(2021). Children’s subjectivity and agency in religious education. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 277-278.

ABSTRACT The Church of England responded quickly and decisively to the Government’s lockdown of the nation on 23 March 2020 by a total lock-up of all its churches and a swift move to a new online presence. Drawing on data from the Coronavirus, Church & You Survey provided by 1,642 female and 854 male churchgoing lay Anglicans in England, the present analyses tested the thesis that the response of the

(2021). Social inequality and interreligious learning: an empirical analysis of students’ agency to cope with interreligious learning tasks. Journal of Beliefs & Values. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Drawing on empirical data collected in 2018-2019, this article shares the results of a study on values including religiosity, empathy, forgiveness, and community mindedness among parents and educators in seven communities in Muslim countries. The goal is to contribute evidence-based knowledge on the importance of the above constructs in these unique contexts. The results suggest the three

ABSTRACT This study explored the extent to which an educational debrief strategy informed by Carl Jung’s psychological type theory – that peoples’ innate personalities influence the way they process information – might contribute to the effectiveness of debriefing Christian experiential learning activities in a young adult ministry in Singapore. Drawing on the discourses on experiential learning, debrief

ABSTRACT In the present study, we investigated the influence of religious attitudes on a model of antecedents, identification, and outcomes of global citizenship using predictive quantitative tools. A total of 2,694 university students were recruited from two campuses of a large state university in southern Philippines and completed measures regarding religious attitudes and antecedents and outcomes

ABSTRACT Although the area of parental involvement in education is well researched, much less is known about how parents and teachers might work together to cultivate desirable character virtues in their children/pupils. This article considers three potential barriers to parents/teachers forming such partnerships: i) differing views on the importance of character compared to academic attainment; ii)

ABSTRACT This article presents a striking finding of our research into the religious identity commitments and process of religious identity development of emerging adults who grew up in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands. We observed a recurrent theme in the life story accounts we studied. Almost all the participants expressed that they feel or felt not good enough for God or believers within

ABSTRACT The brief Francis scale of attitude towards Christianity (Francis-4) psychometric performance in Mexico is unknown. The objective was to evaluate the dimensionality, homogeneity, gender differential item functioning (DIF), and nomological validity of Francis-4. 1,108 university students between 18 and 60 years of age were evaluated; 80.4% were women (n = 891). CFA was performed with the following

ABSTRACT The aim of the present paper, set within the developing science of cathedral studies, was to analyse the qualitative comments added by 113 of the 567 participants who submitted responses to a quantitative survey while attending the Holly Bough Service in Liverpool Cathedral on the afternoon of the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2019. These qualitative comments added depth and texture to the quantitative

(2021). Islam on campus: contested identities and the cultures of higher education in Britain. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 411-413.

(2021). Secularisation in 1960s Britain: triumph of rationalism or self-fulfilling prophecy?. Journal of Beliefs & Values. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT In recent years, the concept of ‘worldview’ has resurfaced into the forefront of the international debate among scholars of religious education. With this study, we aim to contribute to the discussion with empirical material having a focus on worldview education in whole school education. The study deals with the Finnish teachers’ perceptions of worldview education in basic education. Teachers

ABSTRACT Transformational leaders are leaders who ‘transform and inspire followers to perform beyond expectations while transcending self-interest for the good of the organisation’. ‘Discernment’ is defined as the individual and communal practice of decision-making that is oriented on the future (educational aims), conditioned by the personal qualities of leaders (purity of heart), and which emphasises

ABSTRACT This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the relationships between gratitude and life satisfaction; gratitude and spirituality; spirituality and life satisfaction, and the mediating role of spirituality between gratitude and life satisfaction. We utilised the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6), Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), and Daily Spiritual Experience Scale as measures. The study

(2021). Jesus Christ, learning teacher: where theology and pedagogy meet. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 410-411.

ABSTRACT School textbooks affect the different aspects of students’ learning. One way that textbooks can affect students’ learning is through the values embedded in the texts. In the present research, we intend to study values in elementary school mathematics textbook. Specifically, we study values in the Geometry and Measurement unit of the Palestinian Grade six mathematics book. This unit is comprised

ABSTRACT Scholarship about the concept of the conscience has languished in the past half century, although some recent works have sought to revive it. One recent attempt proposes that the key to reviving the concept is its secularisation, since this secularisation would make it less dogmatic and more useful to a wider audience. In this paper, I argue that this process already occurred in American collegiate

ABSTRACT Owing to the mixed-bag effects of religion on society, and particularly South Africa’s history with religion as embedded in the oppression of and liberation from apartheid, a recent curricular review has seen the introduction of teaching about religion in the Life Orientation (LO) curriculum. From our standpoint as academics in Religion Education, we question whether the current curricular

ABSTRACT Finding Common Ground (FCG) is an inter-belief dialogue program hosted in the Multi Faith Facility of Swinburne University of Technology. FCG is a voluntary program that offers Swinburne students a safe space to discuss their religious faith, or alternative value base, and to learn from those of others. Two iterations of this program were evaluated in 2018. We argue that nurturing healthy

ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out what kind of worldviews Finnish principals identify in their schools and the kind of lived realities of worldviews that are affecting schools from the perspective of school leadership. The issues were considered using a wide worldview framework, which includes religious and non-religious worldviews and focused on the lived realities of worldviews.

