Religious Studies A Level Reading List

Brief Introductory Reading: Law, S. The Philosophy Files, Orion 2002; The Outer Limits, Orion 2003; The Philosophy Gym, Hodder Headline 2003 Nagel, T. What Does It All Mean? OUP 1987 (reprinted 2004) Warburton, N. Philosophy: The Basics (5th ed.), Routledge 2012

Philosophy: Gaarder, J. Sophie’s World, London: Phoenix House 1995 Davies, B. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, OUP 1993 Hansel, N. The Sage Train, Matador 2016Vardy, P. The Puzzle of God, Collins 1999; God Matters, SCM Press 2013

Ethics: Norman, R. The Moral Philosophers, OUP 1998 Vardy, P. The Puzzle of Ethics, Collins 1999; Ethics Matters, SCM Press 2012

Religious Thought: McGrath, A. Christianity: An Introduction, Blackwell Publishing 2015 Vardy, P. The Puzzle of Christianity, Collins 2016

Online resources from and recommended by the RS DepartmentThe RS Department has a twitter account to which we post relevant articles or links most days.https://twitter.com/RSPhil_kedst

We also run a departmental blog called “Russell’s Teapot” (see if you can find out why)It’s at https://kedstrs.wordpress.com This post give you whole range of viewing and listening for the summer

https://kedstrs.wordpress.com/2020/03/28/recommended-viewing-and-listening-in-rs/

We strongly recommend the ‘Religion for Breakfast’ YouTube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/user/ReligionForBreakfast

Resources from other RS departmentsThe PRE Department at Lychett Minster school study our course and share some great resources. They have a YouTube channel with a playlist for each A Level Theme.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLpS93bCGErJrO7ZlXbemeQ/playlists and a website called Philosophy Monster https://philosophymonster.weebly.com/

Course Textbooks and Revision Guides We have class copies of the course textbooks and some copies of each revision guide so there is no expectation that students buy their own copies. However, if you’d like a copy of the course texts, or the exam board approved revision guides they can be purchased here.

Illuminate Textbooks for Eduqas course 5 in total. 2 books for complete Year 12 content, 3 books for Year 13

Illuminate Revision Guides for Eduqas course Currently 5 in total. Separate books for each paper and for each year of the course

Hodder Revision Notes for Eduqas course3 in total, one for each paper.