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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Beliefs & Values-Studies in Religion & 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Religious imaginations: religious literacy as the reading of signs	21
More intercultural sensitivity, less cyberbullying: the role of religious education among high-school students	14
Listening during Christmas Eve carol services at Liverpool Cathedral: discovering what really matters to service participants	10
‘The beauty of the place and the beauty of the liturgy’: exploring the mission and ministry of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin	10
Correction	10
Forgiveness and its value from the perspective of educational relationship	10
Construction and validation of parental religious training scale for Pakistani Muslim adults	9
The social value of music during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the benefits of online music participation for social capital, education, belonging and wellbeing	9
American college students’ understandings of the good life: a grounded theory	9
Accessing visitor perception of an immersive cathedral experience: applying the Jungian lenses of sensing and intuition and Bailey’s theory of implicit religion	9
Religion and spirituality in social work education and practice: a review and thematic analysis	8
Mission and practice: an exploration of the relationship in a Catholic school in Australia	8
Telling the Christmas story in words and music: the development of and contemporary missional value of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols within cathedrals	8
The relationship between conversion narratives to the self and to the community: a case study of a born again group in the Philippines	7
Parental coping with their child’s abandonment of Jewish Orthodox religious observance in Israel	7
Similar rights, different paths: the organisation of RE in the Flemish and French communities in Belgium	7
The key factors of faith transmission in Lithuanian families	7
Data and debate in science and faith: exploring and extending Ecklund’s research programme	7
Islam as educational knowledge: challenges and barriers to the development of a Religion and Worldviews approach to teaching Islam in schools	7
Exploring religious education teachers’ perspectives on character development and moral virtues, in state-funded, non-faith schools in England	7
Securitised teacher professional identity: Muslim teachers in England	7
Exploring the entanglements of contemporary spirituality, Catholicism, and environmentalism in South Tyrol, Italy: an ethnographic approach	7
Opportunity for RE? A possible vision of the future for Religious Education structures in England, drawing on the implications of Education for All, the UK Government’s 2022 education White Paper	6
Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment	6
Assessing the influence of the home in sustaining church attendance in Anglican children attending Anglican primary schools in the Republic of Ireland	6

Homeland insecurity: the rise and rise of global anti-terrorism law	6
Organisational sensemaking and cultural brokering in U.S. schools: the case of Arabic-speaking Bilingual Resource Specialists	6
Teach the Crisis: arguments for teaching the Cartoon Crisis in primary school	6
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 1)	6
Monitoring shifts in adolescent spiritual health between 2009 and 2023: a case study in Greater Manchester	6
Beyond boundaries: unravelling the journey of multi-religious education in Malaysia	6
Engaging with the science of cathedral studies: an invitation to the Catholic Church in England and Wales	6
Perceived hypocrisy and deconversion in adolescents. The mediating role of irrational beliefs and identity styles	6
Argument in religious studies at GCSE: a collaborative developmental research project	6
Will the children have faith in the post-pandemic era? Investigating models of children’s faith formation in a world changed by pandemic experiences	5
Representing, rewriting and intervening: the perils and joys of creating an alternative curriculum on science and religion	5
Rediscovering faith and family connections: a study of University students’ engagement in online catechesis	5
Reframing phenomenological approaches in religious education: insights from affect theory and the aesthetics of religion	4
Cyber-victimisation and cyber-bullying: the mediation role of the dispositional forgiveness in female and male adolescents	4
City cathedrals resourcing rural churchgoers: a study on the impact of the Exploring the Sunday Gospel programme	4
Teaching Islam in the RE classroom: a view from the edge	4
‘Scientifying’ spirituality or spiritualising biomedicine? Exploring the interplay in healthcare practices in Argentina and Spain	4
