OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Religious Education is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Children’s Experiences Matter: An Interdisciplinary Approach	9
Epistemic injustice as a ground for religious education in public schools	6
Reflections from an English Perspective on Nurturing Young Children’s Spiritual Growth and Implications for Religious Education	6
Preparing for the 2023 REA Annual Meeting	6
What Makes Education Catholic: Spiritual Foundations	5
Pressing Forward: Faith, Culture, and African American YouthPressing Forward: Faith, Culture, and African American Youth. By Carmichael Crutchfield with Denise Janssen. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 202	5
Seeking Equilibrium While the Debate Continues: The Role of the Director of Religious Studies in Catholic Secondary Schools in the Diocese of Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand	5
The Passover Seder as an Exercise in Piagetian Education Theory	4
Theology as a Way of Life: On Teaching and Learning the Christian Faith	4
The Routledge Handbook of Religious Literacy, Pluralism, and Global Engagement	3
Secular Students’ Perceptions of Christian Rhetoric: What College Students Do and Do Not Want from Conversations with Christians	2
The REA between Generations	2
Reciprocal Church: Becoming a Community Where Faith Flourishes Beyond High School	2
A Pedagogy of Striving	2
Kwame Bediako: A Decolonial Quest to Recover Spirituality of the Wholeness of Life in Theological Education	2
Church in Color: Youth Ministry, Race, and the Theology of Martin Luther King Jr	2
Lament, Hospitality, and Living Together with ‘Our’ Children: Rethinking Religious Education in Local Churches with Children Who Have Refugee/IDP Backgrounds	1
The Exact Synonym for “Missionary” is “Negro Teacher”: Black Feminism in the Sunday School	1
A Vision of Parousia ¹ – Possibilities for the Next Generation…and the Next	1
Between Despair and Honest Hope: Facing the Aporetic Space of the Climate Crisis	1
To Serve and Unite Children within a World of Diversity is to Recognize the Presence of God	1
Neocolonialism, Anti-Coloniality and Religious Education: New Lessons from Africa South of the Sahara (ASoS)	1
Liberation, (De)Coloniality, and Liturgical Practices: Flipping the Song Bird	1
The Relationship between Islamic Religious Education and Citizenship Education in Liberal Democracies	1
Epistemic Injustice and Religious Education	1

The “Voice of Religion” in the Public Sphere: A Review Essay	1
Our Children, Their Lives, Their Faith	1
Let us Govern around the Kitchen Table: Embodying the Guild’s Anti-Colonial Commitments	1
Anticipating the Opportunities and Challenges of Using Commercial-off-the-Shelf Games to Educate People on Environmental Stewardship and Morality in a Christian Context	1
The False Choice Between Science and Faith	1
An Essay: Becoming Good Ancestors	1
Teaching Race, Colonialism, and Theology in a Joint Project in North America and Africa: Insights from the Project	1
In the Wake of Fire	1
Race, Religion, and Belonging at a Christian University	1
Empathy Display and Suppression among Ultra-Orthodox Male Teachers: The Influence of Culture and Religion	1
Because They Don’t Know Bits from Bobs: Exploring the Hows and Whys of Teaching Sex Ed Alongside Sexual Ethics	1
The Christian Personalism Inherited in Newman’s Educational Approach	1
Becoming Good Ancestors	1
Life to the Full: The Changing Landscape of Contemporary Spirituality: Implications for Catholic School Religious Education	0
The Educational Function of a Hindu Core Text in a Liberal Arts Context: Character Education and Caring for the Soul in theBhagavadgita	0
Crossed Wires: The Disconnect Between Christian Leaders’ Perceptions of Parents and the Lived Experiences of Contemporary Families	0
Teaching Ethics of Sex with Tenderness: Religious Literacy and Sexual Literacy in the Undergraduate Classroom	0
Forming a New Normal: Service Learning & Short-Term Mission Post COVID-19	0
Can the Ancestors Speak? Religious Education, Who and How	0
Principles of Teaching and Learning from the Bhagavad Gita: A Thematic Analysis	0
The Precarity of LGBTQ Catholic (Religious) Educators: A Theological Provocation to Teaching as a Call	0
Religion in South African Education: A Divisive or Unifying Force?	0
The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life	0
Confrontation and Healing	0
