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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case	15
Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of interreligious dialogue: ethics of alterity in the age of religious plurality	14
Privileged and non-privileged agencies – education about, into and with social justice in religious education classrooms	12
Weathering the storm. catholic schools facing the Church’s crisis in the last decade in Chile	10
Depoliticisation of stigma: the drama series Skam (”shame”) as an instance of public religious education	8
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation	8
Dialogues between Ivan and Smerdyakov after the murder of their father from The Brothers Karamazov : their educational implications	8
Rear-mirror view: representation of Islam and Muslims in the RE textbooks	6
Islamic religious education and state school policies in France and Senegal	5
“Minority within minority” or a “minority of two majorities”: religious education and the making of Christian identity in Israel	5
The model of religious education in today’s secular and multicultural societies – Post-Confessional Inclusivist Religious Education (PCIRE)	5
Religious education before the ECtHR: the opt-out clause does not suffice anymore	5
Reviewing the place of Humanism in religious education	5
Shaped by the story: narrative theology, storytelling and Christian Religious Education	5
RE teachers and the shifting landscape of values education in England	5
A reconstruction of the international standards of religious education of juveniles in correctional institutions	5
Freedom of belief, the right to withdrawal and Christian religious education in Northern Ireland	4
Perceptions of science, religion and spirituality in high school students: an empirical approach	4
Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated	4
Faith in science, implicit religion and antipathy to religions: a study among Christian and non-religious students	4
How could the Norwegian RE subject express the presence of human rights thinking in Islam?	4
What is the point of ministry among children, youth and families? Examination of aims and activities from different perspectives	4
Tensions between inclusion and change in worldview education: can Joe F. Kincheloe’s bricolage help teachers navigate them?	4
Exploring ‘diversity’ and ‘pluralism’: a sociological analysis of religious education textbooks In the ‘Islamic Republic’ of Iran	4
An evaluation of the effectiveness of Reformed Christian schooling in terms of academic contingent self-worth: an American case in the late 1980s	4

Talaba-e-madaris and madrasas in India: a narrative research	4
An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent	3
The professional identity of elementary school rabbis in the national-religious education system in Israel	3
The professionalisation of Islamic religious education teachers	3
Activating reflexivity: supporting professional development for preservice teachers in religious education	3
Cultivating a just habitus through intercultural wisdom of women	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
Little theologians: children, culture, and the making of theological meaning	3
Students’ critical awareness of the internet and social media use as resources for Islamic learning in Indonesian public senior high schools	3
The role of Islamic education teachers in enhancing higher-order thinking: a systematic review	3
Factors affecting religious tolerance and prejudice in school context: a mixed method research synthesis	3
On the Formulation of a Standardised Evangelical Apologetics Youth Curriculum	2
Islamic Emancipation as alternative Maarifa in education: decoloniality as a holy mission	2
Meeting the majority religion. Majority church field trips and educational equality in Norwegian RE	2
Learning with(in) religious tradition. Navigating the existential in Islamic religious education	2
Research in and for religious education	2
Functions of crisis in religious education discourse since 1975. A critical corpus-assisted analysis	2
Teachers’ conceptualisations of religion as a concept and as a subject for teaching: a problematisation	2
The ‘world religions paradigm’ as the organising principle of didactic action—a case study	2
Leading learning for a recontextualising approach in religious education	2
The British Journal of Religious Education (BJRE) at 90	2
Humankind as the Image of God: a cognitive semantic application of genesis 1:1–2:3 in the classroom	2
COVID-19 and religious education reimagined: discovering a reflective space through Hannah Arendt’s concept of thinking	2
Has the English baccalaureate ‘killed off’ RE?	2
Values of the religion curriculum in Spanish compulsory secondary education	2
Knowledge in a religion and worldviews approach in English schools	2
A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners	2
Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE	2
Religious education: learning what from studying religions?	2
Sex education and religion - resistance and possibilities	2