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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between meaning in life, forgiveness, and gratitude among Polish adults: the mediating role of time perspective	14
Exploring ethical decision-making in Chinese early childhood teachers	10
Religious imaginations: religious literacy as the reading of signs	8
The other side of the coin: do the benefits of being a Christian postgraduate at a secular university in England contribute to student wellbeing?	8
Love for Allah and love for self: exploring the connection between religious affect and self-esteem among Muslim adolescents in England	7
Implicit religion: reshaping the boundary between the religious and the secular?	6
Lockdown worship in the Church of England: predicting affect responses to leading or accessing online and in-church services	6
Assessing visitor evaluation of an immersive cathedral experience: applying the Jungian lenses of feeling and thinking	6
Educate the child according to his own way: a Jewish ultra-orthodox version of independent self-construal	5
Cyber-victimisation and cyber-bullying: the mediation role of the dispositional forgiveness in female and male adolescents	5
Identity, culture and belonging: educating young children for a changing world	5
Influence of religious coping and religious identity on post COVID-19 well-being among Chinese university students	5
Forgiveness and its value from the perspective of educational relationship	5
Tests of life or life of tests?: similarities and differences in parents’ and teachers’ prioritisation of character, academic attainment, the virtues and moral theories	4
More intercultural sensitivity, less cyberbullying: the role of religious education among high-school students	4
Teachers’ experiences of spirituality in Swiss secular high schools – an interpretative phenomenological analysis	4
Impacts of religious secondary schools in Hong Kong on student attitudes towards school life	4
Social anxiety, social comparison, self-consciousness, and deconversion in adolescents: a path analysis approach	4
‘Will my child have their own faith?’ Exploring the impact of parental beliefs on childhood faith nurture	4
Roles of religious music and religious well-being in the relationship between fundamentalism and subjective well-being among Korean Christians	4
Space, the universe and everything : listening to visitors to the Luxmuralis son et lumiere installation at Liverpool Cathedral in 2022	4
Pantheon research, practical theology, and cathedral studies	4
A last word to Mark Chater, Trevor Cooling and Marius Felderhof from an educationalist	4
Introduction to the special issue on cathedral studies (part 2)	4
School leadership between community and the state: the changing civic role of schooling	4

Travelling religion: dynamic processes of Orthodox religious education in Germany	3
City cathedrals resourcing rural churchgoers: a study on the impact of the Exploring the Sunday Gospel programme	3
The ‘image of God’ and the schooling of virtue: Christian-ethos schools of character for the whole community	3
Is worldview education achieved in schools? A study of Finnish teachers’ perceptions of worldview education as a component of basic education	3
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	3
Listening during Christmas Eve carol services at Liverpool Cathedral: discovering what really matters to service participants	3
Spirituality and religiosity in the developing person	2
Religious feelings in early and late adulthood	2
Desiring Godand Christian Hedonism: awakening an immanent joy	2
Discernment as predictor for transformational leadership: a study of school leaders in Catholic schools in India	2
Teaching Christian values in a professional school using Good Samaritan model	2
A temple to memory: peace and war together within a strange intertwining. Stepping again into the Memorial Chapel of Liverpool Cathedral	2
Addressing inequalities in accessing mental health services for Muslim university students in the United Kingdom: implications for attainment and wellbeing	2
Localisation of Christianity in China: difficulties in and possibilities of achieving harmonious cultural integration	2
Educational rationality and religious education in Polish public schools	2
Learning from laughter: Implicit Religion, satire, and power in two British TV situation comedies	2
How forgiveness relieves anxiety: the role of differentiation of self	2
Gratitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of spirituality among Filipinos	2
The relationship between spiritual well-being and game addiction of youths: a cross-sectional study	2
The inclusivity of Anglican cathedrals and the coronation of King Charles III: embracing explicit religion, civic religion, and implicit religion	2
Proselytising and pastoral care: chaplains in Australian government schools	2
Why RE’s radical reform could fail: The politics of epistemology and the economics of producer capture	2
Who controls the agenda? theological perspectives on state-controlled home education in the UK	2
And to thine own self be true: ideological tensions of Orthodox Bible teachers in pluralistic schools	2
Religious vocation or ‘tender and gentle administration’: African Methodist Episcopalian Church women and in-group appropriation	2
Spiritual dryness among people with different levels of religious commitment. Polish adaptation of the spiritual dryness scale: psychometric properties and measurement invariance	2
Bible teachers cultivate social awareness of otherness	2
From soil to soul: teaching about Islam through gardens	2
The social value of music during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the benefits of online music participation for social capital, education, belonging and wellbeing	2
The social contribution of an urban cathedral: the vision of Coventry Cathedral in the 1960s	2
The prayer experience of youngsters using augmentative and alternative communication in haredi (Jewish ultra-orthodox) educational settings	2
Is there a place for environmental education in religious education in Türkiye?	2
Contextualising religious education in multi-religious Indonesia to achieve unity-in-religious diversity	2
The Holly Bough Service at Liverpool Cathedral: a location and occasion for encounter?	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