OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Religious Education is 2. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case	16
Privileged and non-privileged agencies – education about, into and with social justice in religious education classrooms	12
Weathering the storm. catholic schools facing the Church’s crisis in the last decade in Chile	10
Depoliticisation of stigma: the drama series Skam (”shame”) as an instance of public religious education	9
Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of interreligious dialogue: ethics of alterity in the age of religious plurality	8
Dialogues between Ivan and Smerdyakov after the murder of their father from The Brothers Karamazov : their educational implications	7
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation	7
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
Towards an integral vision of religious education	6
Rear-mirror view: representation of Islam and Muslims in the RE textbooks	6
Islamic religious education and state school policies in France and Senegal	6
Reviewing the place of Humanism in religious education	5
Faith-informed character: the role of religion in university students’ processing and resolution of moral challenges	5
Religious education before the ECtHR: the opt-out clause does not suffice anymore	5
Freedom of belief, the right to withdrawal and Christian religious education in Northern Ireland	5
Perceptions of science, religion and spirituality in high school students: an empirical approach	4
Tensions between inclusion and change in worldview education: can Joe F. Kincheloe’s bricolage help teachers navigate them?	4
“Minority within minority” or a “minority of two majorities”: religious education and the making of Christian identity in Israel	4
How could the Norwegian RE subject express the presence of human rights thinking in Islam?	4
Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated	4
What is the point of ministry among children, youth and families? Examination of aims and activities from different perspectives	4
RE teachers and the shifting landscape of values education in England	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
Exploring ‘diversity’ and ‘pluralism’: a sociological analysis of religious education textbooks In the ‘Islamic Republic’ of Iran	4

A reconstruction of the international standards of religious education of juveniles in correctional institutions	4
Who studies Religious Education? Understanding young people’s perceptions of religion, religious identity and religious education in England	4
Talaba-e-madaris and madrasas in India: a narrative research	3
Students’ critical awareness of the internet and social media use as resources for Islamic learning in Indonesian public senior high schools	3
Cultivating a just habitus through intercultural wisdom of women	3
Activating reflexivity: supporting professional development for preservice teachers in religious education	3
Listening to the voices of religious education professionals: the relationship between technology and religious education	3
Little theologians: children, culture, and the making of theological meaning	3
Working towards improved collaboration: reviewing provision and support for Christian parents/carers	3
The professional identity of elementary school rabbis in the national-religious education system in Israel	3
Faith in science, implicit religion and antipathy to religions: a study among Christian and non-religious students	3
An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent	3
The role of Islamic education teachers in enhancing higher-order thinking: a systematic review	3
The professionalisation of Islamic religious education teachers	2
Values of the religion curriculum in Spanish compulsory secondary education	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
Sex education and religion - resistance and possibilities	2
Re-imagining senior secondary religious education: evaluating the religion, meaning, and life curriculum	2
Rebuilding ministry in UK state schools: investigating how pandemic disruption may effect positive change	2
The ‘world religions paradigm’ as the organising principle of didactic action—a case study	2
Has the English baccalaureate ‘killed off’ RE?	2
Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE	2
Learning with(in) religious tradition. Navigating the existential in Islamic religious education	2
Factors affecting religious tolerance and prejudice in school context: a mixed method research synthesis	2
Teachers’ conceptualisations of religion as a concept and as a subject for teaching: a problematisation	2
Islamic Emancipation as alternative Maarifa in education: decoloniality as a holy mission	2
Leading learning for a recontextualising approach in religious education	2
A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners	2
The impact of critical thinking dispositions on tolerance and encountering differences: a study of RE teacher candidates in Turkey	2