Abstract

Paradigm changes and transition from the era of tradition to modernity have led to rapid and significant changes in the beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviors and religious practices of young people. Ignoring these changes and insisting on the traditional methods of religious education not only leads to the inefficiency of religious education, but may also lead to the opposite result. The purpose of this research is to know the characteristics and changes in the religious practice of the new generation and then examine the requirements of effective religious education of according to those characteristics. The research method is synthesis research and then suggesting implications for an effective religious education for the new generation. Based on the findings, 9 characteristics were found about the religiosity of the young generation: the strengthening of the internal, mental and emotional dimensions of religiosity and the dimming of the practical and ritual aspects, self-referential religiosity based on individual wisdom, non-binding religiosity, dissonance, eclecticism and collage-like religiosity, diversity-oriented, hedonistic religiosity, reduction of tendency towards formal aspects of religiosity, moral-oriented, pluralistic religiosity, and tendency towards emerging spirituality. Then, according to these features, considerations were raised as follows: Adopting the approach of religious education as extracurricular, combined, enjoyable, voluntary and relying on common values, modifying the content (self-knowledge, creating a sense of need for religion, Pathology of false spiritualities, deepening of theology, development and deepening of religious foundations, flow analysis and criticism of the foundations of modernism and postmodernism, content, educational resources, teaching method, communication method and evaluation method.