Journal of Beliefs and Values

Journal Data

Type	JOURNAL
Publisher	Routledge (GB)
ISSN	1361-7672 / 1469-9362
Scopus	19700181415
Wikidata	Q15752716
OpenAlex	S162199860
MAG	162199860
Website	https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjbv20/current
Total publications	1.207
Coverage period	1984 - 2026
Country	GB
Language	EN
Indexing	Scopus indexed
Cited by	16
Impact factor	0.734
SJR	0.509 (Q1)
SNIP	1.169
CiteScore	2.8
h-index	3
i10-index	1
Overton policy citations	1
Female authorship share	57.5%

The Journal of Beliefs and Values explores topics highly relevant to the anthropology of religion, cultural anthropology, and sociology of religion. It frequently publishes work that intersects closely with social anthropological concerns

Religious Studies · Education · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Christian Theology and Mission · Cultural Differences and Values · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies · Education and Character Development

The psychological type profile of the gatekeepers who book tickets online for cathedral installations
Open AccessLeslie J Francis, Ursula Mckenna et al.ARTICLE2026
Employing the Francis Psychological Type Scales, this study presents the psychological type profile of 493 individuals who booked tickets for a pre-Christmas son et lumiere in Liverpool Cathedral. The data replicates the findings of an earlier study among 778 similar participants. Intuitive types and perceiving types were underrepresented, with an over-representation of the Epimethean (SJ) temperament. The implications of these findings are discu…
Understanding educators’ spiritual awareness and well-being in selected South African secondary schools
Open AccessErika Engelbrecht-Aldworth, Joyce ToendepiARTICLE2026
The South African education system is characterised by overwhelming workloads, limited resources, fear of violence, and a lack of opportunities for advancement. Work is no longer just about completing tasks; it also encompasses personal fulfilment, social interaction, and building connections with others. Spirituality offers individuals a profound sense of self-worth, fosters deep connections with themselves and others, and empowers them to influ…
Philosophy of dialogue, phenomenology of womanhood and kindergarten teaching
Open AccessIvo Jirásek, Jana MajerčíkováARTICLE2026
The kindergarten teaching profession is a highly feminised environment. To better understand how teachers perceive it, we draw on the philosophy of dialogue (Buber, Levinas), which views the relationship with the other as the foundation of human existence. Additional context is provided by phenomenology (Husserl) and phenomenological analyses of femininity (Stein), which understand care, protection, and support as fundamental modes of human exper…
Bridging science and faith in the classroom
Open AccessTamjid Mujtaba, Michael J Reis et al.ARTICLE2026
Although science and religion are often portrayed as conflicting explanatory systems, this study shows that many secondary school students do not view them as inherently contradictory, and that teaching approaches can reduce perceptions of conflict. The research involved 14–15-year-old students in England participating in an educational intervention that presented religious education in ways that explored connections with science while teaching b…
An analysis of spiritual capital in religious education with insights from Türkiye
Open AccessSalih TuzerARTICLE2026
This study clarifies the concept of spiritual capital (SC) and its relevance to Religious Education (RE) by proposing a model that links theory to classroom practice. Using a systematic literature review with PRISMA-guided screening and thematic analysis, forty-three studies were synthesised. The resulting framework, informed by Verter’s typology and Smart’s model, identifies six components of SC: religious knowledge; morality and ethics; religio…
Psychological types and narration of religious and spiritual experiences
Open AccessRichard A Vroom, Jorien Copier et al.ARTICLE2026
This study examines the relationship between psychological type and the narration of religious and spiritual experiences (RSEs). Using a qualitative, idiographic approach, 84 narrative accounts from the Alister Hardy Database were analysed, selected from over 6,000 reports on the basis of reflective depth and phenomenological clarity. Jungian psychological typology, operationalised heuristically through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), was…
Professor Lynn Revell, 1965–2025
Open AccessRobert A Bowie, Hazel BryanARTICLE2026
Lynn Revell, Professor of Religion and Education and Faculty Director of Research at Canterbury Christ Church University, died suddenly in April 2025 of sepsis, just one week after her sixtieth bir...
Muslim voices in education
Open AccessJeremiah Olusola, Lynn RevellARTICLE2026
