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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The convivial concealment of religion: Navigating religious diversity during meals in early childhood education – A Norwegian case	25
Emmanuel Levinas’s concept of interreligious dialogue: ethics of alterity in the age of religious plurality	11
Depoliticisation of stigma: the drama series Skam (”shame”) as an instance of public religious education	10
Emotional responses of school members and stakeholders from a religious community to a curriculum reform	10
Dialogues between Ivan and Smerdyakov after the murder of their father from The Brothers Karamazov : their educational implications	8
Privileged and non-privileged agencies – education about, into and with social justice in religious education classrooms	7
Equipping educators to teach religious literacy: lessons from a teacher education program in the American South	7
Teachers as facilitators of exploration in lower secondary religious education: classroom perspectives from Norway	7
Weathering the storm. catholic schools facing the Church’s crisis in the last decade in Chile	7
Prospective Islamic Theologians and Islamic religious teachers in Germany: between fundamentalism and reform orientation	7
Rear-mirror view: representation of Islam and Muslims in the RE textbooks	6
Effects of integrating augmented reality into educational board games on students learning Taiwanese folk beliefs	6
Negotiating sexuality in religious education: a scoping review of global research trends (2000–2025)	6
Freedom of belief, the right to withdrawal and Christian religious education in Northern Ireland	5
Towards an integral vision of religious education	5
Islamic religious education and state school policies in France and Senegal	5
RE teachers and the shifting landscape of values education in England	5
The model of religious education in today’s secular and multicultural societies – Post-Confessional Inclusivist Religious Education (PCIRE)	5
Gender representation and sexuality discourses in Sunni and Shia Islamic Studies textbooks (Grades 7–8) in Ontario, Canada	5
Shaped by the story: narrative theology, storytelling and Christian Religious Education	5
Faith-informed character: the role of religion in university students’ processing and resolution of moral challenges	4
Who studies Religious Education? Understanding young people’s perceptions of religion, religious identity and religious education in England	4
Perceptions of science, religion and spirituality in high school students: an empirical approach	4
A reconstruction of the international standards of religious education of juveniles in correctional institutions	4
Reviewing the place of Humanism in religious education	4

Ineffable education, the uncommunicable and the uncommunicated	4
Unveiling the taboos: examining the role of culture and religion in sex education in India	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
What is the point of ministry among children, youth and families? Examination of aims and activities from different perspectives	4
Talaba-e-madaris and madrasas in India: a narrative research	3
Listening to the voices of religious education professionals: the relationship between technology and religious education	3
Little theologians: children, culture, and the making of theological meaning	3
The role of Islamic education teachers in enhancing higher-order thinking: a systematic review	3
Navigating superdiversity in Catholic and Muslim religious education in Norway	3
Faith in science, implicit religion and antipathy to religions: a study among Christian and non-religious students	3
Students’ critical awareness of the internet and social media use as resources for Islamic learning in Indonesian public senior high schools	3
An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent	3
Activating reflexivity: supporting professional development for preservice teachers in religious education	3
Exploring ‘diversity’ and ‘pluralism’: a sociological analysis of religious education textbooks In the ‘Islamic Republic’ of Iran	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
The professional identity of elementary school rabbis in the national-religious education system in Israel	3
Navigating the intersection: philosophy and religious education in China’s elementary public schools	3
Spirituality for interculturality: under what conditions?	2
Working towards improved collaboration: reviewing provision and support for Christian parents/carers	2
Religious moderation in Islamic education as an approach to preventing sexual harassment: implementation analysis in Indonesian madrasahs	2
Bridging the divide: casuistry and the integration of religious and philosophical ethics in RE	2
Humankind as the Image of God: a cognitive semantic application of Genesis 1:1–2:3 in the classroom	2
Beyond knowledge-centred versus student-centred RE	2
A case study of primary students’ perspectives of engagement in interreligious learning and teaching: a community of learners	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
Addressing religious and worldview diversity in welfare and care profession education? Reflections based on a faith-based higher education initiative in Norway	2
Rebuilding ministry in UK state schools: investigating how pandemic disruption may effect positive change	2
Has the English baccalaureate ‘killed off’ RE?	2
Sex education and religion - resistance and possibilities	2
Religious education: learning what from studying religions?	2
Meeting the majority religion. Majority church field trips and educational equality in Norwegian RE	2
Re-imagining senior secondary religious education: evaluating the religion, meaning, and life curriculum	2
Teachers’ conceptualisations of religion as a concept and as a subject for teaching: a problematisation	2
Factors affecting religious tolerance and prejudice in school context: a mixed method research synthesis	2
Knowledge in a religion and worldviews approach in English schools	2
The impact of critical thinking dispositions on tolerance and encountering differences: a study of RE teacher candidates in Turkey	2
‘This religion is not…’: Norwegian upper secondary students’ secular imaginations of religion through via negativa statements	2
The British Journal of Religious Education (BJRE) at 90	2
Learning with(in) religious tradition. Navigating the existential in Islamic religious education	2