Articles about Hinduism
This article is for paying subscribers Real voices
In keeping with our theme of messy religions and worldviews, we sought contributions from people whose beliefs and ways of living do not fit neatly into the traditional categories we often refer to in RE. Here they...
This article is for paying subscribers Using Hindu scripture: the Vedas and Upanishads – a selection of texts and ideas for 9–18s
How can young people make sense of the vastness and antiquity of sources of wisdom and authority within religions?
This article is for paying subscribers The Gita for children: a new version to bring Hindu scripture to life in your classroom
Simplified scriptures are a great teaching tool. Teachers of RE have long used simplified versions of biblical story books to teach Christianity, and My First Qur’an is a big seller from the NATRE shop, offering...
Religion and RE: yesterday and tomorrow
RE is a subject with a past and a future, linked in all kinds of ways. Our communities press our governments across the UK to change the subject to be better suited to learning in the coming decade.
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
We invited members of different communities to share their ideas about the theme of REToday for this term, and the following pages give their views. You could use these questions with senior students in your school as...
This article is for paying subscribers Three young Hindu pilgrims getting fresh visions of their world
Three young people, Keli and Sita, both 10, and Yamuna, 18, describe the big experience of Hindu pilgrimage and how it changed the ways they see the world. We all look at life from the lenses of our habitual...
This article is for paying subscribers Mother Earth has a hole in her heart
Looking through the lenses of ahimsa,
science and history to correct the
blindness of commercialism and heal
Mother Earth
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
Eleven worldview questions: a way of opening up the concept of worldviews for your pupils
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An example from Hindu tradition of justice in action
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
This term’s theme of pilgrimage and the journey of life led us to invite people from different communities to answer a set of questions from the perspective of their religion or worldview. The same seven questions...
This article is for paying subscribers Researching the religions and worldviews in RE: perspectives from inside a faith/worldview
Each issue of REtoday includes a set of pages from different writers to help RE teachers understand insider views. This issue is about RE and research, and we invited responses to the questions below from...
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
We invited people from different religions and worldviews to respond to some questions about this term’s theme of ‘religion and justice’. Why not give the questions we asked to your students and ask them to...
This article is for paying subscribers How should RE represent issues about caste in the classroom?
Professor Eleanor Nesbitt of the University of Warwick and Lat Blaylock, REtoday Editor, have some research-based suggestions for teaching about caste. The challenge is for teachers to recognise the place of caste in...
This article is for paying subscribers BAPS and social justice: a Hindu community
Secondary RE teacher Steven Humphrys explores how RE teachers can locate Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) in Swaminarayan Hinduism. Teachers of RE have come to love the Neasden Temple...
This article is for paying subscribers Inside a faith
We asked people from inside different faiths to write an article about their identity from these eight questions. Consider your own answers to the questions – jot down some notes. Then read the examples on the next...
This article is for paying subscribers When Greta Thunberg met Pope Francis
This activity is simple, flexible and potentially profound. A part of good RE around green issues is to consider whether religions have a part to play in climate justice and responding to the climate crisis, and to...
This article is for paying subscribers Greener religion for infants?
Fiona Moss, NATRE CEO, suggests six ways to enable green thinking in RE for 4–7s.
This article is for paying subscribers ‘Greening’ celebrations
Julia Diamond-Conway, RE Adviser with RE Today, shares some ideas for the classroom based upon the fact that religions are seeking greener practices around key festivities.
This article is for paying subscribers Prayer at Varanasi
Julie Grove, of the RE Today Editorial Team, provides learning ideas from the Big Picture.
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