OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Beliefs & Values-Studies in Religion & 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
An investigation into secondary teachers’ views of argumentation in science and religious education	16
The pandemic and the feminisation of the Church? How male and female churchgoers experienced the Church of England’s response to Covid-19	13
Religious literacy: spaces of teaching and learning about religion and belief	11
Motherhood enjambed: birth stories, ritual, and Implicit Religion	10
Lockdown worship in the Church of England: predicting affect responses to leading or accessing online and in-church services	8
Religious identity commitments of emerging adults raised in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands	8
Leading school with diverse worldviews: Finnish principals’ perceptions	7
Gratitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of spirituality among Filipinos	7
Values, lifestyles, and narratives of prejudices amongst Finnish youth	6
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
Recent attacks on character education in a UK context: a case of mistaken identities?	5
The role of spiritual intelligence and dispositional forgiveness in predicting episodic forgiveness	4
Discernment as predictor for transformational leadership: a study of school leaders in Catholic schools in India	4
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
Values in the geometry and measurement unit of the Palestinian Grade six mathematics book	4
RE leader connectedness: a theology of the lived reality of Catholic education	3
Anglican cathedrals as episcopal theological resource churches for nurturing growth and sustainability	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
Categorising interfaith learning objectives: a scoping review	3
Education, religion, and LGBTQ+ in Australia	3
Exploring the enablers, tensions, and sectoral responses to embedding core values within publicly managed schools in Ireland	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
Reframing phenomenological approaches in religious education: insights from affect theory and the aesthetics of religion	3
Perceived hypocrisy and deconversion in adolescents. The mediating role of irrational beliefs and identity styles	3
Enhancing inclusivity and diversity among cathedral visitors: the Brecon Jazz Festival and psychographic segmentation	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
Student perceptions of a trial Religious Education curriculum: establishing baseline data	3
Kairos moments and serendipitous insights: lived experiences of children as a means of grace in the Godly Play room	2
Changing voices: the changing discourse of ‘religion’ and ‘implicit religious’ language	2
Transmitting religious values through online religious communities: case study of Pakistani Shia mothers’ home education	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
Social anxiety, social comparison, self-consciousness, and deconversion in adolescents: a path analysis approach	2
Educate the child according to his own way: a Jewish ultra-orthodox version of independent self-construal	2
Between confessionality and openness. Religious education in polish complementary schools in Great Britain	2
Educational polyphony for a contemplative under tragic tension: implications from the early life of Smerdyakov in The Brothers Karamazov	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
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
Transitioning from decades of segregation: religiosity and the attitudes towards intellectual disability in Romania	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
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
The inclusivity of Anglican cathedrals and the coronation of King Charles III: embracing explicit religion, civic religion, and implicit religion	2
Why RE’s radical reform could fail: The politics of epistemology and the economics of producer capture	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