Publications
Members of the Religion and Spirituality Network have written, co-edited and collaborated on a wide range of publications, some of which are shown here. Full listings of staff publications can be found in our Staff Profiles.
Hunt, C (2024, forthcoming) Discovering spirituality through critical reflection and autoethnography. In: K. Clough and B. Flanagan (Eds) International Handbook of Research Methods in Spirituality & Contemplative Studies. Abingdon: Routledge
Hunt, C (2024, forthcoming) Adult Education and Spirituality. In: S. Clancy, N. James and K. Orr (Eds) International handbook of teaching and research on adult learning and education. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Hunt, C (2023) ‘Doing’ reflective practice and understanding spirituality as a way of being: Implications for professional and transformative practice, Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 13(2), 147-162 .DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2023.2249823
Schweitzer F, Freathy R, Parker SG, Simojoki H (2023). How to Improve Religious Education Through Teacher Training: Experiences and Insights from European Countries. Munster, Waxmann.
Freathy R, Parker SG (2023). Insights from the history of the education of teachers of Religious Education in England. Subject specialists and specialization. In Schweitzer F, Freathy R, Parker SG, Simojoki H (Eds.) How to Improve Religious Education Through Teacher Training: Experiences and Insights from European Countries, Munster: Waxmann, 25-42.
Freathy R, Schweitzer F, Parker SG, Simojoki H (2023). Introduction. In Schweitzer F, Freathy R, Parker SG, Simojoki H (Eds.) How to Improve Religious Education Through Teacher Training: Experiences and Insights from European Countries, Munster: Waxmann, 7-21.
Parker SG, Simojoki H, Freathy R, Schweitzer F (2023). Understanding and developing RE teacher education. Conclusions and perspectives in a European horizon. In Schweitzer F, Freathy R, Parker SG, Simojoki H (Eds.) How to Improve Religious Education Through Teacher Training: Experiences and Insights from European Countries, Munster: Waxmann, 257-269.
Dillon, P. (2022). Sacred Places as cultural ecologies. Making space for the intangible, Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 17 (3). https://nome.unak.is/wordpress/volume-17-no-3-2022/
Freathy R, Dunkley H (2022). Realising the potential of RE: representation, reflection and research. RE Today, 40(1), 10-11.
Freathy R (2022). Translating the RE-searchers Approach. Prismet, 73(1-2), 141-144.
Freathy R, Parker SG (2021). The Professionalization of Teachers of RE in England: a Case Study. In Simojoki H, Schweitzer F, Henningsen J, Mautz J-R (Eds.) Professionalisierung des Religionslehrerberufs Analysen im Schnittfeld von Lehrerbildung, Professionswissen und Professionspolitik, Leiden: Brill | Schöningh, 501-527.
Hunt, C (2021) Critical Reflection, Spirituality and Professional Practice. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Doney, J (2021) ‘Interrogating Policy Processes in Education Through Statement Archaeology: Changes in English Religious Education’. Paedagogica Historica.
Doney, J (2021) Unearthing Policies of Instrumentalization in English Religious Education Using Statement Archaeology. Abingdon, Routledge.
Doney, J (2021) Theorising boundary encounters as a means to understand diffusion of ideas in religious education. In: Friedrich Schweitzer, Peter Schreiner (eds.): International Knowledge Transfer in Religious Education. 233-246. Münster, Waxmann.
Parker, S, Allen, S and Freathy, R (2020). The Church of England and the 1870 Elementary Education Act. British Journal of Educational Studies. 68(5): 541-565. DOI.
Parker, SG and Freathy, R (2020). The Church of England and religious education during the twentieth century. In Rodger, T., Williamson, P. and Grimley, M. (Eds.) (2020). The Church of England and British Politics since 1900. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer. pp. 199-221.
Freathy, R, Schmidt, A and John, HC (2020). Working with ‘big ideas about’ the study of religion(s) and worldview(s) - Multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological RE: a handbook for teacher educators, teachers and teacher trainees. Exeter. University of Exeter.
Freathy R, John HC (2020). Worldviews and Big Ideas: a Way Forward for Religious Education?. Nordidactica : Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education, 2019(4), 1-27. Full text.
Hunt, C (2020) Celebrating ten years of the Journal for the Study of Spirituality. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 10:1, 1-5, DOI.
Hunt, C (2020) ‘Storying the World through Spirituality’. In M.Fowler, J.D.III Martin and J.L.Hochheimer (Eds) Spirituality: Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy. (Brill, E-book, ISBN: 978-1-84888-091-7)
Larkin S, Freathy R, Doney J, Freathy G (2019). Metacognition, Worldviews and Religious Education a Practical Guide for Teachers, 1st Edition. Oxford, Routledge.
John H, Freathy R (2019). A Case Study in Biblical Interpretation: knowledge, knower and knowing (part 2). REToday, 36(3), 58-63. Full text.
