GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE CAMBRIDGE IGCSE: BELIEF SYSTEMS. Definitions, questions for the research project, global/international perspectives, local/national perspectives, family/personal perspectives, useful websites.

1. BELIEF SYSTEMS
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
CAMBRIDGE IGCSE P2

2. BELIEF SYSTEMS
• faith based on a series of beliefs but not formalised into a religion
• coherent set of beliefs prevalent in a community or society
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/belief-system
• belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be
the case, with or without there being empirical evidence to prove
that something is the case with factual certainty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief

3. QUESTIONS FOR YOUR
RESEARCH PROJECT

4. GLOBAL/INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
• Why do people have different belief systems?
• What are some of the different belief systems held in different
countries?
• How do belief systems affect a country’s political system and culture?

5. LOCAL/NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
• What are the different belief systems in my country and in my
community?
• How do these belief systems affect the nature of the local
community?
• Is respect shown for other people’s beliefs?

6. FAMILY/PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES
• What differing beliefs do my friends and family have?
• How do these beliefs affect their behaviour and how other people
view them?
• Have my own beliefs changed over time?

7. WEBSITES
www.amnesty.org.uk - Amnesty International’s website
www.un.org - United Nations website
www.religioustolerance.org/var_rel.htm - Information on religious
tolerance and many belief systems
www.reep.org/resources/weblinks.php - Website provides background
information on the core beliefs of the world ... and provides links to
resources for more than 20 world religions and belief systems