Debates about the experiences of Muslims in education are complex, not only because their experiences are diverse, and dependent on factors that are global, cultural, racial and shaped by social cl...
Returning to the sacred spring? Spa treatments, mineral springs and spirituality in settler Australia since 1852
Open AccessT W Jones, Nadia RhookARTICLE2026
Spas and mineral springs constitute major sectors of the global wellness economy, which now exceeds the size of the global biomedical economy. The industry, media and its critics emphasise ‘wellness’ as both holistic health care and pampering self-care. Wellness culture has been critiqued as neoliberal exploitation, particularly of middle-class, white women. Its spiritual dimensions are often figured as window dressing, gestural, or more substant…
‘Believing in planets doesn’t oppress anyone’
R CazarinARTICLE2026
While existing research has explored the impact of religious and spiritual beliefs on the mental health of transgender individuals, little is known about how these factors interact with other determinants, such as socioeconomic status, healthcare access, and migratory experiences, to shape their overall wellbeing. This paper aims to address this gap by exploring how transgender migrants in Spain navigate their health and wellbeing through the len…
Nature-connection and creation care in Australia
Open AccessCristina Rocha, Joshua Waters et al.ARTICLE2026
The lands now commonly known as Australia are religiously and spiritually diverse. Australians have long engaged in spiritual practices which are Indigenous, religious and/or holistic, with significant overlaps among these categories. In this article we focus on Common Grace, a nondenominational Christian group, as an example of spiritual diversity in contemporary Australia. We draw on interviews with Common Grace staff, and textual analysis of a…
‘ Alone Australia ’, nature connection and spiritual complexity in popular culture
Open AccessA Halafoff, Samantha Hauw et al.ARTICLE2026
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, scholars of religion have focused considerable attention on the rise of religious diversity and the non-religious, particularly in Western secular societies. More recently, two parallel worldview trends have been increasingly observable and attracting significant scholarly attention. More people are identifying as spiritual, be they religious or not, and reporting a strong connection with nature, which …
Traditionalist Catholic sensibilities in Argentinean Catholicism
Verónica Giménez Bé BéliveauARTICLE2026
Catholicism has historically been an active producer of diverse and contrasting imaginaries, emphasising radically transformative utopias or accentuating the return to well-ordered and idyllic pasts. This article analyzes traditionalist sensibilities in Argentinean Catholicism, which describe a Golden Age of the Church when hierarchical, religious order was thought to have kept the world’s threats at bay. It focuses on three conservative Catholic…
Exploring the entanglements of contemporary spirituality, Catholicism, and environmentalism in South Tyrol, Italy
Open AccessAnna FedeleARTICLE2026
This paper explores the entanglements of religion, spirituality, and environmental sustainability in the alpine province of South Tyrol (Italy), where the presence of Catholicism is strong. Referring to ethnographic data gathered through informal and formal interviews with Catholics, spiritual practitioners, and environmental activists, I will engage in ongoing debates about the greening of religion, the ecologization of spirituality, and the spi…
‘Scientifying’ spirituality or spiritualising biomedicine? Exploring the interplay in healthcare practices in Argentina and Spain
M Griera, Gabriela Irrazábal et al.ARTICLE2026
This article investigates the dynamic interplay between spirituality, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and health systems within diverse sociocultural contexts, focusing on Argentina and Spain. Through empirical analysis of contemporary forms of spirituality and health, the study examines how CAM therapies are integrated and negotiated within healthcare institutions and how their spiritual dimensions are addressed. The comparative an…
Who controls the agenda? Theological perspectives on state-controlled home education in the UK
Open AccessSarah E Holme, Harriet PattisonARTICLE2026
Questions regarding the dynamics of power and control involved in formulating the learning agenda for home-educating families arose due to the UK Government’s proposed Schools Bill in May 2022. Empirical research was prompted by concerns from Christian home educators about state interference in their child’s home education, due to perceptions that religious values were being undermined and the ultimate responsibility for raising their child was u…
Desiring God and Christian Hedonism
G Brandon KnightARTICLE2026