Freathy R, Jackson R (2019). Jack Priestley (1935–2018). British Journal of Religious Education, 41, 240-242.
Freathy R, John H (2019). Religious Education, Big Ideas and the study of religion(s) and worldview(s). British Journal of Religious Education, 41(1), 27-40.
Flanagan, R. (2019) 'Implementing a Ricoeurian lens to examine the impact of individuals' worldviews on subject content knowledge in RE in England: a theoretical proposition.' British Journal of Religious Education.
Flanagan, R. (2019) 'Worldviews: what are they and how can we teach them as well as religions?', RE Today, 37:1.
John HC, Freathy R (2019). The Country of the Blind: knowledge, knower and knowing (part 1). REToday, 36(2), 49-53.
Wright, K., Whitworth, L. , Lyal, J. , Clinton, C., Flanagan, R and Love, R. (2019) 'Teach: RE Primary - An Introduction'. Oxford: Culham St Gabriel.
Wright, K., Whitworth, L. , Lyal, J. , Clinton, C., Flanagan, R and Love, R. (2019) 'Toolkit for Primary Religious Education ITT Providers'. Oxford:Culham St Gabriel.
Flanagan, R. (2018) 'Mission Impossible: training the next generation of RE teachers in 4 hours', RE: Today. 35:2
Freathy R, Davis A (2018). Theology in multi-faith Religious Education: a taboo to be broken?. Research Papers in Education Full text. DOI.
Freathy R, Reed E, Davis A, John H, Schmidt A (2018) Who is Jesus? Supplementary materials for Religious Education in the upper secondary school. Download pdf
Parker SG, Freathy R (2017). Childhood, Faith and the Future: religious education and ‘national character’ in the Second World War. In Strhan A, Parker SG, Ridgely S (Eds.) The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood, London: Bloomsbury Press. Full text.
Wintersgill, B. (ed) 2017. Big Ideas for Religious Education. Exeter, University of Exeter.
Doney J, Parker SG, Freathy R (2017). Enriching the Historiography of Religious Education: Insights from Oral Life History. History of Education, 46(4), 436-458.
Freathy R, Doney J, Freathy G, Walshe K, Teece G (2017). Pedagogical bricoleurs and bricolage researchers: the case of Religious Education. British Journal of Educational Studies
Parker SG, Freathy R, Doney J (2016). The Professionalisation of Non-Denominational Religious Education in England: politics, organisation and knowledge. Journal of Beliefs and Values: Studies in Religion and Education,37(2). Full text
Freathy R, Parker SG, Schweitzer F, Simojoki H (2016). The professionalisation of RE teachers: a process in progress?. Retoday, 33(3). Full text
Freathy RJK, Parker SG (2015). Prospects and problems for Religious Education in England, 1967-1970: Curriculum reform in political context. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 36(1), 5-30. Abstract. Full text
Simojoki, H, Schweitzer, F, Parker, SG, Freathy, R (2016) Die Professionalisierung des Religionslehrerberufs als Aufgabe und Gegenstand religionspädagogischer Forschung. Historische und systematische Perspektiven. Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie, 68(2), 135-152. Full text
Simojoki, H, Schweitzer, F, Parker, SG, Freathy, R (2016) Editorial. Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie, 68(2), 131-133 Full text
Freathy R, Parker SG, Schweitzer F, Simojoki H (2016). Conceptualizing and Researching the Professionalization of Religious Education Teachers: Historical and International Perspectives. British Journal of Religious Education, 38(2), 114-129. Full text
Freathy R, Parker SG, Schweitzer F, Simojoki H (2016). Professionalism, Professionalisation and Professionality in Religious Education. British Journal of Religious Education, 38(2), 111-113. Full text
Baumfield, V (2016) Making a difference in the Religious Education classroom: integrating theory and practice in teachers’ professional learning. British Journal of Religious Education, 38(2), 141-151.
Hunt, C (2016) Spiritual creatures? Exploring a possible interface between reflective practice and spirituality. In Fook, J., Collington, V., Ross, F., Ruch, G. and West, L. (Eds) Researching Critical Reflection: Multidisciplinary perspectives. London: Routledge, pp.34-47.
Hunt, C (2016) Why me? Reflections on using the self in and as research. In J.McNiff (Ed) Values and Virtues in Higher Education Research: Critical issues. Abingdon: Routledge, pp.48-63 .
Wintersgill, B. (2016) Teenagers' Perceptions of Spirituality. Kindle edition
Wintersgill, B. and Brine, A. (2016) Government national agencies for inspection and curriculum development in RE. in Gates. B (ed) . Religion and Nationhood. Tübingen. Mohr Siebeck
Freathy, R., Reed, E. D. and Davis, A. (2015). The Art of Bible Reading: A New Approach. REToday. 32(2). 45-48.
