This study aims to explore the conceptual religious character in various points of view; Islam, psychology, sociology, and communication, and their implications for the Islamic Religious Education (IRE) learning model. A qualitative approach with a literature study method, both from books, articles, and the web that displays data is used to dissect the focus of this research. The results show that conceptually, religious character is multi-dimensional including belief, obedience in worship, and is manifested in a pious person, both as an individual and social. Religious character is a religious commitment that involves psychological elements and sociologically influences social behavior by displaying good interpersonal relationships, as well as in communicating images with religious expressions. This study has implications that to build religious character in relation to interpersonal relationships, an appropriate model is needed by considering the potential values and developmental tasks of students.

This study aims to explore and analyze the experience of PAI teachers in carrying out learning process during the pandemic which is focused on three things; emotional regulation in response to school closure policies, their efforts to identify student learning facilities, and the learning strategies they choose. A qualitative approach with the phenomenological method was chosen to obtain information on the learning experiences of Islamic Religious education teachers of six Junior High Schools in Bandung, West Java, which were explored through semi-structured interviews and documentation. The results of the study found that there was psychological involvement and varied responses of the subject to school closure policies. In such conditions, they display self-efficacy to ensure the continuity of learning by carefully identifying student learning facilities and communicating effectively. The process has an impact on the implementation of their chose, with three strategies of Distance Learning (PJJ) from home, namely online; synchronous-asynchronous and outside the network with the module system. This study concludes that teacher self-efficacy plays a very important role in responding to and choosing appropriate learning strategies and technologies in various circumstances to ensure the continuity of learning, and at the same time recommending the improvement of these essential competencies to the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia on a regular and programmed basis.