The symposium takes the terror attacks of 22. July 2011 in Norway as a starting point for reflection on the position of values and human rights in religious education. Actions of terror directed against democracy and diverse societies are a challenge to education as a democratic and critical enterprise. It is also a challenge to understand, reflect on and work with experiences of terror and the collective memory linked to such events. The papers in this symposium approach the issue from different angles and in different ways, but a common question asked in this symposium is how religious education can and should respond to acts of terror directed against basic societal and cultural values and human rights.