This second edition full colour textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the topics examined in Unit 3 of the AQA (B) specification for GCSE Religious Studies. The book gives students the content and guidance they need to be successful in the AQA GCSE Religious Studies exams, whether Short or Full Course. It comprehensively covers the relevant modules of the specifications and follows the same order. Where appropriate, the set topics are studied from the perspectives of the six world religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism. The book is divided into a number of sections, covering each of the set topics. Each section follows the same format and provides the information students need to tackle any questions they might be set. Quotations from sacred texts and other religious teachings are included, and students should try to learn or be able to paraphrase some of these. It is essential that they understand a variety of religious viewpoints on the set topics, whether or not they agree with them, so that they can express their own views knowledgeably and coherently.Each section concludes with a range of features and activities: Sample questions and answers, showing students the kind of question they might be asked in an exam and the standard of answer to aim at Further questions for students to use as exampractice and to help acquire good technique Class activities, to be completed individually in pairs or groups under the direction of a teacher, to add breadth to knowledge and depth to understanding Homework, where some of these tasks will need access to the internet A list of useful websites.