ABSTRACT Relationships between spirituality and forgiveness have been of considerable interest to researchers. However, results of their studies remain ambiguous. In the present study, we explored associations between spiritual intelligence and forgiveness both as a state and as a trait. Respondents (605) aged 18–79 completed the Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory, the Heartland Forgiveness

ABSTRACT So far, there is no consensus in psychology research with regard to the relationship between religiosity and prosocial behaviour. However, this relationship is quite important for understanding the dynamics underlying prosociality in adolescence. In the present study, 1,170 Turkish adolescents (aged 12–17) from both religious and general schools were compared in terms of their prosociality

(2021). Migration, religion and early childhood education. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 409-410.

ABSTRACT This article offers a response to some recent critiques of character education in a UK context, in general, and the approach promoted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, in particular. The article argues that critiques of current UK character education betray an inadequate grasp of significant factions within its group of advocates, and that there is reason to question the suggested

ABSTRACT Young people with immigrant backgrounds are especially exposed in their identity formation. They may face particular difficulties if they also identify themselves as religious, such as being positioned as odd and different in negative ways by their peers. Focusing on the social conditions for developing an integrated identity, and through the theoretic lens of dialogical self-theory, this

ABSTRACT Moral education requires interdisciplinary engagement across philosophy, psychology, and education. Positive psychologists regularly acknowledge the breadth and depth of wisdom regarding the cultivation of virtues present in philosophical and religious texts and consult such writings when creating constructs, but they are less prone to integrate scientific findings with historical texts as

(2021). Religious education and the Anglo-world: the impact of empire, Britishness, and decolonisation in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 146-147.

ABSTRACT Inspection criteria for schools with a religious character in England and Wales require the sponsoring body to arrange assessment on aspects of the distinctiveness of the school ethos. The Student Voice Project was designed to include year-five and year-six students in this process. Within the Diocese of Llandaff, the Diocesan Director of Education utilised the customised reports prepared

At the time of writing the world faces several global crises: the coronavirus pandemic; climate change; racism; an increase of mental health problems among the young; populism and nationalism; a re...

This article reports on a small-scale research project conducted in Australia investigating the perceptions of some Godly Play storytellers in relation to children as a means of grace. Seven Godly ...

Prior research on the effect of religion on prejudicial attitudes against sexual minorities has looked into how religion may influence public attitudes towards homosexual behaviours, gay marriage, ...

This article argues that crucial elements of the three most important theoretical models of twentieth-century education can be traced back to three Protestant denominations that were developed in E...

The study explores the connection between love for Allah (conceptualised as religious affect) and love for others (conceptualised as empathy) among a sample of 919 self-identified Muslim adolescent...

ABSTRACT Australian students’ perception of a trial Religious Education (RE) programme is the focus of this paper. Students (N = 1478) from 37 schools, primary and secondary, completed an online survey that included six Likert style items that aligned with six RE development principles that guided the development of the trial. Curriculum development was inclusive and student centred, giving voice to

(2021). Reforming religious education: power and knowledge in a worldviews curriculum. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 144-146.

ABSTRACT This article studies three RE (religious education) student teachers’ perceptions about their professional development from the beginning to the end of their initial teacher education. The focus of study was to investigate via an inductive content analysis if there are the same kind of phases in RE teacher education and how those phases are in relation to their training. Based on their characterisations

Citizens often face dilemmas where they need to make decisions that impact our lives and are related to science and religion. For example, genetic cloning, nuclear energy and climate change can pot...

(2021). Sacred and secular martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 142-147.

Previous research outlines a relationship between religiosity and increased mental and physical wellbeing. However, to date findings from quantitative and qualitative research do not offer an unamb...

‘A refuse dump for Anglican mediocrity’: so Mervyn Stockwood described the bench of bishops in 1948, in a letter to Dame Isobel Cripps, when he was trying through Isobel and her husband, chancellor...

In the modern higher education context, the intersection of sundry personal identities and teaching responsibility may be problematic as it can lead to misunderstandings, ethical dilemmas, and even...

The recently published Reforming RE: power and knowledge in a worldviews curriculum (Chater 2020) is a further call for legal and curricula changes to religious education in England. It adds to the volume of accumulating contributions for reform emanating from various quarters, notably from Clarke and Woodhead (2018), the Religious Education Council’s Commission on Religious Education (2018) and Wintersgill

This qualitative study examines the religious identity commitments of 18 emerging adults who grew up in strictly Reformed contexts in the Netherlands. During in-depth narrative interviews with phot...

