British Journal of Religious Education

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of interreligious dialogue: ethics of alterity in the age of religious plurality30
Emotional responses of school members and stakeholders from a religious community to a curriculum reform12
Dialogues between Ivan and Smerdyakov after the murder of their father from The Brothers Karamazov : their educational implications11
Equipping educators to teach religious literacy: lessons from a teacher education program in the American South11
Negotiating sexuality in religious education: a scoping review of global research trends (2000–2025)10
Effects of integrating augmented reality into educational board games on students learning Taiwanese folk beliefs10
Weathering the storm. catholic schools facing the Church’s crisis in the last decade in Chile9
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation8
Teachers as facilitators of exploration in lower secondary religious education: classroom perspectives from Norway8
Facilitating multidimensional engagement using the historical-critical approach7
Shaped by the story: narrative theology, storytelling and Christian Religious Education7
Depoliticisation of stigma: the drama series Skam (”shame”) as an instance of public religious education7
Islamic religious education and state school policies in France and Senegal7
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case7
Who studies Religious Education? Understanding young people’s perceptions of religion, religious identity and religious education in England6
The model of religious education in today’s secular and multicultural societies – Post-Confessional Inclusivist Religious Education (PCIRE)6
Towards an integral vision of religious education6
RE teachers and the shifting landscape of values education in England6
Rear-mirror view: representation of Islam and Muslims in the RE textbooks6
Unveiling the taboos: examining the role of culture and religion in sex education in India5
Gender representation and sexuality discourses in Sunni and Shia Islamic Studies textbooks (Grades 7–8) in Ontario, Canada5
Beyond memorization: cultivating holistic excellence through a multidisciplinary tahfiz curriculum in Indonesian pesantren5
An evaluation of the effectiveness of Reformed Christian schooling in terms of academic contingent self-worth: an American case in the late 1980s5
Reviewing the place of Humanism in religious education5
A reconstruction of the international standards of religious education of juveniles in correctional institutions5
What is the point of ministry among children, youth and families? Examination of aims and activities from different perspectives5
Faith-informed character: the role of religion in university students’ processing and resolution of moral challenges5
Freedom of belief, the right to withdrawal and Christian religious education in Northern Ireland5
Religious Education and ‘interfaith readiness’: how does a Religion and Worldviews approach prepare students for the religious diversity of university life?4
Perceptions of science, religion and spirituality in high school students: an empirical approach4
Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated4
Navigating the intersection: philosophy and religious education in China’s elementary public schools4
Exploring ‘diversity’ and ‘pluralism’: a sociological analysis of religious education textbooks In the ‘Islamic Republic’ of Iran4
Faith in science, implicit religion and antipathy to religions: a study among Christian and non-religious students4
Students’ critical awareness of the internet and social media use as resources for Islamic learning in Indonesian public senior high schools3
Little theologians: children, culture, and the making of theological meaning3
Addressing religious and worldview diversity in welfare and care profession education? Reflections based on a faith-based higher education initiative in Norway3
The role of Islamic education teachers in enhancing higher-order thinking: a systematic review3
The professional identity of elementary school rabbis in the national-religious education system in Israel3
Navigating superdiversity in Catholic and Muslim religious education in Norway3
Tensions between inclusion and change in worldview education: can Joe F. Kincheloe’s bricolage help teachers navigate them?3
Cultivating a just habitus through intercultural wisdom of women3
Activating reflexivity: supporting professional development for preservice teachers in religious education3
Factors affecting religious tolerance and prejudice in school context: a mixed method research synthesis3
An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent3
Transformative islamic education as a resource for religious education in the anthropocene: an eco-social synthesis3
Talaba-e-madaris and madrasas in India: a narrative research3
Bridging the divide: casuistry and the integration of religious and philosophical ethics in RE3
Working towards improved collaboration: reviewing provision and support for Christian parents/carers3
