Historian Simon Schama has a new TV show which started yesterday, The Story of the Jews, which should be a great watch for students of A-level History or Religious Studies.
Last night's episode looked at the beginnings of the Jewish story, and the emergence, around 3,000 years ago, of the Jews as a distinctive people. You can watch it here on BBC iPlayer. Schama also briefly discusses Freud (who we look at in our unit of work on Psychology and Religion).
One of my students has her own blog, and has written a post here on the perils of trying to make sense of A Level RS.
It definitely wins a prize for the most original way of resolving the conflict between Freudian and Jungian accounts of religion:
If I could go back in time, I would make Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung have a massive cuddle. I would give them both a bottle of Freud’s favourite drink, vodka, and hope that they’d get so wasted that they would fall into each other’s arms and decide that they agree with each other on anything. I dream of a day that this is possible, because if it happened, then the AS RE course would be so much easier.
I've uploaded a couple of word games you can use to build and revise your vocabulary for
the Psychology and Religion topic of the AQA A Level in Religious Studies.
You can download the games from here, or if you have a TES account, from here.
