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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The pandemic and the feminisation of the Church? How male and female churchgoers experienced the Church of England’s response to Covid-19	14
Motherhood enjambed: birth stories, ritual, and Implicit Religion	10
Gratitude and life satisfaction: the mediating role of spirituality among Filipinos	8
Lockdown worship in the Church of England: predicting affect responses to leading or accessing online and in-church services	8
Leading school with diverse worldviews: Finnish principals’ perceptions	7
The Holly Bough Service at Liverpool Cathedral: a location and occasion for encounter?	7
Workplace spirituality and organizational citizenship behavior among teachers in bahrain: commitment as a mediator	6
Virtues and values education in schools: a study in an international sample	6
Recent attacks on character education in a UK context: a case of mistaken identities?	6
Reframing phenomenological approaches in religious education: insights from affect theory and the aesthetics of religion	5
Enhancing inclusivity and diversity among cathedral visitors: the Brecon Jazz Festival and psychographic segmentation	5
The role of spiritual intelligence and dispositional forgiveness in predicting episodic forgiveness	5
Perceived hypocrisy and deconversion in adolescents. The mediating role of irrational beliefs and identity styles	5
Student religious attitudes and global citizenship antecedents, identification, and outcomes in a Filipino sample	5
Discernment as predictor for transformational leadership: a study of school leaders in Catholic schools in India	5
Values, lifestyles, and narratives of prejudices amongst Finnish youth	5
The role of teachers’ religious beliefs in their classroom practice – a personal or public concern?	4
Values manifested in life purposes of higher education students in the Netherlands and Finland	4
Educational rationality and religious education in Polish public schools	4
Teachers’ experiences of spirituality in Swiss secular high schools – an interpretative phenomenological analysis	4
Categorising interfaith learning objectives: a scoping review	4
Values in the geometry and measurement unit of the Palestinian Grade six mathematics book	4
Anglican cathedrals as episcopal theological resource churches for nurturing growth and sustainability	4
Cyber-victimisation and cyber-bullying: the mediation role of the dispositional forgiveness in female and male adolescents	4
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

Education, religion, and LGBTQ+ in Australia	4
Exploring the enablers, tensions, and sectoral responses to embedding core values within publicly managed schools in Ireland	4
The inclusivity of Anglican cathedrals and the coronation of King Charles III: embracing explicit religion, civic religion, and implicit religion	4
‘Will my child have their own faith?’ Exploring the impact of parental beliefs on childhood faith nurture	4
RE leader connectedness: a theology of the lived reality of Catholic education	3
Why RE’s radical reform could fail: The politics of epistemology and the economics of producer capture	3
Space, the universe and everything : listening to visitors to the Luxmuralis son et lumiere installation at Liverpool Cathedral in 2022	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
Transitioning from decades of segregation: religiosity and the attitudes towards intellectual disability in Romania	3
‘Here today, gone tomorrow’: the risks and rewards of port chaplaincy	3
An elephant in the room: university chaplains cultivating healthy religious diversity through respectful dialogue	3
Localisation of Christianity in China: difficulties in and possibilities of achieving harmonious cultural integration	2
Forgiveness and its value from the perspective of educational relationship	2
Pantheon research, practical theology, and cathedral studies	2
Between confessionality and openness. Religious education in polish complementary schools in Great Britain	2
The psychological-type profile of cathedral worshippers	2
Restive spirits seeking release: the Implicit Religion of the Grateful Dead	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
Reimagining Fowler’s Stages of Faith: shifting from a seven stage to a four step framework for faith development	2
Bible teachers cultivate social awareness of otherness	2
How forgiveness relieves anxiety: the role of differentiation of self	2
Social anxiety, social comparison, self-consciousness, and deconversion in adolescents: a path analysis approach	2
Growth in patience in Christian Moral Wisdom and contemporary positive psychology	2
Preaching on the Bible and engaging with science during the Cathedral Christmas Eve carol services: listening to the congregation’s response	2
Changing voices: the changing discourse of ‘religion’ and ‘implicit religious’ language	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
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	2
Evaluating the learning outcomes of interfaith initiatives: a systematic literature review	2
The social contribution of an urban cathedral: the vision of Coventry Cathedral in the 1960s	2
Learning from laughter: Implicit Religion, satire, and power in two British TV situation comedies	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
Educate the child according to his own way: a Jewish ultra-orthodox version of independent self-construal	2
Anglican cathedrals as ‘episcopal centres of learning’? A survey of current educational provision	2
Deeply Christian and serving the common good? A survey of Anglican cathedral provision for schools	2
Educational polyphony for a contemplative under tragic tension: implications from the early life of Smerdyakov in The Brothers Karamazov	2
A narrative inquiry of the intergenerational transmission of cultural family values in mainland China	2
Transmitting religious values through online religious communities: case study of Pakistani Shia mothers’ home education	2
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	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