OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of interreligious dialogue: ethics of alterity in the age of religious plurality	12
Weathering the storm. catholic schools facing the Church’s crisis in the last decade in Chile	10
Struggling for relevance: exploring editors’ perceived importance and value of religious education in school	7
Knowledge in a religion and worldviews approach in English schools	7
Teachers’ conceptualisations of religion as a concept and as a subject for teaching: a problematisation	7
Location, space and place in religious education	6
The legal framework for religious education in Norway - towards a Kantian balance between rights of state and rights of the citizen	6
Crisis, controversy and the future of religious education	5
Innovating Christian education research: Multidisciplinary perspectives	5
The legacy of community cohesion: exploring the teacher agency of beginner RE teachers	4
Dialogues between Ivan and Smerdyakov after the murder of their father from The Brothers Karamazov : their educational implications	4
Religion lesson in schools in Poland – the subject of dispute and the unused potential	4
On the Formulation of a Standardised Evangelical Apologetics Youth Curriculum	4
Hardened hearts and cries for freedom: interpreting biblical narratives in a pandemic	4
The ‘world religions paradigm’ as the organising principle of didactic action—a case study	3
Religion, church, national identity, and the solidarity movement in school history textbooks in Poland	3
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	3
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case	3
Collaborative, child-led philosophical inquiry in Religious and Moral Education	3
Teachers’ perspectives on ethics education – expressed as opportunities and challenges	3
Rebuilding ministry in UK state schools: investigating how pandemic disruption may effect positive change	3
Characteristics of a Josephite approach to education evident in the leadership practices of principals and their leadership teams	3
Religion in a world-view neutral school. Challenges on the example of Poland	3
Gender constructions in Austrian RE textbooks – a comparative linguistic textbook analysis	2
Genders, sexualities and Religious Education	2

Between belief and disbelief, between religion and secularity: introducing non-doxasticism and semi-secularity in worldview education	2
Values of the religion curriculum in Spanish compulsory secondary education	2
Reimagining religious education: integrating ethnographic and anthropological perspectives	2
Privileged and non-privileged agencies – education about, into and with social justice in religious education classrooms	2
Genders, sexualities, and Catholic schools: towards a theological anthropology of adolescent flourishing	2
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation	2
The role of religion in civic engagement of young people from diverse cultures in Hong Kong	2
Measuring student teachers’ beliefs regarding religion in schools: piloting and preliminary validation of two newly developed scales	2
Islamic Emancipation as alternative Maarifa in education: decoloniality as a holy mission	2
A secular Advent. waiting for Christmas in Swedish preschools	2
Re-imagining the religious education teacher	2
Depoliticisation of stigma: the drama series Skam (”shame”) as an instance of public religious education	2
Simulation-based learning for Rabbi-teachers dealing with conflicts in education	2
Religious and moral education in Scottish non-denominational primary schools: charting curriculum change through school handbooks	2
Impact of action research in Norwegian religious education	2
Releasing financial pressure through released time religious education: the fiscal impact of one released time programme on a state’s funding for public education	2
Religious education from a critical realist perspective: sensus fidei and critical thinking	1
Teachers’ job satisfaction: religious and secular schools in Israel	1
Rear-mirror view: representation of Islam and Muslims in the RE textbooks	1
Didactical model to promote perspective taking	1
Religious tolerance in Saudi Arabia’s middle school Islamic studies	1
Antecedents of faith integration self-efficacy in PreK-12 Mennonite schools in North America	1
Into the deep: a quantitative analysis of teacher ratings of the development and implementation of a trial religious education curriculum	1
Religious education and culture in Zambia	1
Moving my library to an indigenous village: religious diversity in Mexican intercultural education	1
Education for Buddhist Modernism: Buddhicised education and reform in Hong Kong schools	1
Religion, research and the REF-UoA23 education: a thematic investigation	1
Editorial: teacher agency, autonomy and religious education	1
‘To make more room for 21st century themes’: the secular dynamics and demise of Quebec’s ‘Ethics and Religious Culture’ curriculum	1
Blending technology into the teaching of religious and national values in federal government colleges in Nigeria	1
The model of religious education in today’s secular and multicultural societies – Post-Confessional Inclusivist Religious Education (PCIRE)	1
Islamic religious education and state school policies in France and Senegal	1
Leading learning for a recontextualising approach in religious education	1
Teaching religious stories in lower primary school: a Norwegian case study of 8-year-old students’ perception of the Moses narratives	1
Developing intercultural competences of Polish religion teachers in the context of refugees from Ukraine: in theory and practice	1
Country report: Religious education in Malaysia	1
Meeting the majority religion. Majority church field trips and educational equality in Norwegian RE	1
Design of Islamic Religious Education: Purposes, alignment of curriculum components and contexts	1
Hair-cutting as a form of religious discrimination: evaluating the school code of conduct in the case of Nazareth Baptist Church learners	1