Rebuilding ministry in UK state schools: investigating how pandemic disruption may effect positive change3
Listening to the voices of religious education professionals: the relationship between technology and religious education3
The impact of critical thinking dispositions on tolerance and encountering differences: a study of RE teacher candidates in Turkey2
Has the English baccalaureate ‘killed off’ RE?2
Teachers’ conceptualisations of religion as a concept and as a subject for teaching: a problematisation2
Values of the religion curriculum in Spanish compulsory secondary education2
Islamic Emancipation as alternative Maarifa in education: decoloniality as a holy mission2
Sex education and religion - resistance and possibilities2
The contested contribution of Islamic religious education to citizenship education: an analysis of Dutch primary school textbooks2
Religious education in epistemic superdiversity: combining pluralism with truth-seeking in a shared world2
Religious education: learning what from studying religions?2
Placing religion virtually: combining textbooks with virtual student-produced 360-degree virtual tours of churches in teacher education for RE2
A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners2
Learning with(in) religious tradition. Navigating the existential in Islamic religious education2
Knowledge in a religion and worldviews approach in English schools2
Spirituality for interculturality: under what conditions?2
Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE2
‘This religion is not…’: Norwegian upper secondary students’ secular imaginations of religion through via negativa statements2
Religion, spirituality, or stress management? Mindfulness and meditation in Swedish textbooks for Religious Education and Physical Education and Health2
Cultural adaptation and validation of the SHALOM-G-CZ instrument for secondary education in the Czech context2
Recognising non-visible Muslimness: epistemological superdiversity and identity formation in Religious Education2
Meeting the majority religion. Majority church field trips and educational equality in Norwegian RE2
Measuring religious literacy: towards building an instrument2
Religious moderation in Islamic education as an approach to preventing sexual harassment: implementation analysis in Indonesian madrasahs2
The British Journal of Religious Education (BJRE) at 902
Re-imagining senior secondary religious education: evaluating the religion, meaning, and life curriculum2
Knowledge, authority, and Islamic education in the West: reconfiguring tradition2
Functions of crisis in religious education discourse since 1975. A critical corpus-assisted analysis2
Humankind as the Image of God: a cognitive semantic application of Genesis 1:1–2:3 in the classroom2
The construction of collective religious memory through religious education: the (In)visibility of Alevis at schools in the European context2
Enacting Jewish superdiversity at the boundary: classroom interaction in times of terror and war1
The variety of worldview profiles among Finnish upper secondary school students: a latent class analysis1
Integration of critical pedagogy in Islamic education: a case study of pre-service teacher training1
‘To make more room for 21st century themes’: the secular dynamics and demise of Quebec’s ‘Ethics and Religious Culture’ curriculum1
Maktab education : a community imperative and the making of Muslim ambassadors1
Religious and moral education in Scottish non-denominational primary schools: charting curriculum change through school handbooks1
Who are we?1
Secularism and religious holidays in kindergartens: a comparative study of Australia and Norway1
Who attends religion classes? An empirical analysis of Polish adolescents’ participation in school-based religious education1
Didactical model to promote perspective taking1
Meaningful access to levensbeschouwelijke vakken (Religious and non-confessional worldview subjects) in Flanders: Article 24, organisational reform and minority rights1
The legal framework for religious education in Norway - towards a Kantian balance between rights of state and rights of the citizen1
The branding and perception of madrasahs on social media: an analysis of misinformation and public sentiment using social network analysis1
Enhancing learners’ motivation and engagement in religious education classes at elementary levels1
Reproducing Islamic knowledge in Indonesian pesantren: Turāṯ , textual tradition, and epistemic continuity1
Problems experienced by Christian religious education teachers in Indonesia: a hermeneutic phenomenological study1
Critique in Religious Education1
Between astronomy and religion : dialogue in the Saudi primary science classroom1
COVID-19 and religious education reimagined: discovering a reflective space through Hannah Arendt’s concept of thinking1
‘Falsafa for Schools’ – an interdisciplinary tightrope act. Challenges and principles for selecting insights from global philosophy for national school education. The case of Fa1
Reimagining religious education: integrating ethnographic and anthropological perspectives1
