OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Religious Education is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case	19
Weathering the storm. catholic schools facing the Church’s crisis in the last decade in Chile	13
Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of interreligious dialogue: ethics of alterity in the age of religious plurality	10
Privileged and non-privileged agencies – education about, into and with social justice in religious education classrooms	10
Dialogues between Ivan and Smerdyakov after the murder of their father from The Brothers Karamazov : their educational implications	9
Depoliticisation of stigma: the drama series Skam (”shame”) as an instance of public religious education	9
Emotional responses of school members and stakeholders from a religious community to a curriculum reform	8
Equipping educators to teach religious literacy: lessons from a teacher education program in the American South	8
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation	7
Towards an integral vision of religious education	7
Rear-mirror view: representation of Islam and Muslims in the RE textbooks	7
Islamic religious education and state school policies in France and Senegal	7
Faith-informed character: the role of religion in university students’ processing and resolution of moral challenges	6
Shaped by the story: narrative theology, storytelling and Christian Religious Education	6
The model of religious education in today’s secular and multicultural societies – Post-Confessional Inclusivist Religious Education (PCIRE)	6
A reconstruction of the international standards of religious education of juveniles in correctional institutions	5
Reviewing the place of Humanism in religious education	5
“Minority within minority” or a “minority of two majorities”: religious education and the making of Christian identity in Israel	5
RE teachers and the shifting landscape of values education in England	5
Freedom of belief, the right to withdrawal and Christian religious education in Northern Ireland	5
Who studies Religious Education? Understanding young people’s perceptions of religion, religious identity and religious education in England	5
How could the Norwegian RE subject express the presence of human rights thinking in Islam?	4
Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated	4
Religious education before the ECtHR: the opt-out clause does not suffice anymore	4
Exploring ‘diversity’ and ‘pluralism’: a sociological analysis of religious education textbooks In the ‘Islamic Republic’ of Iran	4

What is the point of ministry among children, youth and families? Examination of aims and activities from different perspectives	4
An evaluation of the effectiveness of Reformed Christian schooling in terms of academic contingent self-worth: an American case in the late 1980s	4
Perceptions of science, religion and spirituality in high school students: an empirical approach	4
Listening to the voices of religious education professionals: the relationship between technology and religious education	3
An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent	3
Working towards improved collaboration: reviewing provision and support for Christian parents/carers	3
Rebuilding ministry in UK state schools: investigating how pandemic disruption may effect positive change	3
Faith in science, implicit religion and antipathy to religions: a study among Christian and non-religious students	3
Tensions between inclusion and change in worldview education: can Joe F. Kincheloe’s bricolage help teachers navigate them?	3
The role of Islamic education teachers in enhancing higher-order thinking: a systematic review	3
Activating reflexivity: supporting professional development for preservice teachers in religious education	3
Cultivating a just habitus through intercultural wisdom of women	3
Students’ critical awareness of the internet and social media use as resources for Islamic learning in Indonesian public senior high schools	3
Talaba-e-madaris and madrasas in India: a narrative research	3
The professional identity of elementary school rabbis in the national-religious education system in Israel	3
Factors affecting religious tolerance and prejudice in school context: a mixed method research synthesis	3
Little theologians: children, culture, and the making of theological meaning	3
Learning with(in) religious tradition. Navigating the existential in Islamic religious education	2
Values of the religion curriculum in Spanish compulsory secondary education	2
The impact of critical thinking dispositions on tolerance and encountering differences: a study of RE teacher candidates in Turkey	2
Has the English baccalaureate ‘killed off’ RE?	2
Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE	2
Decolonising religious education through the prism of affect theory: analytical perspectives for approaching Islamophobia in curriculum and pedagogy	2
Knowledge, authority, and Islamic education in the West: reconfiguring tradition	2
Sex education and religion - resistance and possibilities	2
Religious moderation in Islamic education as an approach to preventing sexual harassment: implementation analysis in Indonesian madrasahs	2
Re-imagining senior secondary religious education: evaluating the religion, meaning, and life curriculum	2
Meeting the majority religion. Majority church field trips and educational equality in Norwegian RE	2
