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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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Religious literacy: a way forward for religious education?	21
An investigation into secondary teachers’ views of argumentation in science and religious education	15
Religious literacy in the curriculum in compulsory education in Austria, Scotland and Sweden - a three-country policy comparison	13
The pandemic and the feminisation of the Church? How male and female churchgoers experienced the Church of England’s response to Covid-19	12
Religious literacy: spaces of teaching and learning about religion and belief	11
Motherhood enjambed: birth stories, ritual, and Implicit Religion	10
Religious identity commitments of emerging adults raised in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands	8
Lockdown worship in the Church of England: predicting affect responses to leading or accessing online and in-church services	8
Gratitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of spirituality among Filipinos	7
Values, lifestyles, and narratives of prejudices amongst Finnish youth	6
Leading school with diverse worldviews: Finnish principals’ perceptions	6
Recent attacks on character education in a UK context: a case of mistaken identities?	5
Workplace spirituality and organizational citizenship behavior among teachers in bahrain: commitment as a mediator	5
The lasting legacy of the European Reformation of the 16th century: Protestant foundations of modern educational reasoning	5
The Holly Bough Service at Liverpool Cathedral: a location and occasion for encounter?	5
Virtues and values education in schools: a study in an international sample	4
Student religious attitudes and global citizenship antecedents, identification, and outcomes in a Filipino sample	4
Discernment as predictor for transformational leadership: a study of school leaders in Catholic schools in India	4
The role of spiritual intelligence and dispositional forgiveness in predicting episodic forgiveness	4
Categorising interfaith learning objectives: a scoping review	3
RE leader connectedness: a theology of the lived reality of Catholic education	3
‘Here today, gone tomorrow’: the risks and rewards of port chaplaincy	3
‘Twofold otherness’: on religion, spirituality, and home schooling in the Czech Republic	3
Reframing phenomenological approaches in religious education: insights from affect theory and the aesthetics of religion	3
Values in the geometry and measurement unit of the Palestinian Grade six mathematics book	3

Educational rationality and religious education in Polish public schools	3
An elephant in the room: university chaplains cultivating healthy religious diversity through respectful dialogue	3
Student perceptions of a trial Religious Education curriculum: establishing baseline data	3
Translating secular-religious divide: everyday negotiation of Christian distinctiveness in Catholic schools in the Czechia and Slovakia	3
Is worldview education achieved in schools? A study of Finnish teachers’ perceptions of worldview education as a component of basic education	3
‘Will my child have their own faith?’ Exploring the impact of parental beliefs on childhood faith nurture	3
Transmitting religious values through online religious communities: case study of Pakistani Shia mothers’ home education	2
A Daoist interpretation of perspective-taking	2
Current debates about (inter-)religious literacy and assessments of the outcomes of religious education: two approaches to religion-related knowledge in critical review	2
Enhancing inclusivity and diversity among cathedral visitors: the Brecon Jazz Festival and psychographic segmentation	2
Why RE’s radical reform could fail: The politics of epistemology and the economics of producer capture	2
Educate the child according to his own way: a Jewish ultra-orthodox version of independent self-construal	2
Transitioning from decades of segregation: religiosity and the attitudes towards intellectual disability in Romania	2
Educational polyphony for a contemplative under tragic tension: implications from the early life of Smerdyakov in The Brothers Karamazov	2
Exploring the enablers, tensions, and sectoral responses to embedding core values within publicly managed schools in Ireland	2
Explaining the relationship between religiosity and increased wellbeing avoidance of identity threat as a key factor	2
Evaluating the learning outcomes of interfaith initiatives: a systematic literature review	2
Localisation of Christianity in China: difficulties in and possibilities of achieving harmonious cultural integration	2
Teachers’ experiences of spirituality in Swiss secular high schools – an interpretative phenomenological analysis	2
Forgiveness and its value from the perspective of educational relationship	2
Education, religion, and LGBTQ+ in Australia	2
Examining the predictors of teachers’ organisational citizenship behaviour from an individual perspective: the role of human values – benevolence, achievement, self-direction and conformity	2
The role of teachers’ religious beliefs in their classroom practice – a personal or public concern?	2