Discussions of ethical dilemmas: developing ethical competence and life skills in upper secondary religious education in Norway1
Uncovering Islamophobia in higher education: supporting the success of Muslim students and staff1
Teachers’ perspectives on ethics education – expressed as opportunities and challenges1
Editorial1
The moral life of attention: silence, waiting, and the governance of inner life in Islamic Religious Education1
Reassessing the role of religious education in shaping moral and civic identity in Pakistani society1
Teaching religious stories in lower primary school: a Norwegian case study of 8-year-old students’ perception of the Moses narratives1
Experiences of teachers in U.S. Catholic schools during the COVID-19 pandemic era1
The ethics of disagreement (adab al-ikhtilaf): religious education for intercultural competence in Arabo-Islamic pedagogy1
School as a secular space in contemporary India: everyday practice in Azad Bharat Vidyalaya1
Is there a place for young children in the modern-day UK church? Investigating approaches to faith nurture in the early years1
Religion and worldviews in education: the new watershed1
Two traditions one ideal: convergences and divergences in Justin Popović and Franz Rosenzweig’s philosophical thought concerning religious education in the public sphere1
The contribution of chaplaincy classes to the moral formation of future military leaders: an ethnographic study in Dutch military chaplaincy1
Conceptualising religion and worldviews for the school opportunities, challenges, and complexities of a transition from religious education in England and beyond1
Decolonising education in Islamic West Africa: Secular erasure, school preference and social inequality1
Integrating deep learning pedagogy with project-based spiritual learning (PBSL): a transformative model for Islamic Religious Education in elementary schools1
Truth as Aletheia in the Godly Play approach to religious education: a phenomenological reflection1
Sanitised, essentialised and Eurocentric: an analysis of the (mis)representation of Christian beliefs about homosexuality and African Christianity in English RE textbooks1
RE teachers and the challenges of digital didactics during the coronavirus pandemic in Poland1
Re-imagining the religious education teacher1
Pedagogue’s fallacy and pedagogue’s parsimony1
The legacy of community cohesion: exploring the teacher agency of beginner RE teachers1
Death in Qur’an courses for 4–6 year-olds: a critical analysis of teaching programmes and teacher’s books1
Critical Islamic educational leadership: investigating how Islamic pedagogic models shape leadership practices1
Religious education in French private schools: Categories, conflations, and inequities1
New cultures of online and social-media-based religious and spiritual education for young adults: resilience, coping and wellness1
Characteristics of a Josephite approach to education evident in the leadership practices of principals and their leadership teams1
Christian-Muslim dialogue: encounter and co-existence1
Critique of religion and critical thinking in religious education1
Inclusion in tahfiz-based schooling: participation, constraint, and everyday adaptation1
Education for Buddhist Modernism: Buddhicised education and reform in Hong Kong schools0
Transformation of Islamic education curriculum based on the thoughts of three educational philosophers: a systematic literature review0
Perceptions of pre-service and graduate early childhood and primary teachers regarding their confidence in teaching Religious Education in Catholic primary schools0
Teaching by One’s Own Example in Confucian and Buddhist thought: an empirical study of moral formation in higher education0
Struggling for relevance: exploring editors’ perceived importance and value of religious education in school0
Karagoz shadow plays as an artistic-pedagogical tool in teaching Islam0
The self, civic virtue, and public life interdisciplinary perspectives0
Religious tolerance in Saudi Arabia’s middle school Islamic studies0
Teaching religion in postmodern society: some insights from the German “Carousel of Concepts” for the renewal of Catholic religious education in Poland0
The Christian concept of forgiveness and religious education facing the problem of individualism0
Beyond the barriers of deficit orientedness? Comparing distinct teacher approaches of parental involvement0
“I guess that’s how I kind of slipped into it!” Experienced teachers teaching religious education (RE) as an out-of-field subject in Australian Catholic rural and regional schools0
On the meta-hermeneutics of integrative RWE – a principled argument0
Transformative Islamic education in conflict-prone plural societies: a holistic pedagogical model from Papua, Indonesia0
Organised and personal worldviews revisited. Advancing a concept for religious and worldview education0
Religion, church, national identity, and the solidarity movement in school history textbooks in Poland0
Pedagogy of tolerance and violence prevention in the Arab world0
