Starter quiz
- What word describes the way we experience, understand, and respond to the world
- mirror
- worldview ✓
- interpretation
- vision
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- The three jewels are significant for many
- Sikhs
- Buddhists ✓
- Hindus
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- Which figure is seen as a common ancestor for many Muslims, Jews and Christians
- 'Abraham' ✓
- For many Christians, Jesus becoming human is known as
- reincarnation
- incarnation ✓
- avatar
- ensoulment
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- Which methods might be used by social scientists to better understand worldviews?
- analysing survey data ✓
- interpreting sacred texts
- interviewing people ✓
- thought experiments
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Exit quiz
- Which words describes a 17th and 18th-century movement focused on reason, science and individual rights
- Enlightenment ✓
- Worldview
- Renaissance
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- Which word describes a period of cultural, artistic, scientific and intellectual rebirth in Europe from the 14th to the 17th century
- Enlightenment
- Renaissance ✓
- revolution
- worldview
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- The way we experience, understand, and respond to the world is known as a
- 'worldview ' ✓
- Which statement is most accurate about Renaissance humanists
- they did not believe in God
- they believed in God in the same way as in the Middle Ages
- they believed in God, but also focussed on reason and human potential
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- Renaissance ideas spread rapdily due to which invention
- telescope
- illuminated manuscripts
- printing press ✓
- telegraph
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Key learning points
- Some worldviews are collective, reflecting the shared values of a society or era.
- The Renaissance marks the end of the Middle Ages & is characterised by striving for progress in thought and creativity.
- The Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement in 17th and 18th-century Europe.
- As the worldview of the Middle Ages changed, the Church’s control over politics and life lessened.
Common misconception
Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers gave up the belief in God.
Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers questioned religious authority but didn't necessarily stop believing in God, focusing instead on reason and human potential.
Keywords
The enlightenment - a 17th and 18th-century movement emphasising reason, science and individual rights
Humanism (of the renaissance) - a movement that emphasised the value of human potential, drawing inspiration from classical Greek and Roman ideas
Politics - the activities and decisions involved in governing a society or state
The renaissance - a period of cultural, artistic, scientific and intellectual rebirth in Europe from the 14th to the 17th century
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