R.E.Dictionary

RAYMOND’S RELIGIOUS EDUCATION DICTIONARY THANK Dwight Raymond 1C YOU

About the Author Dwight Raymond is a student at the Clarendon College. He completed primary school by pass- ing his PEP examination and he’s now studying at Clarendon College. 12

Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of Religion is a social-cultural system of designat- a particular group of people, encompassing lan- ed behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, guage, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, arts. ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual ele- ments; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. 34

Religious Education is a subject taught at Supreme Beings are divinities whose nature primary and secondary levels that aims to reveals a unique quality of being—generally, develop children's understanding of the a transcendent spiritual power—in a cul- world's religions. Through religious educa- ture's religious system. Such divine beings tion, children will learn about different reli- figure in many different religious systems, gions and their traditions, practices and be- yet they manifest values and symbolic asso- liefs. Religious education also promotes ciations that display remarkable similarities. children's tolerance and mutual respect in a diverse society. 56