Greek Easter, superdiversity and religious understanding in early childhood: a small-scale study in a Greek kindergarten0
Religious education textbook assessment in Indonesia: a multi-faith approach to religious moderation0
Islamic studies in European higher education: navigating academic and confessional approaches0
Sustaining church attendance and a positive attitude toward Christianity among students at Church of England voluntary primary schools: effects of parental church attendance and the perceived Christia0
Teaching religious attitudes towards same-sex relationships: a critical reflection on religious education curricula0
Ethnicity, religion, and Muslim education in a changing world navigating contemporary perspectives on multicultural schooling in the UK0
A flexible value carrier: reframing Buddhist Education in superdiverse Hong Kong0
Between belief and disbelief, between religion and secularity: introducing non-doxasticism and semi-secularity in worldview education0
Blurred lines and sacred texts: boundary work of ultra-orthodox women teaching Tanakh in non-orthodox Jewish schools in the United States0
Religion, human rights, and educational paradigms in Southeast Asia: insights from the Malaysian context0
Unveiling the intersection of technology and pedagogy: a domain-specific exploration for developing religious moderation content with an exploratory and Rasch Perspective0
Teachers’ perspectives on tolerance education in Indonesian high schools0
Religious toleration, peace and the docutube method: integrating filmmaking in religious and moral education0
Drinking from our own wells in Ghana: interfaith education, civic engagement, and resisting the anti-LGBT agenda0
From Filipino values to virtues: proposing a reflexive practice framework for religious teacher education in the Philippines0
Secularism as non-theocracy. Brazil’s confessional religious education in public schools0
How are we learning this for?0
Religion and worldviews: the triumph of the secular in religious education (1st ed.)0
What crisis?0
Religion, values and ethics: transformational religious education in Wales?0
Wellbeing in Islamic schools: nurturing the mind, body and soul0
Studying Islam in the Arab world: the rupture between religion and the social sciences0
Addressing controversial issues in religious education by enacting and rehearsing democracy through Forum Theatre: student perspectives0
360-video as ethnographic material in the classroom: student teachers’ reflection on representations with 360-videos from Mecca0
Teachers’ job satisfaction: religious and secular schools in Israel0
Shaping hearts and minds? Political common sense and educators’ responses to populist religious discourse and policy in Turkey0
The Routledge International Handbook of the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care0
Religious education and culture in Zambia0
The RE-searchers Approach: an exposition of methodologically oriented religious education through metaphor, analogy and allegory0
Teaching religion in secondary schools: does it still make sense?0
Peace education, religious discourse, and scientific enquiry: dialogue and collaboration from Eastern European contexts0
Female role models in school religious education and their perception by female students in the final years of secondary school0
Teaching the unseen: a systematic review of metaphysical learning in early childhood across religious and secular contexts0
The professional identity of Jewish thought teachers in Israel’s state religious education system0
Taoism, teaching and learning: a nature-based approach to education and learning0
The impact of biospheric values and religious obligations on environmentally sustainable behaviour, does Islamic education matter? (A moderated-mediated model)0
Teaching religious and worldviews education creatively0
Incorporating religious moderation values into the Islamic religious education curriculum in secondary education: a systematic review of goals, experiences, methods, and evaluation0
Critical analysis of religious representation in Chinese geography textbooks in the context of version superdiversity0
Human rights thinking in Islamic religious education: a content analysis of Saudi middle school curricula0
A methodological turn in RE0
Religious education in Malawi and Ghana: perspectives on religious misrepresentation and misclusion0
Research-led insights into supporting the faith of children and young people today0
Gender constructions in Austrian RE textbooks – a comparative linguistic textbook analysis0
Rationalism vs. textualism: a comparative analysis of Islamic pedagogical approaches in Iran and Saudi Arabia0
Philosophy and religious education in public schools0
Muslim college students’ attitudes towards religious others: a qualitative exploration0
Two kinds of hope0
The intersection of faith, spirituality and interreligious engagement in Catholic schools: teachers’ perspectives from Ireland and South Korea0
Recontextualisation of religious moderation teaching for strengthening the identity of Islam Nusantara: lessons learned from faculty in Indonesia0