Values manifested in life purposes of higher education students in the Netherlands and Finland	2
Reimagining Fowler’s Stages of Faith: shifting from a seven stage to a four step framework for faith development	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
Cyber-victimisation and cyber-bullying: the mediation role of the dispositional forgiveness in female and male adolescents	2
Love for Allah and love for others: exploring the connection between religious affect and empathy among Muslim adolescents in England	2
Between confessionality and openness. Religious education in polish complementary schools in Great Britain	2
Changing voices: the changing discourse of ‘religion’ and ‘implicit religious’ language	2
Adaptation and preliminary evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Polish version of the gratitude/awe questionnaire (GrAw-7)	1
Conditions for identity development among religious immigrant youth	1
A response to Mark Chater’s: why RE’s radical reform could fail: the politics of epistemology and the economics of producer capture	1
The relationship between spiritual well-being and game addiction of youths: a cross-sectional study	1
Is safe space safe? Being gay and college faculty across religious moral communities	1
Gender, civic engagement, and the importance of integrating spirituality	1
The inclusivity of Anglican cathedrals and the coronation of King Charles III: embracing explicit religion, civic religion, and implicit religion	1
The psychological-type profile of cathedral worshippers	1
Space, the universe and everything : listening to visitors to the Luxmuralis son et lumiere installation at Liverpool Cathedral in 2022	1
Restive spirits seeking release: the Implicit Religion of the Grateful Dead	1
Implicit religion: reshaping the boundary between the religious and the secular?	1
Response to Trevor Cooling and Marius Felderhof	1
Prosociality, religiosity and values in adolescence: comparing the impact of religious and general schooling in Turkey	1
Changing values and religiosity: the case of the emerging Community movement in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland	1
Assessing the impact of the student voice project on shaping the ethos of Anglican primary schools: a study focusing on the Diocese of Llandaff	1
Stereotypes and meta-stereotypes among Finnish Muslim- and Christian-background youth	1
Values and identities in Iranian primary school social studies textbooks: a discursive approach	1
Towards religious literacy in South African schools: is the Life Orientation curriculum potent enough?	1
Teaching Christian values in a professional school using Good Samaritan model	1
Preaching on the Bible and engaging with science during the Cathedral Christmas Eve carol services: listening to the congregation’s response	1

Young adults in relationships and singles: religiosity and the structure of values	1
Development ofXin-Yang 信仰scale: understanding spirituality among Chinese college students	1
The social contribution of an urban cathedral: the vision of Coventry Cathedral in the 1960s	1
Radical reform in RE – a response to Mark Chater	1
More intercultural sensitivity, less cyberbullying: the role of religious education among high-school students	1
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	1
Pantheon research, practical theology, and cathedral studies	1
Data and debate in science and faith: exploring and extending Ecklund’s research programme	1
‘It is never good. Really, it’s just never good’: a dominant theme in the life story accounts of strictly Reformed-raised emerging adults about their religious identity development	1
Growth in patience in Christian Moral Wisdom and contemporary positive psychology	1
Mediating role of communion, agency, and private practice on the relationship of spiritual experience and prosocial behavior of the Catholic Youth in the Philippines	1
Anglican cathedrals as episcopal theological resource churches for nurturing growth and sustainability	1
Religiosity and recognition: multiculturalism and British converts to Islam	1
Evincing the soul of a city	1
Learning from laughter: Implicit Religion, satire, and power in two British TV situation comedies	1
Editorial: reforming religious education	1
The diffused religious choice when applying for a university degree in Sydney	1
The social value of music during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the benefits of online music participation for social capital, education, belonging and wellbeing	1
Kairos moments and serendipitous insights: lived experiences of children as a means of grace in the Godly Play room	1
How forgiveness relieves anxiety: the role of differentiation of self	1
Perceived hypocrisy and deconversion in adolescents. The mediating role of irrational beliefs and identity styles	1
Social anxiety, social comparison, self-consciousness, and deconversion in adolescents: a path analysis approach	1
Social networks, attachment and integration: understanding the church attendance of Romanian migrants	1
A last word to Mark Chater, Trevor Cooling and Marius Felderhof from an educationalist	1
Christian faith-based youth work: systematic narrative review	1
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	1