OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Religious Education is 1. 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
Dialogues between Ivan and Smerdyakov after the murder of their father from The Brothers Karamazov : their educational implications	10
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case	7
Privileged and non-privileged agencies – education about, into and with social justice in religious education classrooms	7
Crisis, controversy and the future of religious education	5
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation	5
Shaped by the story: narrative theology, storytelling and Christian Religious Education	4
Depoliticisation of stigma: the drama series Skam (”shame”) as an instance of public religious education	4
The model of religious education in today’s secular and multicultural societies – Post-Confessional Inclusivist Religious Education (PCIRE)	4
Weathering the storm. catholic schools facing the Church’s crisis in the last decade in Chile	4
Islamic religious education and state school policies in France and Senegal	4
Rear-mirror view: representation of Islam and Muslims in the RE textbooks	4
Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of interreligious dialogue: ethics of alterity in the age of religious plurality	4
Reviewing the place of Humanism in religious education	3
A reconstruction of the international standards of religious education of juveniles in correctional institutions	3
Perceptions of science, religion and spirituality in high school students: an empirical approach	3
“Minority within minority” or a “minority of two majorities”: religious education and the making of Christian identity in Israel	3
How could the Norwegian RE subject express the presence of human rights thinking in Islam?	3
Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated	3
RE teachers and the shifting landscape of values education in England	3
Religious education before the ECtHR: the opt-out clause does not suffice anymore	3
Exploring ‘diversity’ and ‘pluralism’: a sociological analysis of religious education textbooks In the ‘Islamic Republic’ of Iran	3
Faith in science, implicit religion and antipathy to religions: a study among Christian and non-religious students	2
Rebuilding ministry in UK state schools: investigating how pandemic disruption may effect positive change	2
Teachers’ conceptualisations of religion as a concept and as a subject for teaching: a problematisation	2
The role of Islamic education teachers in enhancing higher-order thinking: a systematic review	2

Students’ critical awareness of the internet and social media use as resources for Islamic learning in Indonesian public senior high schools	2
An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent	2
The professionalisation of Islamic religious education teachers	2
On the Formulation of a Standardised Evangelical Apologetics Youth Curriculum	2
Working towards improved collaboration: reviewing provision and support for Christian parents/carers	2
Tensions between inclusion and change in worldview education: can Joe F. Kincheloe’s bricolage help teachers navigate them?	2
The professional identity of elementary school rabbis in the national-religious education system in Israel	2
Cultivating a just habitus through intercultural wisdom of women	2
Factors affecting religious tolerance and prejudice in school context: a mixed method research synthesis	2
The ‘world religions paradigm’ as the organising principle of didactic action—a case study	2
Talaba-e-madaris and madrasas in India: a narrative research	2
Little theologians: children, culture, and the making of theological meaning	2
Religious education: learning what from studying religions?	1
Islamic Emancipation as alternative Maarifa in education: decoloniality as a holy mission	1
Values of the religion curriculum in Spanish compulsory secondary education	1
Has the English baccalaureate ‘killed off’ RE?	1
COVID-19 and religious education reimagined: discovering a reflective space through Hannah Arendt’s concept of thinking	1
Solitude and selflessness and the cultivation of humanity in liberal and religious education	1
Enhancing learners’ motivation and engagement in religious education classes at elementary levels	1
The variety of worldview profiles among Finnish upper secondary school students: a latent class analysis	1
Sex education and religion - resistance and possibilities	1
A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners	1
Bridging the research–practice gap on Facebook: a study of online communication between RE teachers and researchers	1
Knowledge in a religion and worldviews approach in English schools	1
Humankind as the Image of God: a cognitive semantic application of genesis 1:1–2:3 in the classroom	1
Functions of crisis in religious education discourse since 1975. A critical corpus-assisted analysis	1
The making of Sikh student: Ethnographic study of a minority school in Delhi	1
Religious education and the Anglo-world: the impact of empire, Britishness, and decolonialisation in Australia, Canada and New Zealand	1
Decolonising religious education through the prism of affect theory: analytical perspectives for approaching Islamophobia in curriculum and pedagogy	1
Quantified secularism? Counting religious conflicts in French state schools since the 1980s	1
Leading learning for a recontextualising approach in religious education	1
Meeting the majority religion. Majority church field trips and educational equality in Norwegian RE	1
Research in and for religious education	1
European Court of Human Rights’ judgements and compulsory religious education in Turkey	1
Critique of religion and critical thinking in religious education	1
Conceptualising religion and worldviews for the school opportunities, challenges, and complexities of a transition from religious education in England and beyond	1
Is there a place for young children in the modern-day UK church? Investigating approaches to faith nurture in the early years	1
National, international and supranational perspectives on religious education, law and the judiciary: past, present and future	1
Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE	1