Year 7

1. What are the dimensions of this
knife?

2. Smart’s Seven Dimensions
LO:
I will understand the seven dimensions of religion.
I will be able to identify them in Christianity.

3. I will understand the seven dimensions of religion.
I will be able to identify them in Christianity.
• Turn to your partner and try to
describe in physical terms.

4. • Now try to describe
them in non-physical
terms.

5. • Which was easier?
• Why?

6. • In a way, religion is
like a person. A
person has many
different parts to
them and each
part has a
different purpose.

7. Smart’s Seven Dimensions
• A Scottish Educator
named Ninian Smart
tried to identify
seven things that all
the world’s religions
had in common.
• He found seven things
that all religions have
or do and he called
these the SEVEN
DIMENSIONS.

8. • The Seven Dimensions are stuck up to on the wall.
• We are going to walk around the room in silence and look at
the seven dimensions as if we were in an art gallery.
• How do we conduct ourselves when we go to an art gallery?

9. TASK
• Your task is to find a
partner and to fill in the
worksheet.
• Can you match one of the
Christian keywords on the
sheet with the
corresponding dimension?
• Stretch: can you add your
own Christian keywords to
the dimensions?

10. MNEMONIC
• Finish off by creating a mnemonic to help
you remember the seven dimensions:
• Beliefs Rules Feelings Social Material Rituals Stories
• Example: a mnemonic to remember the
names of the members of One Direction
might be:
Nobody Loves Hairy Zebra Legs