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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Beliefs & Values-Studies in Religion & 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Will my child have their own faith?’ Exploring the impact of parental beliefs on childhood faith nurture	12
Religious imaginations: religious literacy as the reading of signs	10
Forgiveness and its value from the perspective of educational relationship	9
More intercultural sensitivity, less cyberbullying: the role of religious education among high-school students	9
Love for Allah and love for self: exploring the connection between religious affect and self-esteem among Muslim adolescents in England	8
‘The beauty of the place and the beauty of the liturgy’: exploring the mission and ministry of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin	8
The social value of music during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the benefits of online music participation for social capital, education, belonging and wellbeing	7
Educational rationality and religious education in Polish public schools	7
Accessing visitor perception of an immersive cathedral experience: applying the Jungian lenses of sensing and intuition and Bailey’s theory of implicit religion	7
Similar rights, different paths: the organisation of RE in the Flemish and French communities in Belgium	6
Exploring the entanglements of contemporary spirituality, Catholicism, and environmentalism in South Tyrol, Italy: an ethnographic approach	6
Motherhood enjambed: birth stories, ritual, and Implicit Religion	6
American college students’ understandings of the good life: a grounded theory	6
Listening during Christmas Eve carol services at Liverpool Cathedral: discovering what really matters to service participants	6
Translating secular-religious divide: everyday negotiation of Christian distinctiveness in Catholic schools in the Czechia and Slovakia	6
Exploring religious education teachers’ perspectives on character development and moral virtues, in state-funded, non-faith schools in England	5
Discipleship from Catholic, mainline and conservative Protestant congregant perspectives in Canada	5
The key factors of faith transmission in Lithuanian families	5
Islam as educational knowledge: challenges and barriers to the development of a Religion and Worldviews approach to teaching Islam in schools	5
Mission and practice: an exploration of the relationship in a Catholic school in Australia	5
Workplace spirituality and organizational citizenship behavior among teachers in bahrain: commitment as a mediator	5
Telling the Christmas story in words and music: the development of and contemporary missional value of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols within cathedrals	5
Engaging with the science of cathedral studies: an invitation to the Catholic Church in England and Wales	4
The T.I.T.U.S. Project: Implications of a Catholic spiritual and faith formation programme on the teaching of classroom Religious Education in Australia	4
Data and debate in science and faith: exploring and extending Ecklund’s research programme	4

Radical reform in RE – a response to Mark Chater	4
Teach the Crisis: arguments for teaching the Cartoon Crisis in primary school	4
Transmitting religious values through online religious communities: case study of Pakistani Shia mothers’ home education	4
Securitised teacher professional identity: Muslim teachers in England	4
Assessing the influence of the home in sustaining church attendance in Anglican children attending Anglican primary schools in the Republic of Ireland	4
Argument in religious studies at GCSE: a collaborative developmental research project	4
Parental coping with their child’s abandonment of Jewish Orthodox religious observance in Israel	4
The relationship between conversion narratives to the self and to the community: a case study of a born again group in the Philippines	4
Opportunity for RE? A possible vision of the future for Religious Education structures in England, drawing on the implications of Education for All, the UK Government’s 2022 education White Paper	4
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 1)	4
Monitoring shifts in adolescent spiritual health between 2009 and 2023: a case study in Greater Manchester	3
Perceived hypocrisy and deconversion in adolescents. The mediating role of irrational beliefs and identity styles	3
The diffused religious choice when applying for a university degree in Sydney	3
‘Scientifying’ spirituality or spiritualising biomedicine? Exploring the interplay in healthcare practices in Argentina and Spain	3
Buddhist adolescents’ religiosity: how are its core dimensions correlated with each other and with demographic factors?	3
Homeland insecurity: the rise and rise of global anti-terrorism law	3
Praying for peace: a study of visitors’ prayers offered at Liverpool Cathedral	3
Will the children have faith in the post-pandemic era? Investigating models of children’s faith formation in a world changed by pandemic experiences	3
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment	3
Reframing phenomenological approaches in religious education: insights from affect theory and the aesthetics of religion	3
The ‘image of God’ and the schooling of virtue: Christian-ethos schools of character for the whole community	3
Religious education to develop respect for plurality in Indonesia	2
Non-religious pupils in religious education: an exploration of their specific learning conditions	2
Muslims as a suspect community: a typology to support classroom discussions	2
Anglican cathedrals as episcopal theological resource churches for nurturing growth and sustainability	2
Integrating sustainability into religious education	2
Exploring ethical decision-making in Chinese early childhood teachers	2
I say a little prayer for my singlehood: exploring the role of prayer for single adults’ mental health	2
The right to opt out: a comparative analysis of exemption schemes in Scandinavian public schools and the impact of cultural bias	2
Use of the MMPI-2 and 16PF-5 in predicting perseverance in the order and changes in personality during religious life: a longitudinal study of Polish Catholic nuns	2
Research on family moral education in Chinese pedagogy textbooks	2