Being and Becoming Good Ancestors	0
Construction of Place: Creating a Religious Built Environment to Optimally Support a Child’s Entrance into Flow	0
Godly Play Went Home: An Exploratory Study of the Experience of Godly Play in Homes during the Covid-19 Pandemic through the Lens of Caregivers	0
Becoming a Good Living Ancestor	0
An Exploratory Study of Students’ Academic Entitlement in Arabic Culture and Religion Courses	0
Tending the Fire That Burns at the Center of the World: Beauty and the Art of Christian Formation. By David F. White	0
Learning to Walk with My Ancestors	0
Balancing Heartbreak and Hope at the Dawn of the Anthropocene	0
Cultivating Empathy for Earth: Integrating Empathy into Ecological Religious Education	0
The Queer Identity of Religious Education	0
Learning from the Good Shepherd in Multimodal Texts: Picture Book Retellings of Psalm 23 and Jesus’ Parable of the Lost Sheep	0
Being Educated and Practicing Communal Lament for Co-Creating a Tradition of Memory, Resistance, and Care in Liturgy: Reconsidering the Narrative of Suffering in the Time of Violence against Women	0
Exploring the Potential for Religious Literacy in Saudi Secondary Education	0
In Transit: Shared Motions of Responsibility and Belonging	0
Faith Beyond Youth Group: Five Ways to Form Character and Cultivate Lifelong Discipleship Faith Beyond Youth Group: Five Ways to Form Character and Cultivate Lifelong Discipleship	0
Montessori, “Formation,” and the Adult Learner	0
In Memoriam: Jerome Woods Berryman 1937–2024	0
On the Significance of Religion for the SDGs: An Introduction	0
Educating Black Girls Enduring Microaggressions in an Oreo World	0
Impact of Religious Involvement and Religious Commitment on Post-Pandemic Well-Being among Chinese University Students	0
Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education	0
Welcome to Dear Earth: Resourcing Spirit for the Anthropocene Era	0
Facilitator Guidance during Interfaith Dialogue	0
Nurturing the Sanctified Imagination of Urban Youth	0
Reflections on the Distinctive Role and Scope of Religious Education	0
Faith Formation and Children’s Agency in the Context of Vietnamese American Catholic Families	0

Using the Evocative Phenomenological Method in the Godly Play Room to Discover Insights into How Children Are a Means of Grace	0
Pedagogical Guidelines for School Religious Education in the Context of Rural Education	0
“Justice in the World” at 50: A Call to Action Worthy of Recovery	0
Between Fight and Theatrical Performance: Conceptual Metaphors of Positionality in Communication about Cooperative Religious Education in Germany	0
Formative Theological Education Formative Theological Education . Edited by Colleen M.Griffith and HosffmanOspino. New York: Paulist Press, 2023. 151 pp. $27.95 (paperba	0
Teaching Religious Moderation to Pre-Service Teachers: An Indonesian Case Study	0
Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching	0
The Importance of Religious Education in Consolidating Kazakh Identity in China: An Historical Approach	0
Children of the ‘Now’: Dispelling Some Neoliberal Assumptions in Christian Religious Education	0
Leadership in Theological Education in the Time of Coronavirus	0
Religious Education in Agricultural Environments: Integrating Islamic Teachings and Agricultural Practices for Holistic Student Development	0
Pedagogical Practices for the Transformation of the Faith Community toward Wholeness: Contextual Analysis of Clergy Sexual Abuse	0
Out on Waters: The Religious Life and Learning of Young Catholics beyond the Church	0
Reclaiming Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope for Religious Education	0
Integrating Life in Education: An Indian Perspective	0
Religious Education Undoing Heteronormativity: A Case Study of Christian Adolescents’ Perceptions of LGBTQ+ Sexualities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	0
Fundamentals of a Pluralism-Fostering Islamic Religious Education: Navigating Cultural and Religious Dimensions of Plurality	0
Pedagogy of the Ancestors: Religious Education and Tomorrow’s Yesterday	0
A History of Islamic Schooling in North America: Mapping Growth and Evolution A History of Islamic Schooling in North America: Mapping Growth and Evolution . By Nadeem A	0
Making It Different? Islamic Religious Education, Gender and Leadership	0
Spiritual Intelligence: A Vision for Formation in Religious Education	0
Graceful Agnosticism: A Pedagogy for Religious Life and Learning Today	0