ABSTRACT This article is a snapshot of the current attitudes manifested by the Romanian Orthodox seminarians towards interdenominational networking from the perspectives of individual interests, cultural representation, and institutional structure. Using the interdenominational networking as a social platform, the article considers the tension between rational choice and structuralism, whereby an Orthodox

ABSTRACT Why do some migrants attend church more than others? This article uses an original survey conducted on first-generation Romanian migrants to identify the determinants of such a behaviour. Our study tests the explanatory power of three categories of determinants: migrants’ social network, their ties with the home country and the integration in the host society. The analysis uses individual-level

ABSTRACT According to Petrarch, the main goal of the liberal arts is to help us live a good life and become wise, virtuous, and serene. This is also something achieved via true Christian faith. In this paper, my goal is twofold. First, I review Petrarch’s general attitude to the good life and the ways to live it, along with his advice on how to remain content or regain peace in the face of difficulties

ABSTRACT The psychological and pathological correlates of mystical experience have been debated since the early days of the psychology of religion. In the present study the association between mystical experience and emotional wellbeing was tested among 1,266 Australian church leaders who completed the Eysenck Neuroticism Scale alongside the Francis-Louden Mystical Orientation Scale. No significant

ABSTRACT In the Czech Republic, home schooling is an increasing but still rare education practice. The country is at the same time not favourable to public demonstrations of religion. In such a specific context, we investigated the intersection of religion, spirituality, and home schooling. Drawing on a broad ethnographic research design, we identify three levels of strategies employed by religious

Professor Andrew Wright’s development of pedagogies of critical religious education (CRE) is one of the most influential movements in RE’s academic circles over the last two decades, having a wide ...

ABSTRACT The study aims to investigate the differences concerning the religiosity (understood as the placement of religious constructs in the structure of a personality) and value system of young adults who are married, people in non-formalized relationships, and singles. The participants of the study were 321 women and 302 men aged 22 to 42 (45% singles, 55% in relationships). The results of the research

ABSTRACT Background: This article outlines how poetry is able to configure the soul of a cityscape through the modes of personification and metaphors of public space. Purpose: It argues that these modes are so intertwined in reality that it is possible to gather a sense of a city’s soul through experiential, rhythmical, temporal and transmigratory images of cityscape. Design: The article applies a

Religious literacy has emerged as a commonplace term (amongst other identified and multiple literacies, e.g. media literacy, financial literacy, coding literacy) in education over the past 20 years, deemed to be a necessary component for successful citizenship across contemporary societies. Specifically, religious literacy is said to entail ‘the ability to discern and analyse the fundamental intersections

(2020). Beyond the big six religions: expanding the boundaries in the teaching of religions and worldviews. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 41, Special Issue: Religious Literacy: Spaces of Teaching and Learning About Religion and Belief ; Guest editors: Professor Adam Dinham and Professor Stephen Parker, pp. 245-247.

ABSTRACT In this paper, the central findings of a research project into religious literacy are presented. This project sought to answer the question as to whether or not religious literacy can be a way forward for religious education (RE). Starting with the idea of ‘literacy’, dominant approaches religious literacy in the literature are examined. An educational argument is developed, building on a

ABSTRACT This article presents analyses of curricula in religious education (RE) for public schools in Austria, Scotland, and Sweden. A curricula is the plan that outlines the goals, content and outcomes in education. A critical discourse analysis approach (CDA) is used to explore how each national RE curricula constructs (a) the aims, status and purpose of state-maintained RE (b) the teaching and

Section 5 contains two chapters on Young Volunteers. One of the chapters (by Schweitzer) returns us to confirmation work and investigates voluntary commitment after confirmation and the long-term effects of confirmation work in Germany. The other (by Tervo-Niemelä) presents longitudinal research on young volunteers in Finland. Section six consists of the editors’ observations and conclusions. Here

CoRE (Commission on Religious Education). 2018. Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward. A National Plan for RE (Final Report). London: Religious Education Council of England & Wales. Jackson, R. 1997. Religious Education: An Interpretive Approach. London: Hodder & Stoughton. QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority). 2004. Religious Education: The Non-statutory National Framework. London: QCA

ABSTRACT Contrary to earlier assumptions, not (only) is religion declining in modern societies, it is taking new roles in the complex development of (late) modern societies. In empirical studies on values, religiosity has been connected primarily to traditionalist value patterns that highlight stability, traditionality and security. This article, focusing on data collected from members of a renewal

Michael Hand has rigorously constructed an argument that, in the course of its progress, closes down, answers, or otherwise anticipates almost every counter that could be made to it at every stage. I agree with it completely. This is probably not a surprise, given my own views as a humanist. Hand’s argument is thoroughly in that tradition of thought. Before the publication of the present book, he made