Is there anyone doing the AQA A2 RST3F paper? Religion and Contemporary Soc.

im doing rst3f, im so happy ive found someone whos actually doing it!!

what questions do you think are going to come up for each topic?

Ohmyy- yaay!

Well I'm doing topics 2 and 3 -

Challenges to religion, I think a question is most likely to come up on the nature of a secular society, only because it's the only question they have asked only once. Equally, there's a specimen question that's never been asked in this wording:

"Examine the effect of secularisation on religious cultures and communities within the UK" (30 marks)
"Religion is needed in a secular society" (20 marks)

For Spirituality chances are, they'll ask something to do with RERU, which I detest but I'm prepping paragraphs of points of their work. But I'm really confused about how to structure a question on RERU.

SAME!! but im still going to revise some of topic 1 as a back up.

i hope the effect of secularisation comes up rather than the nature of a secular society. What examples would you use for the nature of secular society or would you draw comparisons to USA and France which are already secular?

for RERU i would have a breif summary about alister hardy and why RERU was set up and the question 'have you ever been aware of, or influenced by a presence or power, whether you call it God or not, which is different from your everyday self?' Then i would go on to talk about the types of religious spirituality they look at. For my second paragraph i would look at the idea of determining whether or not the religious experiences shared are truthful and the chances that people may have hallucinated or exaggerated and then for my third paragraph i would talk about how william james argued the conditions of religious experience are psychological and pharmaceutical rather than cultural but such experiences can be seen as religious as there is the presence of a higher being. then i would conclude by summarising each point.

With an AO2 on RERU i would think it would be 'the work of RERU is ineffective' Asses this claim. but i think with a question on RERU for AO1 the AO2 is likely to be really open and it could be anything so its difficult to predict the AO2.

Im also confused about the scholars in topic 3, what scholars would be most suitable to use with a question on RERU?