Getting Rid of “Church-Related” Colleges and Universities: Applying a New Operationalizing Faith Identity Guide to Protestant Higher Education	0
Influencing Contextual Factors in the Religious Identity Development of Strict Reformed-Raised Emerging Adults in The Netherlands	0
Climate Change Issues in Saudi Elementary Schools: An Analysis and Suggestions for Islamic Studies Textbooks	0
The Way of Catechesis: Exploring Our History, Renewing Our Ministry The Way of Catechesis: Exploring Our History, Renewing Our Ministry . By Gerard F. Baumbach. Notre Da	0
Embracing Sexuality and Gender: Toward Radical Love	0
Learning Orientations in Interfaith Initiatives: A Case Study of the Interfaith Leadership Program Emoena	0
Shifting Identifications among Religious and Non-Religious Emerging Adults at a Northeastern U.S. Mainstream Denominational College	0
Teaching Sexuality and Religion in Higher Education: Embodied Learning, Trauma Sensitive Pedagogy, and Perspective Transformation Teaching Sexuality and Religion in Higher Education: Em	0
A Pilgrimage to the Motherland: Understanding Pilgrimage Experience as Embodied Religious Education for Korean American Youth and Young Adults	0
Prayer Services in Religious High Schools for Boys in Israel-Teachers' Perspectives: Are They Listening to Students?	0
Recognizing Stones and Snakes in Children’s Christian Formation: An Introduction to Religious Trauma and Abuse	0
Youth Faith Development, Consumer Culture, and Climate Justice	0
Weaving Ancestral Wisdom: Communicating the Power of Sumbanese Women’s Resistance to the Next Generation through Arts-Based Liberative Pedagogy	0
Mindfulness in Education and Religious Education	0
Courage Beyond Fear: Re-Formation in Theological Education	0
Earth Care: Some Reflections about Our Unsettling Situation	0
Returning to the Edge: Religious Education, Affiliation, and Accompaniment	0
William Rainey Harper’s Founding Vision for the REA and the Rhetoric of American Imperialism	0
Meaningful Vocation in a Climate-Changed World: Learnings from Seminary of the Wild	0
Gratitude: Forebears and Future Bearers	0
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy for Gender, Sexuality and Wholeness in Religious Education	0
Whose Children are They? Talking about Responsibility for Children’s Religious Education	0
Perspectives of Youth on Religious Education in the Philippines	0
Savoring the Sacred: Cultivating Spiritual and Ethical Dispositions to Address the Climate Crisis Through a Eucharistic Rule of Life	0
Engaging Story-Linking Through Conversations Between Mother and Daughter: Explorations in the Hermeneutics of Experience and Christian Religious Education	0
Religious Literacy and Interfaith Cooperation: Toward a Common Understanding	0
Investigating the Work of School Based Religious Education Leaders in Australian Catholic Schools	0
Good Ancestors Practicing a Holistic Vision for Ecological Conversion	0
Beyond Affiliation: Leadership for Belonging in a Faith-Adjacent Foster Youth Mentoring Network	0
The Challenge for Religious Education in Zambia’s Formal Education System	0
Augustine on Religious Education as Aesthetic Experience	0
Is Any-Body There?¹	0
The Intersection of Religious/Christian Educator and Denominational Leader	0
A Financial Education Program for Future Bridegrooms in Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas: The Graduate’s Perspective	0
Climate Change in Religious Education and the Importance of Hope: A Systematic Review of International Journal Articles 2000–2022	0
Dear Earth: Thoughts on an I/Thou Relationship	0
Religious Education Scholars Cannot Assume They Are Talking about the Same Things	0
Sacralizing Sexualized Bodies	0
At the Intersection of Religious Education and Administration	0
The Hikmah Model as a Means for Interconvictional Dialogue and Citizenship Education in Francophone (Belgian) Secondary Education	0
Meditation on Human Response-Ability	0
Reading the Bible, Learning Ourselves: A Contextual Bible Study with Culturally Hybrid Youth	0
Liberation in the Face of Uncertainty: A New Development in Dialogical Self Theory Liberation in the Face of Uncertainty: A New Development in Dialogical Self Theory . B	0
Dancing as Fast as I Can	0
The Hidden Force of Gender and Sexuality: A Pedagogy of Truth-Seeking	0
Changing Students’ Perceptions by HumanizingDatiIsraelis through Comics	0
