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R12 World Faiths

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World Faiths Weekend

What is this Weekend all about?
Useful resources for World Faiths
The Student Spot
R12 Programme

Resources Addition Form
Contributions to this page

Welcome to the R12 World Faiths Weekend web page. This page is designed to provide useful resources relating to the spirituality sessions covered in R12 with WEMTC. If you have found useful resources or have questions you would like ask, please do contribute.

What is this Weekend all about?

This weekend, based at the United College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, combines encounter with members of non-Christian faith communities with theological reflection on ministry in the context of a multi-faith society.

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Useful resources for R12

Books

The following are core books for this weekend:

Chapman C Cross and Crescent IVP Leicester 1995
Cragg K Faith and Life Negotiate Canterbury Press Norwich 1994
Cragg K Troubled by Truth: Life Studies in Inter-faith Concern 1992
D'Costa Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered London Orbis 1990
Green A Jewish Spirituality 2 volumes SCM London 1985, 1988
Smart N The World's Religions: Old Traditions and Modern Transformations CUP Cambridge 1989

For more detailed bibliographies see our World Faiths Booklists.
Why not tell us of some books you have found useful? If the webmaster agrees we'll list them here.

R12 World Faiths Web Resources

You may find the following web sites helpful for discovering more about World Faiths. Material on the net has no quality control making tutors very wary - and rightly so! Nevertheless there is a growing amount of first class work on line. Treat with care and you'll find it very useful.

The Internet is not 100% reliable and documents move, disappear and change their names. If you find a link does not work, try again in an hour, a day, or a week. But do feel free to email us to report a link doesn't work. Don't forget to tell us the name of the link!

World Faiths

Buddhism

DMOZ Open Directory Project - Buddhism: The Open Directory Project is a free internet directory maintained by volunteers
Virtul Religion Index- Buddhism: M Smith of Rutger's University' Virtual Religion Index of links
Facets of Religion- Buddhism: Maintained by Armin Muller at edunet this is another source of links - with more general introductory links.

Hinduism

DMOZ Open Directory Project - Hinduism: The Open Directory Project is a free internet directory maintained by volunteers
Virtul Religion Index- Hindu Studies: M Smith of Rutger's University' Virtual Religion Index of links
Facets of Religion- Hinduism: Maintained by Armin Muller at edunet this is another source of links - with more general introductory links.

Islam

DMOZ Open Directory Project - Islam: The Open Directory Project is a free internet directory maintained by volunteers
Virtul Religion Index- Islam: M Smith of Rutger's University' Virtual Religion Index of links
Facets of Religion- Islam: Maintained by Armin Muller at edunet this is another source of links - with more general introductory links.

Judaism

DMOZ Open Directory Project - Judaism: The Open Directory Project is a free internet directory maintained by volunteers
Virtul Religion Index- Judaic Studies: M Smith of Rutger's University' Virtual Religion Index of links
Facets of Religion- Hinduism: Maintained by Armin Muller at edunet this is another source of links - with more general introductory links.

See the general religion links as a starting point for your own searching

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The Student Spot

This spot is for contributions from those who are doing or have done R12. It needs your contributions - books that have been helpful, questions you would like answered, adverts for things related to the module etc. Content is monitored by the webmaster with reference to the tutors and class reps if necessary. Click here to submit something for the page.

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A sample R12 Weekend Programme

Please note that programmes are constantly being revised and the actual content of your weekend may look rather different.

Preparation

Programme

Friday
6:00 Arrive
6:30 Supper
7:30 Welcome and Introduction
7:30 Encounter and Witness
9:15 Evening Worship

Saturday
8:00 Morning Worship
8:30 Breakfast
8:30 Breakfast
9:15 The Muslim World
10:45 Coffee
11:15 the Holy Spirit in a World of many Faiths
13:05 Lunch
2:00 The parish context: St John's Church, Sparkhill
4:00 Mosque Visit
6:30 Supper
7:30 Free Evening
9:00 Evening Worship

Sunday
8:30 Eucharist
9:30 Breakfast
10:15 Reflection on Visits and Recommended Resources
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Pauline epistles
1:05 Lunch

Resources Addition Form

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Contribution to this Page

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The Full Module Description for R12 World Faiths

Code and title

R12 World Faiths Weekend

Brief description

Level and Credits

Contributes to F101 Ministerial Formation or V101 Vocational Discernment

Status

Core for Ordinands and Methodist Foundation Students

Type

Standard

Prerequisites

Nil

Restrictions

Open to Ordinands and Methodist Foundation Students only

Content summary

This weekend will cover:

An introduction to inter-faith relations in Britain.
Resources for learning about non-Christian faiths.
A guided visit to at least one faith community and its place of worship
Reflecting theologically on ministry and mission in a multi-faith society.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this weekend students should:

a) Knowledge and Understanding

Be aware of key issues in relationships between faith communities.
Have encountered at least one faith community and learned something of its faith and practice.
Be able to access and learn from resources on non-Christian faiths.

b) Skills

Have developed skills in respectful encounter with people of other faiths.
Have begun to develop skills of appropriate inter-faith conversation.
Have applied skills of theological reflection to the experience of inter-faith encounter.

Teaching and learning

10 hours
7 hours class contact
3 hours personal study (prior reading, self reflection, discussion in Formation Groups and with Tutor)

Assessment

A self-reflection exercise in prescribed format

Indicative resources

Chapman C Cross and Crescent IVP Leicester 1995
Cragg K Faith and Life Negotiate Canterbury Press Norwich 1994
Cragg K Troubled by Truth: Life Studies in Inter-faith Concern 1992
D'Costa Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered London Orbis 1990
Green A Jewish Spirituality 2 volumes SCM London 1985, 1988
Smart N The World's Religions: Old Traditions and Modern Transformations CUP Cambridge 1989

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