Religious Diversity
Religious festivals, rituals and customs vary from country to country, culture-to-culture and individual-to-individual. This resource explores religious diversity by examining a wide variety of cultures and practices.
Religious festivals, rituals and customs vary from country to country, culture-to-culture and individual-to-individual. This resource explores religious diversity by examining a wide variety of cultures and practices.
Light is a symbol of goodness in many cultures, and fire an important part of many customs around the world. Light and fire are important elements of celebrations all over the world, eg. birthdays are often celebrated by lighting a candle for every year of the person’s age.
According to Mohandas K Gandhi, “If we are to respect others’ religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of world’s religions is a sacred duty”.
This resource explores the six main world religions.
Fire is particularly associated with pagan times when transitional moments of spring and autumn were always celebrated with fire rituals. Pupils will explore cultural traditions that use fire.
Games are a great way to make learning fun as well as enabling pupils to develop important skills such as co-operation, respect and leadership. Pupils will explore the right to play. They will be encouraged to share their favorite indoor games as well as learning some new ones!
The many cultural celebrations taking place around Ireland present an opportunity to explore and raise awareness of the home culture of the children in our classrooms and of many children around the world.