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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
More intercultural sensitivity, less cyberbullying: the role of religious education among high-school students	14
Love for Allah and love for self: exploring the connection between religious affect and self-esteem among Muslim adolescents in England	10
Religious imaginations: religious literacy as the reading of signs	9
‘Will my child have their own faith?’ Exploring the impact of parental beliefs on childhood faith nurture	9
Forgiveness and its value from the perspective of educational relationship	8
Listening during Christmas Eve carol services at Liverpool Cathedral: discovering what really matters to service participants	7
Mission and practice: an exploration of the relationship in a Catholic school in Australia	7
Educational rationality and religious education in Polish public schools	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
Islam as educational knowledge: challenges and barriers to the development of a Religion and Worldviews approach to teaching Islam in schools	6
Workplace spirituality and organizational citizenship behavior among teachers in bahrain: commitment as a mediator	6
Similar rights, different paths: the organisation of RE in the Flemish and French communities in Belgium	6
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
American college students’ understandings of the good life: a grounded theory	5
Motherhood enjambed: birth stories, ritual, and Implicit Religion	5
Exploring the entanglements of contemporary spirituality, Catholicism, and environmentalism in South Tyrol, Italy: an ethnographic approach	5
Translating secular-religious divide: everyday negotiation of Christian distinctiveness in Catholic schools in the Czechia and Slovakia	5
Social inequality and interreligious learning: an empirical analysis of students’ agency to cope with interreligious learning tasks	5
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
Securitised teacher professional identity: Muslim teachers in England	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
Data and debate in science and faith: exploring and extending Ecklund’s research programme	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
The relationship between conversion narratives to the self and to the community: a case study of a born again group in the Philippines	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
Religiosity as a mediator of forgiveness among educators and parents in seven Muslim communities	4
Parental coping with their child’s abandonment of Jewish Orthodox religious observance in Israel	4
Homeland insecurity: the rise and rise of global anti-terrorism law	3
Buddhist adolescents’ religiosity: how are its core dimensions correlated with each other and with demographic factors?	3
Engaging with the science of cathedral studies: an invitation to the Catholic Church in England and Wales	3
Assessing the influence of the home in sustaining church attendance in Anglican children attending Anglican primary schools in the Republic of Ireland	3
Argument in religious studies at GCSE: a collaborative developmental research project	3
Radical reform in RE – a response to Mark Chater	3
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 1)	3
Perceived hypocrisy and deconversion in adolescents. The mediating role of irrational beliefs and identity styles	3
Teach the Crisis: arguments for teaching the Cartoon Crisis in primary school	3
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment	3
Praying for peace: a study of visitors’ prayers offered at Liverpool Cathedral	3
‘Scientifying’ spirituality or spiritualising biomedicine? Exploring the interplay in healthcare practices in Argentina and Spain	2
Will the children have faith in the post-pandemic era? Investigating models of children’s faith formation in a world changed by pandemic experiences	2
Anglican cathedrals as episcopal theological resource churches for nurturing growth and sustainability	2
Reframing phenomenological approaches in religious education: insights from affect theory and the aesthetics of religion	2
Deeply Christian and serving the common good? A survey of Anglican cathedral provision for schools	2
The role of religion in ethnic minority youth’s civic agency: theoretical considerations and a case study from Finland	2
‘It is never good. Really, it’s just never good’: a dominant theme in the life story accounts of strictly Reformed-raised emerging adults about their religious identity development	2
Enhancing inclusivity and diversity among cathedral visitors: the Brecon Jazz Festival and psychographic segmentation	2
Cyber-victimisation and cyber-bullying: the mediation role of the dispositional forgiveness in female and male adolescents	2
The ‘image of God’ and the schooling of virtue: Christian-ethos schools of character for the whole community	2
Monitoring shifts in adolescent spiritual health between 2009 and 2023: a case study in Greater Manchester	2
Exploring ethical decision-making in Chinese early childhood teachers	2
The Polish validation of the interpersonal generosity scale	2
Non-religious pupils in religious education: an exploration of their specific learning conditions	2
The right to opt out: a comparative analysis of exemption schemes in Scandinavian public schools and the impact of cultural bias	2
Muslims as a suspect community: a typology to support classroom discussions	2
Response to Trevor Cooling and Marius Felderhof	2
City cathedrals resourcing rural churchgoers: a study on the impact of the Exploring the Sunday Gospel programme	2
Tests of life or life of tests?: similarities and differences in parents’ and teachers’ prioritisation of character, academic attainment, the virtues and moral theories	2
The diffused religious choice when applying for a university degree in Sydney	2
Development ofXin-Yang 信仰scale: understanding spirituality among Chinese college students	2
Teaching Islam in the RE classroom: a view from the edge	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
Religiousness predicts quality of university life among university students with different religion types	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
I say a little prayer for my singlehood: exploring the role of prayer for single adults’ mental health	2
Religious vocation or ‘tender and gentle administration’: African Methodist Episcopalian Church women and in-group appropriation	2