The last few decades are marked by evaluating the identity of religious education as a learning subject in the context of diverse contemporary challenges. Religious pluralism, atheistic and agnostic perspectives, artificial intelligence, and the rapid development of information technologies create the conditions in which traditional practices of religious education are searching for innovative solutions.

‘Crossroads’ is a metaphor that reveals the diversity of these research directions. What does religion mean in terms of religious education itself? There is still a debate about the relationship between the concepts – religion and worldview and their link to the educational content in general. What is the target audience for religious education – pre-school children, primary and secondary school learners, university students, and secular society in general? Generational reciprocity and the search for answers to existential questions lead to the characteristics of generations. How can a digital generation learn religious education? How can information technologies be employed in the learning process? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer the future, it is our present. Thus, it creates conditions for discussing the relationship between a human being and AI in the context of faith, religion and worldviews. What innovations are already available in didactics? Didactics is one of the scientific disciplines, which in recent decades has similarly sought for answers to the question of how to teach and learn. For religious education didacts it is important to search for the meeting points and solutions of various learning subjects in order to respond jointly to the new approaches of the educational content design in National Standards.

Searching for answers to these topical questions, the conference will focus on four key topics, keeping in mind that all of them might be connected with the reflections on the challenges created by Covid-19 and the pandemic:

• Searching for the renewal of religious education identity (post-secularism, inclusive religious education, developments of National Curriculums);
• Digital generations and religious education (y, z, α generations, digital childhood);
• Teacher religious education: challenges and opportunities for growth;
• Didactic innovations in religious education (innovative approaches to teaching and learning).

 Previous conferences: 

Nordic conference of religious education 2019: https://www.ntnu.edu/ncre2019

Nordic conference of religious education 2017: https://isa-rc22.org/cfp-14th-nordic-conference-on-religious-education/

Nordic conference of religious education 2015: https://sisu.ut.ee/ncre2015