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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Religious imaginations: religious literacy as the reading of signs	14
‘Will my child have their own faith?’ Exploring the impact of parental beliefs on childhood faith nurture	11
Love for Allah and love for self: exploring the connection between religious affect and self-esteem among Muslim adolescents in England	10
Listening during Christmas Eve carol services at Liverpool Cathedral: discovering what really matters to service participants	9
More intercultural sensitivity, less cyberbullying: the role of religious education among high-school students	9
‘The beauty of the place and the beauty of the liturgy’: exploring the mission and ministry of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin	9
Forgiveness and its value from the perspective of educational relationship	9
Accessing visitor perception of an immersive cathedral experience: applying the Jungian lenses of sensing and intuition and Bailey’s theory of implicit religion	8
Educational rationality and religious education in Polish public schools	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
Motherhood enjambed: birth stories, ritual, and Implicit Religion	7
Religion and spirituality in social work education and practice: a review and thematic analysis	6
Discipleship from Catholic, mainline and conservative Protestant congregant perspectives in Canada	6
Exploring religious education teachers’ perspectives on character development and moral virtues, in state-funded, non-faith schools in England	6
Mission and practice: an exploration of the relationship in a Catholic school in Australia	6
Exploring the entanglements of contemporary spirituality, Catholicism, and environmentalism in South Tyrol, Italy: an ethnographic approach	6
Similar rights, different paths: the organisation of RE in the Flemish and French communities in Belgium	6
Organisational sensemaking and cultural brokering in U.S. schools: the case of Arabic-speaking Bilingual Resource Specialists	5
American college students’ understandings of the good life: a grounded theory	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	5
Data and debate in science and faith: exploring and extending Ecklund’s research programme	5
Transmitting religious values through online religious communities: case study of Pakistani Shia mothers’ home education	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
The key factors of faith transmission in Lithuanian families	5
Parental coping with their child’s abandonment of Jewish Orthodox religious observance in Israel	5

Securitised teacher professional identity: Muslim teachers in England	5
Islam as educational knowledge: challenges and barriers to the development of a Religion and Worldviews approach to teaching Islam in schools	5
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	5
The relationship between conversion narratives to the self and to the community: a case study of a born again group in the Philippines	5
Perceived hypocrisy and deconversion in adolescents. The mediating role of irrational beliefs and identity styles	4
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 1)	4
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment	4
Radical reform in RE – a response to Mark Chater	4
Beyond boundaries: unravelling the journey of multi-religious education in Malaysia	4
Argument in religious studies at GCSE: a collaborative developmental research project	4
Engaging with the science of cathedral studies: an invitation to the Catholic Church in England and Wales	4
Buddhist adolescents’ religiosity: how are its core dimensions correlated with each other and with demographic factors?	4
Teach the Crisis: arguments for teaching the Cartoon Crisis in primary school	4
Homeland insecurity: the rise and rise of global anti-terrorism law	3
Assessing the influence of the home in sustaining church attendance in Anglican children attending Anglican primary schools in the Republic of Ireland	3
Evolution and origins: Israeli Bible education experts on teaching the intersection of science and religion	3
Cyber-victimisation and cyber-bullying: the mediation role of the dispositional forgiveness in female and male adolescents	3
Rediscovering faith and family connections: a study of University students’ engagement in online catechesis	3
Monitoring shifts in adolescent spiritual health between 2009 and 2023: a case study in Greater Manchester	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
The ‘image of God’ and the schooling of virtue: Christian-ethos schools of character for the whole community	3
Integrating sustainability into religious education	3
Praying for peace: a study of visitors’ prayers offered at Liverpool Cathedral	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
‘Scientifying’ spirituality or spiritualising biomedicine? Exploring the interplay in healthcare practices in Argentina and Spain	3
Exploring ethical decision-making in Chinese early childhood teachers	3
Anglican cathedrals as episcopal theological resource churches for nurturing growth and sustainability	2
Enhancing inclusivity and diversity among cathedral visitors: the Brecon Jazz Festival and psychographic segmentation	2
City cathedrals resourcing rural churchgoers: a study on the impact of the Exploring the Sunday Gospel programme	2
I say a little prayer for my singlehood: exploring the role of prayer for single adults’ mental health	2
Teachers’ constructions of mutual respect and tolerance through the lens of Religious Education: fundamental British values – propaganda or longstanding aims of RE?	2
Non-religious pupils in religious education: an exploration of their specific learning conditions	2
Response to Trevor Cooling and Marius Felderhof	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
Religious vocation or ‘tender and gentle administration’: African Methodist Episcopalian Church women and in-group appropriation	2
The right to opt out: a comparative analysis of exemption schemes in Scandinavian public schools and the impact of cultural bias	2
The role of religion in ethnic minority youth’s civic agency: theoretical considerations and a case study from Finland	2
Deeply Christian and serving the common good? A survey of Anglican cathedral provision for schools	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
Art as theological fusion: the Cathedral’s role in lighting the creative fuse	2
The Polish validation of the interpersonal generosity scale	2
Muslims as a suspect community: a typology to support classroom discussions	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