Accepted Visibility of Worldviews in Finnish Basic Education – Teachers’ Attitudes in Boundary Setting	0
How Can Buddhist Education Help Adolescents Develop Moral Behavior?	0
John Witherspoon: Religious Educator to the American Founding Generation	0
A Pedagogy for Precarious Times: Religious Education and Vulnerability	0
Religious Education in Times of Armed Conflict	0
Navigating Waste: A Journey Through Environmental Awareness, Faith, and Global Responsibility	0
Discovering Good Ancestors, Hoping to Become One	0
Healing Our Divide with the Non-Human World: Theological Foundations and Pedagogical Practices within the Wild Church Network	0
Negotiating the Task of Translation: Modern Orthodox Students Read the Hebrew Bible	0
Hospitable Education	0
Improving the Pedagogy of Islamic Religious Education in Secondary Schools: The Role of Critical Religious Education and Variation Theory	0
What Do 4–6 Year-Old Children Ask about Religious Issues?	0

Mixed (up) and Messy: Culturally Hybrid Proposals for Vocational Exploration	0
Gender, Sexuality, and Religious Education	0
Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump	0
Innovations in Children’s Spiritual Nurture	0
Temporal Mind Mapping	0
Crossing Borders: Religious Education for Gender Equity in a Neoliberal Society	0
Religious Education and Adolescent Kindness: A Qualitative Study among Students in Christian Secondary Schools	0
Introducing the Seminary to Early Ministry Study	0
Religion and Education: The Voices of Young People in Ireland	0
Lament ‘With’ Dear Earth: The Complexity of Hope in the Dynamics of Interemptying and Intergiving ¹	0
Becoming a Christian Sexuality Educator	0
Islam and Sex Education in The Netherlands: Reflection on an Example of Teaching Material for Islamic Primary Schools	0
Arm in Arm with Adolescent Girls: Educating into the New Creation	0
Accompanying and Learning from Reconciling United Methodist Youth at a Time of Denominational Upheaval	0
Beyond the Explicit, Implicit, and Null Curricula: Elliot Eisner’s Contributions to Religious Education	0
Solidarity in the Field of Religious Education	0
Repurposed Faith: Reimagining Pedagogical Practices for Faith-Based Climate Action	0
Ancestors Are the Storytellers: The Realm of the Hungry Ghost and Hell in Buddhism	0
‘Samae Spirit’ Assist toward ‘Ubuntu Spirit’ Model for Rural Adult Christian Education in Zambia	0
Elie Wiesel: Teacher, Mentor, and Friend	0
The Entrepreneurship Process of Western Immigrants Who Have Impacted Religious Education in Israel: A Qualitative Study	0
Ecological Peace Education: Toward a Pedagogy for Climate Justice	0
Religious Educators and Change	0
On Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind for Teaching and Learning in Religious Education	0
Perceptions of Principal Authentic Leadership: A Survey of Israeli Elementary Teachers in Diverse Religious-Cultural Contexts	0
Pathways Into Teaching Ecological Engagement in Congregations	0
Reflections on Mentoring and Faculty of Color: A White Academic Dean’s Perspective	0
Into the Deep: Teacher Reflections on the Development and Implementation of a Trial Religious Education Curriculum	0
A Christian America Restored: The Rise of the Evangelical Christian School Movement in America, 1920–1952	0
Engaging Childist Biblical Interpretation and Reading Studies to Enhance Children’s Bible Lessons	0
Facing the Unknown Future: Religion and Education on the Move	0
Debt of Gratitude to Religious Education Ancestors	0
Educational Experiences and Teacher Faith Integration Self-Efficacy in PreK–12 Mennonite Schools in North America	0
How Food Teaches and Why It Matters for Religious Education	0
Female Child Soldiering, Gender Violence, and Feminist Theologies	0
Asking Other Questions: Lifting up Gender and Sexuality in Womanist Practical Theological Research	0
Leading Toward Excellence … But Whose Excellence?	0
Theology as Experienced and Verbalized	0
Lions or Cheetahs? Who is Responsible for Raising Kids in Faith?	0
Haunted by (Ontological) Ancestors and Bodies in Precarity: Religious Education Confronts Ontological Terror, Biopower, and Necropolitics	0
Korean Women’s Speaking in #MeToo Movement	0
People, Programs, and Practices: Religious Literacies in the Lives of Latter-day Saint Young Adults	0
Educating for Gratitude	0
Leading Change: Administrative Imaginings for a Decolonial Education	0
Wondering about Whose Children They Are	0
Teaching Believers to Hear the Cry of the Earth	0