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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Privileged and non-privileged agencies – education about, into and with social justice in religious education classrooms	14
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case	10
Crisis, controversy and the future of religious education	10
Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of interreligious dialogue: ethics of alterity in the age of religious plurality	9
Depoliticisation of stigma: the drama series Skam (”shame”) as an instance of public religious education	8
Weathering the storm. catholic schools facing the Church’s crisis in the last decade in Chile	8
Dialogues between Ivan and Smerdyakov after the murder of their father from The Brothers Karamazov : their educational implications	6
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation	6
Rear-mirror view: representation of Islam and Muslims in the RE textbooks	5
The model of religious education in today’s secular and multicultural societies – Post-Confessional Inclusivist Religious Education (PCIRE)	5
Religious education before the ECtHR: the opt-out clause does not suffice anymore	4
Reviewing the place of Humanism in religious education	4
A reconstruction of the international standards of religious education of juveniles in correctional institutions	4
“Minority within minority” or a “minority of two majorities”: religious education and the making of Christian identity in Israel	4
Shaped by the story: narrative theology, storytelling and Christian Religious Education	4
Islamic religious education and state school policies in France and Senegal	4
Tensions between inclusion and change in worldview education: can Joe F. Kincheloe’s bricolage help teachers navigate them?	3
Exploring ‘diversity’ and ‘pluralism’: a sociological analysis of religious education textbooks In the ‘Islamic Republic’ of Iran	3
Talaba-e-madaris and madrasas in India: a narrative research	3
Little theologians: children, culture, and the making of theological meaning	3
Cultivating a just habitus through intercultural wisdom of women	3
RE teachers and the shifting landscape of values education in England	3
Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated	3
Working towards improved collaboration: reviewing provision and support for Christian parents/carers	3
An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent	3

Faith in science, implicit religion and antipathy to religions: a study among Christian and non-religious students	3
How could the Norwegian RE subject express the presence of human rights thinking in Islam?	3
Perceptions of science, religion and spirituality in high school students: an empirical approach	3
Students’ critical awareness of the internet and social media use as resources for Islamic learning in Indonesian public senior high schools	3
The role of Islamic education teachers in enhancing higher-order thinking: a systematic review	3
Islamic Emancipation as alternative Maarifa in education: decoloniality as a holy mission	2
Has the English baccalaureate ‘killed off’ RE?	2
Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE	2
Values of the religion curriculum in Spanish compulsory secondary education	2
The professional identity of elementary school rabbis in the national-religious education system in Israel	2
Teachers’ conceptualisations of religion as a concept and as a subject for teaching: a problematisation	2
Leading learning for a recontextualising approach in religious education	2
Quantified secularism? Counting religious conflicts in French state schools since the 1980s	2
Sex education and religion - resistance and possibilities	2
Factors affecting religious tolerance and prejudice in school context: a mixed method research synthesis	2
Rebuilding ministry in UK state schools: investigating how pandemic disruption may effect positive change	2
Knowledge in a religion and worldviews approach in English schools	2
Meeting the majority religion. Majority church field trips and educational equality in Norwegian RE	2
A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners	2
The ‘world religions paradigm’ as the organising principle of didactic action—a case study	2
The professionalisation of Islamic religious education teachers	2
On the Formulation of a Standardised Evangelical Apologetics Youth Curriculum	2
Is there a place for young children in the modern-day UK church? Investigating approaches to faith nurture in the early years	1
Research in and for religious education	1
Humankind as the Image of God: a cognitive semantic application of genesis 1:1–2:3 in the classroom	1
Decolonising religious education through the prism of affect theory: analytical perspectives for approaching Islamophobia in curriculum and pedagogy	1
Between astronomy and religion : dialogue in the Saudi primary science classroom	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
Religion in a world-view neutral school. Challenges on the example of Poland	1
A secular Advent. waiting for Christmas in Swedish preschools	1
The making of Sikh student: Ethnographic study of a minority school in Delhi	1
Solitude and selflessness and the cultivation of humanity in liberal and religious education	1
The variety of worldview profiles among Finnish upper secondary school students: a latent class analysis	1
Religious education: learning what from studying religions?	1
Problems experienced by Christian religious education teachers in Indonesia: a hermeneutic phenomenological study	1
Critique of religion and critical thinking in religious education	1
Religion lesson in schools in Poland – the subject of dispute and the unused potential	1
Teachers’ perspectives on ethics education – expressed as opportunities and challenges	1
Enhancing learners’ motivation and engagement in religious education classes at elementary levels	1
European Court of Human Rights’ judgements and compulsory religious education in Turkey	1
COVID-19 and religious education reimagined: discovering a reflective space through Hannah Arendt’s concept of thinking	1
Functions of crisis in religious education discourse since 1975. A critical corpus-assisted analysis	1
National, international and supranational perspectives on religious education, law and the judiciary: past, present and future	1
Re-imagining the religious education teacher	1
Reimagining religious education: integrating ethnographic and anthropological perspectives	1
Characteristics of a Josephite approach to education evident in the leadership practices of principals and their leadership teams	1
Measuring student teachers’ beliefs regarding religion in schools: piloting and preliminary validation of two newly developed scales	1
The legacy of community cohesion: exploring the teacher agency of beginner RE teachers	1
Conceptualising religion and worldviews for the school opportunities, challenges, and complexities of a transition from religious education in England and beyond	1