Teachers’ constructions of mutual respect and tolerance through the lens of Religious Education: fundamental British values – propaganda or longstanding aims of RE?	2
Mediating role of communion, agency, and private practice on the relationship of spiritual experience and prosocial behavior of the Catholic Youth in the Philippines	2
Enhancing inclusivity and diversity among cathedral visitors: the Brecon Jazz Festival and psychographic segmentation	2
Religious vocation or ‘tender and gentle administration’: African Methodist Episcopalian Church women and in-group appropriation	2
Response to Trevor Cooling and Marius Felderhof	2
Cyber-victimisation and cyber-bullying: the mediation role of the dispositional forgiveness in female and male adolescents	2
Between confessionality and openness. Religious education in polish complementary schools in Great Britain	2
Deeply Christian and serving the common good? A survey of Anglican cathedral provision for schools	2
A virtue-based measurement of integral formation. The questionnaire of competencies and cardinal virtues (QCV)	2
The influence of STEM discipline and environment on UK and US university students’ belief development	2
Teaching Islam in the RE classroom: a view from the edge	2
The Polish validation of the interpersonal generosity scale	2
Art as theological fusion: the Cathedral’s role in lighting the creative fuse	2
City cathedrals resourcing rural churchgoers: a study on the impact of the Exploring the Sunday Gospel programme	2
The role of religion in ethnic minority youth’s civic agency: theoretical considerations and a case study from Finland	2
Social anxiety, social comparison, self-consciousness, and deconversion in adolescents: a path analysis approach	1
Reimagining the accidentally local in English RE	1
Jesus, the Bible and ‘I feel like I should be left-leaning’: the liberalising effect of sociology and diffused religion in Australian non-university faith-based higher education	1
'I think I'm agnostic because I have a Muslim father and a Catholic mother'. Religious transmission to children from interfaith unions in Barcelona	1

The Bloomsbury handbook of religious education in the Global South	1
Reframing controversy: a performative perspective on controversial issues in education about religions and worldviews	1
Are cathedrals the arks of today? Some reflections on cathedral mission and spiritual seekers	1
Implicit religion: afterword to the special issue	1
Understanding hijab-wearing behaviour among female university students: an empirical examination of cultural influence, family influence, and personal preference	1
Is there a place for environmental education in religious education in Türkiye?	1
Benevolent and spiritual – undergraduate social care students’ identification with religious beliefs and moral virtues in a Finnish context	1
Philosophies of Catholic education linking neo-scholastic legacies and contemporary concerns	1
Localisation of Christianity in China: difficulties in and possibilities of achieving harmonious cultural integration	1
The other side of the coin: do the benefits of being a Christian postgraduate at a secular university in England contribute to student wellbeing?	1
Identity, culture and belonging: educating young children for a changing world	1
Contact-based interfaith programmes in schools and the changing religious education landscape: negotiating a worldviews curriculum	1
Stereotypes and meta-stereotypes among Finnish Muslim- and Christian-background youth	1
The mediating role of spiritual well-being in the relationship between patience and meaning of life in parents of children with special needs	1
‘There are two types of faith’: exploring young Portuguese people’s participation in world youth day	1
Religiosity and recognition: multiculturalism and British converts to Islam	1
Neo-Mexican home altars: daily reconnections with the spirit of nature	1
Returning to the sacred spring? Spa treatments, mineral springs and spirituality in settler Australia since 1852	1
And to thine own self be true: ideological tensions of Orthodox Bible teachers in pluralistic schools	1
Saints and shrines as ‘contested heritage’ and the case of Norwich Cathedral	1
A temple to memory: peace and war together within a strange intertwining. Stepping again into the Memorial Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral	1
The prayer experience of youngsters using augmentative and alternative communication in haredi (Jewish ultra-orthodox) educational settings	1
Values, lifestyles, and narratives of prejudices amongst Finnish youth	1
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 2)	1
Roles of religious music and religious well-being in the relationship between fundamentalism and subjective well-being among Korean Christians	1
‘Here today, gone tomorrow’: the risks and rewards of port chaplaincy	1
Educational polyphony for a contemplative under tragic tension: implications from the early life of Smerdyakov in The Brothers Karamazov	1
‘ Alone Australia ’, nature connection and spiritual complexity in popular culture	1
American and Moroccan undergraduates encounter religious difference: an exploratory study	1
Assessing visitor responses to Luke Jerram’s Gaia installation in Lincoln Cathedral: prayers and well wishes for the world	1
A narrative inquiry of the intergenerational transmission of cultural family values in mainland China	1
Evangelical Christians score higher than non-evangelicals on public, but not on private, commitments to morality	1
Learning from laughter: Implicit Religion, satire, and power in two British TV situation comedies	1
Diversity in Islam in British RE	1
Proselytising and pastoral care: chaplains in Australian government schools	1
Using Claude Romano’s ‘evential phenomenology’ to reflect on moments of grace and hope during the pandemic	1
Religious struggles and mental health in the Polish population during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mediation effects of resilience as an “ability to bounce back”	1
Why RE’s radical reform could fail: The politics of epistemology and the economics of producer capture	1
Impacts of religious secondary schools in Hong Kong on student attitudes towards school life	1
Space, the universe and everything : listening to visitors to the Luxmuralis son et lumiere installation at Liverpool Cathedral in 2022	1
Religion in cathedrals: pilgrimage, place, heritage, and the politics of replication	1