Trans* in the Roman Catholic Church, its theology and denominational religious education: a change of perspective is needed0
Beyond rote learning: a scoping review of the education-related effects of Quran memorisation0
What is reflexivity? A scoping review of reflexivity and related concepts in Religious Education0
Whose Christianity? The influence of a majority culture in Swedish textbooks0
Moral leadership development in Indonesian Islamic boarding schools: a comparative study of two pesantren0
Perceptions of, and beliefs about spirituality in Spanish primary and early education teachers0
Patterns of parental involvement in schools of religious communities. A systematic review0
From acting as a crutch to activating as a catalyst: a spectrum of responses from Irish adults regarding religious education and faith development in COVID times0
Pedagogy and purpose0
Review of Islamic Religious education in the current discourse: empirical insights in a plural society,0
Maintaining Catholic identity in a superdiverse Filipino Catholic university: realities, challenges, and opportunities0
Correction0
Knowledge, authority, and Islamic education in the West: reconfiguring tradition0
Testimonies to justice in a fast-changing world0
Crafting a living tradition for a modern metropolis: a study of a Taoist education scheme in Hong Kong0
Hardened hearts and cries for freedom: interpreting biblical narratives in a pandemic0
Religious women: a feminist ethics of care, caring and care-giving0
Strategic integration: non-formal Catholic religious education in contemporary rural China0
Exploring religious content instruction in China: a case study of junior high school geography education0
The possibility of a truth-beyond-being and givenness: engaging the work of Jean-Luc Marion in the hermeneutics of religious education0
Pandemic impact as worldview and paradigm clashes between science and society and between science and politics. Is there a role for pedagogy of science and worldview education?0
Blending technology into the teaching of religious and national values in federal government colleges in Nigeria0
What lessons are drawn from Scripture in Romanian Orthodox religious education textbooks? A content analysis of their curricular and pedagogical framing (Grades I–VIII)0
Myths and misunderstandings: how religious Education contributed to vaccine hesitancy among Nigerian Christian students0
The lived religious beliefs and experiences of English Hindu teenagers at home and at school0
Teaching about secular worldviews0
Scientometric analysis of publications in journals dedicated to the course ‘Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics’0
When worldviews become political: politicised Christianity and the limits of pluralism in religious education0
Tracking the evolution of citizenship and religious education studies: a bibliometric analysis (2015–2025)0
Analyzing Pakistan’s national curriculum textbooks in religious-based construction and demonisation of ‘other’ for high schools0
Ultra-Orthodox parents’ perspectives on applying learningtechnologies in elementary schools0
‘Justice before god’: critical Islamic education based on the work of Tariq Ramadan0
Teaching religious education as if the world mattered0
Between identity and ideology: tradition and criticism among religious Bible teachers in Israel0
In search of Aquinas in Middle-earth: pedagogical potentials for Thomistic virtue ethics through The Lord of the Rings0
Adapting philosophy for Children for Finnish upper secondary schools: a comparative analysis of philosophy, religious education, and culture, worldviews and ethics0
The absent canon: Islamic philosophy as a missing dimension in religious and ethics education – a perspective from the German school context0
The teachers’ discourse on religion and morality0
Nobody stands nowhere?0
In and out of focus: RE horizons0
Religion and diversity: navigating contemporary challenges in European and global contexts0
State funding for teaching about religion: international perspectives on state aid for schools with a religious character0
Buddhism in Five Minutes (Religion in Five Minutes)0
Positive Psychology and SEL within Islamic religious education: a phenomenological study in Türkiye and the Netherlands0
Ethics education in Berlin: bridging philosophical and religious perspectives0
Religious education and worldview theory0
An educational opportunity for (re)-scripting gender justice as an imperative of faith and citizenship: a South African case0
Knowledge and religious education: a metalogue0
School climate and “comfort in the workplace” of educational teams in private Muslim schools in France0
Releasing financial pressure through released time religious education: the fiscal impact of one released time programme on a state’s funding for public education0
Religious education in a world in chaos0
Spirituality as an articulating axis of religious education and the teaching of philosophy in Chilean public schools0
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