In the following rhetorical analysis, the contemporary evangelical philosophy called Christian Hedonism is examined. This philosophy was initiated by John Piper during the eighties through the now classic text Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist. Using rhetorical conceptions of immanence and transcendence, the artefact demonstrates a desire to transcend the contemporary bounds of evangelicalism through the immanent substance of joy.…
The other side of the coin
Open AccessSzilvi WatsonARTICLE2026
The mental-health crisis in higher education affects postgraduate students around the world, anxiety, depression and non-belonging being significant issues in this population. The positive relationships between faith and mental health and wellbeing are widely researched, yet little connection has been made between student mental health and religiosity. Half of postgraduate students in the UK identify with a religion or spirituality – exploring th…
Using Claude Romano’s ‘evential phenomenology’ to reflect on moments of grace and hope during the pandemic
Open AccessBrendan Hyde, Diana JosephARTICLE2026
Drawn from a wider study investigating the way people in Christian faith communities in Melbourne Australia experienced hope, grace and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper utilises Claude Romano’s notion of evential phenomenology to explore the lived experiences of three focus group participants in 2022. The phenomenological interpretation found that grace and hope were experienced as events, the significance of which were underst…
Early career teachers navigating the landscape of Sacre in England
Open AccessImran MograARTICLE2026
As a contribution to continuing debates about RE in England, this study explores current perspectives on the determination of the syllabus for RE of trainee teachers in a university in the West Midlands. They were selected because trainees are rarely studied in academic research about locally agreed syllabi. A survey gathered 149 responses from PGCE and Year 3 undergraduate students and 52 questionnaires from Year 1. The central concern is to exp…
Evangelical Christians score higher than non-evangelicals on public, but not on private, commitments to morality
Brian P O’connor, Paul K LutzARTICLE2026
Are distinctly elevated, external, public commitments and displays of morality accompanied by distinctly elevated internal, private commitments to morality? A nationally representative U.S. dataset was used to help answer this question. Evangelical Christians (N = 411) scored higher than non-evangelicals (N = 942) on a measure of commitment to external, public displays of morality. However, the group differences in scores on a measure of internal…
I say a little prayer for my singlehood
Open AccessKatarzyna Adamczyk, Radosław Trepanowski et al.ARTICLE2026
Past research has suggested that religion plays an important role in single individuals’ functioning. However, little is known about the role of prayer in single adults’ mental health. Therefore, the present investigation examined whether adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication, and reception prayer concerning singlehood would moderate the changes in anxiety, depression, and emotional and psychological well-being of Polish single indivi…
Argument in religious studies at GCSE
Open AccessTim Hunting, Hannah Kinchin-Frost et al.ARTICLE2026
This paper describes a developmental research project that started from the desire amongst several religious education teachers across different schools to work collaboratively to improve their teaching of argumentation. It specifically focuses on GCSE religious studies examinations in England. We were particularly interested in how students express their own arguments in written examination essays, which have specific requirements. The intention…
The ‘image of God’ and the schooling of virtue
Open AccessMark A PikeARTICLE2026
This article reports how the Judeo-Christian belief that all persons are ‘made in God’s image’ (imago Dei) leads to an egalitarian and generous evaluation of children and young people educated in a group of Christian-ethos schools with no ‘faith-test’ for admission in socio-economically disadvantaged areas of the north of England. The inclusiveness of Christian humanist perspectives, ancient and modern, conceiving of imago Dei as the divine gift …
Religious feelings in early and late adulthood
Open AccessMałgorzata Tatala, Marcin Wojtasiński et al.ARTICLE2026
The aim of the study was to compare different phases of adulthood in terms of religious feelings. To achieve this objective, semantic subgroups derived from expressions of religious feelings encompassed positive and negative qualities, situational context, and regulatory strategies. This process was rooted in Walesa’s cognitive-developmental theory of integral religious development. Under positive qualities, the subcategories included reflexivity…