Friday, 6 February 2015
New Unit: Religion and Prejudice

• Types of prejudice, including religion, race, colour, gender, age, disability, class, lifestyle, looks;
• The causes and origins of prejudice, including ignorance, stereotyping, scapegoating, influence of parents or media, victims of prejudice, experience;
• Concepts of tolerance, justice, harmony and the value of the individual;
• Religious attitudes to prejudice and discrimination;
• Effects of prejudice and discrimination (including the idea of positive discrimination);
• Religious responses to prejudice and discrimination by individuals, groups, society and the law;
• Religious believers who have fought against prejudice, e.g. Mahatma Gandhi (Hinduism), Martin Luther King (Christian Baptist), Desmond Tutu (Christian CoE), Malcolm X (Islam).
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