OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Beliefs & Values-Studies in Religion & 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Will my child have their own faith?’ Exploring the impact of parental beliefs on childhood faith nurture	15
Religious imaginations: religious literacy as the reading of signs	11
More intercultural sensitivity, less cyberbullying: the role of religious education among high-school students	10
Forgiveness and its value from the perspective of educational relationship	9
‘The beauty of the place and the beauty of the liturgy’: exploring the mission and ministry of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin	9
Educational rationality and religious education in Polish public schools	7
Listening during Christmas Eve carol services at Liverpool Cathedral: discovering what really matters to service participants	7
Love for Allah and love for self: exploring the connection between religious affect and self-esteem among Muslim adolescents in England	7
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
Similar rights, different paths: the organisation of RE in the Flemish and French communities in Belgium	7
Translating secular-religious divide: everyday negotiation of Christian distinctiveness in Catholic schools in the Czechia and Slovakia	6
Motherhood enjambed: birth stories, ritual, and Implicit Religion	6
American college students’ understandings of the good life: a grounded theory	6
Mission and practice: an exploration of the relationship in a Catholic school in Australia	5
Discipleship from Catholic, mainline and conservative Protestant congregant perspectives in Canada	5
Social inequality and interreligious learning: an empirical analysis of students’ agency to cope with interreligious learning tasks	5
Exploring the entanglements of contemporary spirituality, Catholicism, and environmentalism in South Tyrol, Italy: an ethnographic approach	5
Exploring religious education teachers’ perspectives on character development and moral virtues, in state-funded, non-faith schools in England	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
Workplace spirituality and organizational citizenship behavior among teachers in bahrain: commitment as a mediator	5
Islam as educational knowledge: challenges and barriers to the development of a Religion and Worldviews approach to teaching Islam in schools	5
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
Perceived hypocrisy and deconversion in adolescents. The mediating role of irrational beliefs and identity styles	4

The key factors of faith transmission in Lithuanian families	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
Engaging with the science of cathedral studies: an invitation to the Catholic Church in England and Wales	4
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 1)	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
Assessing the influence of the home in sustaining church attendance in Anglican children attending Anglican primary schools in the Republic of Ireland	4
Teach the Crisis: arguments for teaching the Cartoon Crisis in primary school	4
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
Development ofXin-Yang 信仰scale: understanding spirituality among Chinese college students	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 diffused religious choice when applying for a university degree in Sydney	3
Monitoring shifts in adolescent spiritual health between 2009 and 2023: a case study in Greater Manchester	3
Argument in religious studies at GCSE: a collaborative developmental research project	3
Praying for peace: a study of visitors’ prayers offered at Liverpool Cathedral	3
Exploring ethical decision-making in Chinese early childhood teachers	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
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
Cyber-victimisation and cyber-bullying: the mediation role of the dispositional forgiveness in female and male adolescents	2
Integrating sustainability into religious education	2
Response to Trevor Cooling and Marius Felderhof	2
The role of religion in ethnic minority youth’s civic agency: theoretical considerations and a case study from Finland	2
A virtue-based measurement of integral formation. The questionnaire of competencies and cardinal virtues (QCV)	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
The Polish validation of the interpersonal generosity scale	2
Art as theological fusion: the Cathedral’s role in lighting the creative fuse	2
The ‘image of God’ and the schooling of virtue: Christian-ethos schools of character for the whole community	2
Teaching Islam in the RE classroom: a view from the edge	2
The right to opt out: a comparative analysis of exemption schemes in Scandinavian public schools and the impact of cultural bias	2
Teachers’ constructions of mutual respect and tolerance through the lens of Religious Education: fundamental British values – propaganda or longstanding aims of RE?	2
Research on family moral education in Chinese pedagogy textbooks	2
City cathedrals resourcing rural churchgoers: a study on the impact of the Exploring the Sunday Gospel programme	2
‘Scientifying’ spirituality or spiritualising biomedicine? Exploring the interplay in healthcare practices in Argentina and Spain	2
Anglican cathedrals as episcopal theological resource churches for nurturing growth and sustainability	2
Muslims as a suspect community: a typology to support classroom discussions	2
I say a little prayer for my singlehood: exploring the role of prayer for single adults’ mental health	2
Religiousness predicts quality of university life among university students with different religion types	2
The influence of STEM discipline and environment on UK and US university students’ belief development	2