortune and good fortune, cruelty and kindness Destiny Is there such a thing as human destiny? Can we control our destiny? What happens when we die? How do the world religions explain what happens after death? can I find answers to these questions? How does religion help people make meaning? Is all thinking equally valid? Destiny Ideas about individual and corporate destiny, common good, destiny myths, death, dying, immortality and infinity, predestination, election, enlightenment, reincarnation, transmigration, oblivion Investigating What approaches/methodologies are available to assist in this investigation? How do religious traditions answer questions meaning and purpose? Are there divergent responses within and between religious traditions to ultimate questions? How have artists, musicians, philosophers, scientists, mystics responded to such questions? What insights can other disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, biological/physical sciences and sociology offer regarding ultimate questions? How do non-religious belief systems such as humanism, Marxism and capitalism respond to ultimate questions? Creation stories and religious myths, legends and texts that give insight to the meaning of life Religious, philosophical, scientific explanations of the meaning and purpose of life Religious explanations offer the prospect of perfect states and resolutions in the afterlife Identity is shaped by religious belief, practice and the sense of belonging to a tradition Theories of personal development in religion (refer to Fowler, Kohlberg, Gilligan) Ultimate questions are considered by disciplines and ideologies other than Christianity Reasoning
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