The ‘image of God’ and the schooling of virtue: Christian-ethos schools of character for the whole community	4
Art as theological fusion: the Cathedral’s role in lighting the creative fuse	4
Enhancing inclusivity and diversity among cathedral visitors: the Brecon Jazz Festival and psychographic segmentation	4
Praying for peace: a study of visitors’ prayers offered at Liverpool Cathedral	4
Integrating sustainability into religious education	4
Evolution and origins: Israeli Bible education experts on teaching the intersection of science and religion	4
The Polish validation of the interpersonal generosity scale	4
Exploring ethical decision-making in Chinese early childhood teachers	4
Muslims as a suspect community: a typology to support classroom discussions	3
The right to opt out: a comparative analysis of exemption schemes in Scandinavian public schools and the impact of cultural bias	3
The influence of STEM discipline and environment on UK and US university students’ belief development	3
The role of religion in ethnic minority youth’s civic agency: theoretical considerations and a case study from Finland	3
Anglican cathedrals as episcopal theological resource churches for nurturing growth and sustainability	3
Teachers’ constructions of mutual respect and tolerance through the lens of Religious Education: fundamental British values – propaganda or longstanding aims of RE?	3
I say a little prayer for my singlehood: exploring the role of prayer for single adults’ mental health	3
Research on family moral education in Chinese pedagogy textbooks	3
Mediating role of communion, agency, and private practice on the relationship of spiritual experience and prosocial behavior of the Catholic Youth in the Philippines	3
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 3)	3
Use of the MMPI-2 and 16PF-5 in predicting perseverance in the order and changes in personality during religious life: a longitudinal study of Polish Catholic nuns	3
A virtue-based measurement of integral formation. The questionnaire of competencies and cardinal virtues (QCV)	3
Religious education and the interior life	2
Drawing on the concept of implicit religion and psychological type theory: shaping a cathedral congregation survey and listening to diverse voices	2
Religious education to develop respect for plurality in Indonesia	2
The prayer experience of youngsters using augmentative and alternative communication in haredi (Jewish ultra-orthodox) educational settings	2
A temple to memory: peace and war together within a strange intertwining. Stepping again into the Memorial Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral	2
Proselytising and pastoral care: chaplains in Australian government schools	2
The other side of the coin: do the benefits of being a Christian postgraduate at a secular university in England contribute to student wellbeing?	2
Roles of religious music and religious well-being in the relationship between fundamentalism and subjective well-being among Korean Christians	2
Localities and regions in religions and worldviews education: introduction to the special issue	2
Non-religious pupils in religious education: an exploration of their specific learning conditions	2
Impacts of religious secondary schools in Hong Kong on student attitudes towards school life	2
Philosophies of Catholic education linking neo-scholastic legacies and contemporary concerns	2
Religious struggles and mental health in the Polish population during the COVID-19 pandemic. Mediation effects of resilience as an “ability to bounce back”	2

Is there a place for environmental education in religious education in Türkiye?	2
Space, the universe and everything : listening to visitors to the Luxmuralis son et lumiere installation at Liverpool Cathedral in 2022	2
Religion in cathedrals: pilgrimage, place, heritage, and the politics of replication	2
Deeply Christian and serving the common good? A survey of Anglican cathedral provision for schools	2
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 2)	2
Jesus, the Bible and ‘I feel like I should be left-leaning’: the liberalising effect of sociology and diffused religion in Australian non-university faith-based higher education	2
And to thine own self be true: ideological tensions of Orthodox Bible teachers in pluralistic schools	2
‘Believing in planets doesn’t oppress anyone’: queer agency, belief, and wellbeing among transgender migrants in Spain	2
Understanding hijab-wearing behaviour among female university students: an empirical examination of cultural influence, family influence, and personal preference	2
Social anxiety, social comparison, self-consciousness, and deconversion in adolescents: a path analysis approach	2
Between worship, learning and musical practice: mapping the shifting functions of the contemporary cathedral	1
Reframing controversy: a performative perspective on controversial issues in education about religions and worldviews	1
