2u: Religion and Non-Religion

The religious dimension in human history

• the expression of the religious dimension in human history

• the significance of the religious dimension in human history

• the global distribution of the five major religious traditions

New religious expressions

• the rise of new religious expression and spiritualities 

• the influences on the growth of new religious expressions and spiritualities

Non-Religious Worldviews

• the human search for personal fulfilment through non-religious practices:

• Agnosticism

• Atheism

• Humanism

The Difference between Religious and Non-Religious Worldviews

• the response of ONE religious
  and ONE non-religious belief
  system to: 

• the concept of the transcendent

• the human person

• social responsibility