OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Religious 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of interreligious dialogue: ethics of alterity in the age of religious plurality	30
Emotional responses of school members and stakeholders from a religious community to a curriculum reform	12
Equipping educators to teach religious literacy: lessons from a teacher education program in the American South	11
Dialogues between Ivan and Smerdyakov after the murder of their father from The Brothers Karamazov : their educational implications	11
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 beliefs	10
Weathering the storm. catholic schools facing the Church’s crisis in the last decade in Chile	9
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation	8
Teachers as facilitators of exploration in lower secondary religious education: classroom perspectives from Norway	8
Islamic religious education and state school policies in France and Senegal	7
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case	7
Facilitating multidimensional engagement using the historical-critical approach	7
Shaped by the story: narrative theology, storytelling and Christian Religious Education	7
Depoliticisation of stigma: the drama series Skam (”shame”) as an instance of public religious education	7
Rear-mirror view: representation of Islam and Muslims in the RE textbooks	6
Who studies Religious Education? Understanding young people’s perceptions of religion, religious identity and religious education in England	6
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 education	6
RE teachers and the shifting landscape of values education in England	6
What is the point of ministry among children, youth and families? Examination of aims and activities from different perspectives	5
Faith-informed character: the role of religion in university students’ processing and resolution of moral challenges	5
Freedom of belief, the right to withdrawal and Christian religious education in Northern Ireland	5
Unveiling the taboos: examining the role of culture and religion in sex education in India	5
Gender representation and sexuality discourses in Sunni and Shia Islamic Studies textbooks (Grades 7–8) in Ontario, Canada	5
Beyond memorization: cultivating holistic excellence through a multidisciplinary tahfiz curriculum in Indonesian pesantren	5

An evaluation of the effectiveness of Reformed Christian schooling in terms of academic contingent self-worth: an American case in the late 1980s	5
Reviewing the place of Humanism in religious education	5
A reconstruction of the international standards of religious education of juveniles in correctional institutions	5
Exploring ‘diversity’ and ‘pluralism’: a sociological analysis of religious education textbooks In the ‘Islamic Republic’ of Iran	4
Faith in science, implicit religion and antipathy to religions: a study among Christian and non-religious students	4
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 approach	4
Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated	4
Navigating the intersection: philosophy and religious education in China’s elementary public schools	4
Talaba-e-madaris and madrasas in India: a narrative research	3
Bridging the divide: casuistry and the integration of religious and philosophical ethics in RE	3
Working towards improved collaboration: reviewing provision and support for Christian parents/carers	3
Rebuilding ministry in UK state schools: investigating how pandemic disruption may effect positive change	3
Listening to the voices of religious education professionals: the relationship between technology and religious education	3
Students’ critical awareness of the internet and social media use as resources for Islamic learning in Indonesian public senior high schools	3
Little theologians: children, culture, and the making of theological meaning	3
Addressing religious and worldview diversity in welfare and care profession education? Reflections based on a faith-based higher education initiative in Norway	3
The role of Islamic education teachers in enhancing higher-order thinking: a systematic review	3
The professional identity of elementary school rabbis in the national-religious education system in Israel	3
Navigating superdiversity in Catholic and Muslim religious education in Norway	3
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 women	3
Activating reflexivity: supporting professional development for preservice teachers in religious education	3
Factors affecting religious tolerance and prejudice in school context: a mixed method research synthesis	3
An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent	3
Transformative islamic education as a resource for religious education in the anthropocene: an eco-social synthesis	3
Meeting the majority religion. Majority church field trips and educational equality in Norwegian RE	2
Measuring religious literacy: towards building an instrument	2
Religious moderation in Islamic education as an approach to preventing sexual harassment: implementation analysis in Indonesian madrasahs	2
The British Journal of Religious Education (BJRE) at 90	2
Re-imagining senior secondary religious education: evaluating the religion, meaning, and life curriculum	2
Knowledge, authority, and Islamic education in the West: reconfiguring tradition	2
Functions of crisis in religious education discourse since 1975. A critical corpus-assisted analysis	2
Humankind as the Image of God: a cognitive semantic application of Genesis 1:1–2:3 in the classroom	2
The construction of collective religious memory through religious education: the (In)visibility of Alevis at schools in the European context	2
The impact of critical thinking dispositions on tolerance and encountering differences: a study of RE teacher candidates in Turkey	2
Has the English baccalaureate ‘killed off’ RE?	2
Teachers’ conceptualisations of religion as a concept and as a subject for teaching: a problematisation	2
Values of the religion curriculum in Spanish compulsory secondary education	2
Islamic Emancipation as alternative Maarifa in education: decoloniality as a holy mission	2
Sex education and religion - resistance and possibilities	2
The contested contribution of Islamic religious education to citizenship education: an analysis of Dutch primary school textbooks	2
Religious education in epistemic superdiversity: combining pluralism with truth-seeking in a shared world	2
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 RE	2
A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners	2
Learning with(in) religious tradition. Navigating the existential in Islamic religious education	2
Knowledge in a religion and worldviews approach in English schools	2
Spirituality for interculturality: under what conditions?	2
Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE	2

‘This religion is not…’: Norwegian upper secondary students’ secular imaginations of religion through via negativa statements	2
Religion, spirituality, or stress management? Mindfulness and meditation in Swedish textbooks for Religious Education and Physical Education and Health	2
Cultural adaptation and validation of the SHALOM-G-CZ instrument for secondary education in the Czech context	2
Recognising non-visible Muslimness: epistemological superdiversity and identity formation in Religious Education	2