‘The whole point of faith is not to know’: Jewish ultra-Orthodox students’ epistemological beliefs about science and religion	1
Cultural capital and the potential of RE: insider perspectives from trainee teachers	1
The mediating role of spiritual well-being in the relationship between patience and meaning of life in parents of children with special needs	1
Current debates about (inter-)religious literacy and assessments of the outcomes of religious education: two approaches to religion-related knowledge in critical review	1
Preaching on the Bible and engaging with science during the Cathedral Christmas Eve carol services: listening to the congregation’s response	1
Spirituality and religiosity in the developing person	1
Are cathedrals the arks of today? Some reflections on cathedral mission and spiritual seekers	1
How does the social unrest of 2020/21 affect the teaching of Religious Education? Findings of a European study on the effects of the COVID-19 period	1
‘ Alone Australia ’, nature connection and spiritual complexity in popular culture	1
Benevolent and spiritual – undergraduate social care students’ identification with religious beliefs and moral virtues in a Finnish context	1
Saints and shrines as ‘contested heritage’ and the case of Norwich Cathedral	1
Neo-Mexican home altars: daily reconnections with the spirit of nature	1
Assessing visitor evaluation of an immersive cathedral experience: applying the Jungian lenses of feeling and thinking	1
Lockdown worship in the Church of England: predicting affect responses to leading or accessing online and in-church services	1
Roots and routes: towards a pedagogy of worldliness	1
‘There are two types of faith’: exploring young Portuguese people’s participation in world youth day	1
Systematic literature review – unpacking values. How values change over time and link with personality traits and behaviours	1
American and Moroccan undergraduates encounter religious difference: an exploratory study	1
Muslim teachers’ voices on citizenship education: negotiating faith and democracy	1
Mindfulness and ethos: compatibility, challenges and opportunities in the Irish Catholic primary school	1
‘Constructing the test to the teaching’ – and the complexities of assessing learning in ethics education	1
Adaptation and preliminary evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the gratitude/awe questionnaire (GrAw-7)	1
Spirituality of singers: contrasting approaches to the making of meaning	1
Assessing the impact of a cathedral pre-Christmas son et lumiere on participants’ psychological wellbeing and spiritual health	1
Latter-day Saint women and leadership in higher education: an intrinsic case study	1
Desiring God and Christian Hedonism: awakening an immanent joy	1
Diversity in Islam in British RE	1
The psychological type profile of young adult members of the Student Christian Movement compared with church congregations	1
Stereotypes and meta-stereotypes among Finnish Muslim- and Christian-background youth	1
Adaptation and psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) by Paloutzian and Ellison	1
Religious feelings in early and late adulthood	1
Science outcomes and Christianity in the United States: the functions of stereotype threat and trust	1
‘It’s how God speaks to us’: the perceived voice and agency of God in Church of England primary schools	1
Evangelical Christians score higher than non-evangelicals on public, but not on private, commitments to morality	1
Traditionalist Catholic sensibilities in Argentinean Catholicism: modern risks and (con)spirituality in contemporary Catholic communities	1
Values manifested in life purposes of higher education students in the Netherlands and Finland	1
Reimagining the accidentally local in English RE	1
The role of teachers’ religious beliefs in their classroom practice – a personal or public concern?	1
Assessing visitor responses to Luke Jerram’s Gaia installation in Lincoln Cathedral: prayers and well wishes for the world	1
Nature-connection and creation care in Australia: intertwining Indigenous, Christian and holistic spiritualities	1
Spirituality, wellbeing and risks in contemporary societies	1
The relationship between spiritual well-being and game addiction of youths: a cross-sectional study	1
Returning to the sacred spring? Spa treatments, mineral springs and spirituality in settler Australia since 1852	1
A narrative inquiry of the intergenerational transmission of cultural family values in mainland China	1
Using Claude Romano’s ‘evential phenomenology’ to reflect on moments of grace and hope during the pandemic	1
A last word to Mark Chater, Trevor Cooling and Marius Felderhof from an educationalist	1
The Bloomsbury handbook of religious education in the Global South	1
VR in RE and moral education: report from a conference symposium at the NCRE 2022	1
Reading Romans in light of social identity theory	1