SLE

Question 1

what is a significant life experience

Answer 1

• intense dramatic powerful event
• challenge your beliefs
• can give you meaning or purpose in life
• can strengthen or weaken beliefs

Question 2

belief

Answer 2

Ideas
Ideology
Help understand meaning
Based on teachings of the religion - educated by leaders or family

Question 3

faith

Answer 3

An acceptance of religious beliefs
Complete trust
Complete commitment
Total devotion
Conscious choice

Question 4

adherent to

Answer 4

• Beliefs are lived out in a person’s life

- Public display of acceptance of those religious beliefs

Question 5

understanding of

Answer 5

Little or no understanding right through to a highly academic analysis of the subtlety of beliefs

Question 6

engagement with

Answer 6

• Represents the level of commitment or devotion to the religious beliefs
• Participating in the regular rituals
• Wearing religious symbols, studying torah

Question 7

SLE - B

Answer 7

• weaken beliefs
• can cause confusion (doubt)
• stronger (confirm beliefs, remove doubts)
• reinterpretation (broadened, open up, new understanding)

Question 8

B - SLE

Answer 8

• interpret SLE (explain, give insight, make sense)
• guide (direction, develop identity)
• cope (source of comfort, have hope)
• find the strength (new possibilities, rebuild life)