The British Journal of Religious Education (BJRE) at 90	2
A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners	2
Placing religion virtually: combining textbooks with virtual student-produced 360-degree virtual tours of churches in teacher education for RE	2
Religious education: learning what from studying religions?	2
Humankind as the Image of God: a cognitive semantic application of Genesis 1:1–2:3 in the classroom	2
Teachers’ conceptualisations of religion as a concept and as a subject for teaching: a problematisation	2
Knowledge in a religion and worldviews approach in English schools	2
Leading learning for a recontextualising approach in religious education	2
Islamic Emancipation as alternative Maarifa in education: decoloniality as a holy mission	2
Integration of critical pedagogy in Islamic education: a case study of pre-service teacher training	2
Functions of crisis in religious education discourse since 1975. A critical corpus-assisted analysis	2
Research in and for religious education	2
Death in Qur’an courses for 4–6 year-olds: a critical analysis of teaching programmes and teacher’s books	1
Teachers’ perspectives on ethics education – expressed as opportunities and challenges	1
Maktab education : a community imperative and the making of Muslim ambassadors	1
Examining the role of Pakistan’s national curriculum textbook discourses on normalising the Taliban’s violence in the USA’s Post 9/11 war on terror in South Waziristan, Pakistan	1
Between astronomy and religion : dialogue in the Saudi primary science classroom	1
Is there a place for young children in the modern-day UK church? Investigating approaches to faith nurture in the early years	1
The making of Sikh student: Ethnographic study of a minority school in Delhi	1
Religion lesson in schools in Poland – the subject of dispute and the unused potential	1
Reimagining religious education: integrating ethnographic and anthropological perspectives	1
Teaching religious stories in lower primary school: a Norwegian case study of 8-year-old students’ perception of the Moses narratives	1

Who are we?	1
Critical Islamic educational leadership: investigating how Islamic pedagogic models shape leadership practices	1
The contribution of chaplaincy classes to the moral formation of future military leaders: an ethnographic study in Dutch military chaplaincy	1
RE in the Colombian context: addressing the gap between secular legislation and social religiosity?	1
Religion in a world-view neutral school. Challenges on the example of Poland	1
Truth as Aletheia in the Godly Play approach to religious education: a phenomenological reflection	1
The legacy of community cohesion: exploring the teacher agency of beginner RE teachers	1
Critique in Religious Education	1
Re-imagining the religious education teacher	1
National, international and supranational perspectives on religious education, law and the judiciary: past, present and future	1
Problems experienced by Christian religious education teachers in Indonesia: a hermeneutic phenomenological study	1
The variety of worldview profiles among Finnish upper secondary school students: a latent class analysis	1
European Court of Human Rights’ judgements and compulsory religious education in Turkey	1
Pedagogue’s fallacy and pedagogue’s parsimony	1
RE teachers and the challenges of digital didactics during the coronavirus pandemic in Poland	1
Editorial	1
Experiences of teachers in U.S. Catholic schools during the COVID-19 pandemic era	1
Teacher and student evaluations of a trial RE curriculum: implications for scale	1
Measuring student teachers’ beliefs regarding religion in schools: piloting and preliminary validation of two newly developed scales	1
Didactical model to promote perspective taking	1
The branding and perception of madrasahs on social media: an analysis of misinformation and public sentiment using social network analysis	1
Religious education in French private schools: Categories, conflations, and inequities	1
A secular Advent. waiting for Christmas in Swedish preschools	1
Which of the Bible stories do you best remember? The significance of selected Bible stories for early childhood education students	1
Enhancing learners’ motivation and engagement in religious education classes at elementary levels	1
Critique of religion and critical thinking in religious education	1
Conceptualising religion and worldviews for the school opportunities, challenges, and complexities of a transition from religious education in England and beyond	1
COVID-19 and religious education reimagined: discovering a reflective space through Hannah Arendt’s concept of thinking	1
‘To make more room for 21st century themes’: the secular dynamics and demise of Quebec’s ‘Ethics and Religious Culture’ curriculum	1
Jesus’ parables for and by ten-year-olds: applying blending theory in in-depth analyses of pupils’ RE texts, RE textbook passages, and teacher’s handbook passages in the context of Norwegian inclusive	1
New cultures of online and social-media-based religious and spiritual education for young adults: resilience, coping and wellness	1
A world of difference	1
Christian-Muslim dialogue: encounter and co-existence	1
Characteristics of a Josephite approach to education evident in the leadership practices of principals and their leadership teams	1