World Faiths
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- Complete one of these activities:
- Visit a place of worship for a faith other than your own. Find out the differences between this building and your own place of worship.
- Attend a religious festival for a faith different to your own.
- Complete one of these activities:
- Learn about the life of a founder or a prominent leader of a faith. You could learn about people like Prince Siddhartha Gautama, Mohammed, Jesus Christ or a saint such as St George.
- Find out about someone whose faith has had a significant impact upon his or her life.
- Read a sacred text from another faith. Show how it compares it with a similar teaching from your own faith.
- Find out how following the teachings of another faith affects an individual's daily life. This could include food or dietary laws, rituals,
prayers or religious observances.
Top tips
There are lots of places of worship young people could visit for number 1, including a Gurdwara, Temple, Mosque, Church or Synagogue.
The 'major world faiths' are widely accepted to include Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Sikhism. However, this is not an exhaustive list and a broader list of more religions can be found via BBC Religion pages, which also includes numerically smaller groups, such as Shinto and Taoism.
A useful interactive resource to support young people to explore world faiths is BBC Bitesize, there are wealth of videos and animations which explore specific elements of different religions eg. What is it like to go Hajj, or what happens at Passover specifically aimed at young people.
