A common vision and shared sense of

belonging for ALL groups in society.

Community Cohesion

To use media clips and independent

study to understand how and why

religious people promote community

cohesion.

OUTCOMES…Grades C

You will be able to describe four ways in which religions

help promote community cohesion

Grade B You will be able to explain how

the things that religious groups do help promote

community cohesion.

Grade A-A* You will be able to evaluate

whether you believe community cohesion will ever

be achieved.

Your GOALS for the end of

this lesson are…

Why is community cohesion so important?

Watch the following clip. Use this and examples from previous lessons to make a list of the reasons WHY

community cohesion is so important!

Without it...• Different groups work against and

not with each other which causes tension, violence, discrimination and even hate crimes.

• Different groups live ‘parallel lives’ and do not mix with each other - E.g. The riots in Oldham and Burnley.

• Violence becomes a way of life - E.g. in countries like Iraq which has no community cohesion.

WHY COMMUNITY COHESION IS SO IMPORTANT...

What is the Government doing/done to promote community cohesion?

Use the picture clues to help you remember...

RE-CAP…

Giving money to groups working for community cohesion.

Community Cohesion

Schools have to promote community cohesion by law.

Race Relations Act – illegal to discriminate against people based on race, colour etc

Test in Britishness – All immigrants wanting UK citizenship must take a test to promote understanding and preserve

culture.

What are religions doing to promote

community cohesion?...

Using the information

around the room complete your

sheet in as much detail as possible.

1) Some religious people are working to find out what different religions have in common with each other and then build on it. E.g Christianity, Judaism and Islam all believe in the prophets Abraham and Moses.

2) Some religious groups are working to help interfaith marriages.

Protestant churches and liberal Jewish synagogues have developed wedding services for mixed faith couples.

Those in mixed marriages have developed the website www.interfaithmarriage.org.uk to offer help and advice to other couples.

3) Some liberal religious groups encourage mixed couples to raise their children in both faiths. The children can then choose when they are older.

4) Different religious groups are joining together to explore ways of helping community cohesion.

The Inter Faith Network was set up in 1987 to promote good relations between people of

different faiths.

See www.interfaith.org.uk.

How do these things help promote

community cohesion?...

Using your common sense

explain how each of those examples

might help promote

community cohesion.

Watch the following clip...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_4480000/newsid_4485000/4485054.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&bbcws=1

Unfortunately racially motivated crimes are still carried out in

society and over the last few years numbers of these have increased.

Many people believe ‘achieving community cohesion is impossible’.

Do you agree?

CAN COMMUNITY COHESION EVER BE FULLY ACHIEVED?

Use the clues and your memory (that's right try to remember previous lessons) to give 3 reason why

Christians and Muslims promote community cohesion...

WHY DO RELIGIOUS PEOPLE PROMOTE COMMUNITY COHESION?

Christians… Muslims…

PLENARY… Fill in the blanks from these important quotes...

God created man in his own ___________, male and female he created them.

Everyone is as equal as the teeth of a ________.God does not show __________.

‘O humanity, I am the messenger of God to _____________.

There is no __________ for an Arab over an non-Arab, neither for a white man over a

black man...’ Love thy _____________.