Freathy, R. and Parker, S. G. History, Remembrance and Religious Education: An Introduction. In S. Parker, R. Freathy, and L. Francis. (Eds.) (2015). History, Remembrance and Religious Education. Oxford: Peter Lang. pp.1-19.
Freathy, R., Parker, S. G. and Doney, J. Raiders of the Lost Archives: Searching for the Hidden History of Religious Education in England. In S. Parker, R. Freathy, and L. Francis. (Eds.) (2015). History, Remembrance and Religious Education. Oxford: Peter Lang. pp. 105-137.
Parker, S.G., Freathy, R., Francis, L.J. (2015) History, Remembrance and Religious Education. Oxford: Peter Lang.
Larkin, S., Freathy, R.J.K., Walshe, K., Doney, J. (2014). Creating metacognitive environments in primary school RE classrooms. Journal of Beliefs and Values: Studies in Religion and Education, 35(2), 175-186
Freathy, R.J.K., Parker, S.G., Schweitzer, F., Simojoki, H. (2014). Towards international comparative research on the professionalization of Religious Education. Journal of Beliefs and Values: Studies in Religion and Education, 35(2), 225-241. Abstract
Freathy, R., Reed, E. D., and Davis, A. (2014). The Art of Bible Reading: A Narrative Approach. Dialogue Australasia, 32. 1-3. Full abstract
Freathy, R., Reed, E.D., Davis, A., Cornwall, S. (2014). The Art of Bible Reading: Student Edition Buxhall, Kevin Mayhew Ltd.
Freathy, R., Reed, E.D., Davis, A., Cornwall, S. (2014). The Art of Bible Reading: Teacher Edition Buxhall, Kevin Mayhew Ltd.
Freathy, G., Freathy, R. (2014). The RE-searchers: promoting methodologically orientated RE in primary schools. REtoday, 31(3), 50-51.
Freathy, R. and Freathy, G. (2014). Initiating children into hermeneutical discourses in Religious Education: a response to Rachel Cope and Julian Stern. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 3(2), 156-167.
Wintersgill, B. (2014) Researching Materials Used To Teach About World Religions In Schools In England in in Andreassen, Bengt Ove und James R. Lewis (Hg.). Textbook Gods. Genre, Text and Teaching Religious Studies. Sheffield: Equinox Plublishing.
Freathy, R. and Freathy, G. (2013). RE-searchers: a dialogic approach to RE in primary schools. Resource, 36(1), 4-7.
Nixon, D. (2013) Stories from the Street. A theology of homelessness, Farnham: Ashgate.
Freathy, R.J.K., Parker, S.G. (2013). Secularists, Humanists and religious education: religious crisis and curriculum change in England, 1963–1975. History of Education, 42(2), 222-256.
Parker, S., Freathy, R., Francis, L.J. (2012). Religious Education and Freedom of Religion and Belief Oxford, Peter Lang.
Reed, E.D., Freathy, R.J.K., Cornwall, S., Davis, A. (2013). Narrative theology in Religious Education. British Journal of Religious Education, 1-16.
Freathy, R., Parker, S. (2012). Freedom from Religious Beliefs: Humanists and Religious Education in England in the 1960s and 1970s in Parker S,Freathy R,Francis LJ (eds.) Religious Education and Freedom of Religion and Belief, Oxford: Peter Lang, 7-27.
Hunt, C. (2012) Packaging positive thinking or returning to roots? Adult education and spirituality, Lifelong Learning, Well-Being and Personal Development 150th Anniversary of Vaughan College/SCUTREA Pre-Conference, John Foster Hall, University of Leicester, 3 July 2012. Hunt, C. Packaging positive thinking or returning to roots?
Parker, S., Freathy, R., Francis, L.J. (2012). Introduction in Parker S,Freathy R,Francis LJ (eds.) Religious Education and Freedom of Religion and Belief, Oxford: Peter Lang, 1-3.
Parker, S.G., Freathy, R.J.K. (2012). Ethnic Diversity, Christian Hegemony and the Emergence of Multi-faith Religious Education in the 1970s. History of Education, 41(3), 381-404.
Walshe, K and Teece, G. (2012) Understanding ‘religious understanding’ in Religious Education. British Journal of Religious Education.
Crook, D., Freathy, R.J.K., Wright, S. (2011). Citizenship, Religion and Education. History of Education, 40(6), 695-700.
Mansour, N. (2011). Science Teachers’ Views of Science and Religion vs. the Islamic Perspective: Conflicting or Compatible?. Science Education (95), 281-309.
Clegg, S., Hunt, C., Parker, J., Rowland, S., Skelton, A, & Steirer, B. (Eds) (2011) Leaving the Academy: Special Issue, Teaching in Higher Education. Abingdon: Routledge.
Parker, S.G., Freathy, R.J.K. (2011). Context, Complexity and Contestation: Birmingham's Agreed Syllabuses for Religious Education since the 1970s. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 32(2), 247-262.
Bayliss, P. & Dillon, P. 2010. Cosmologies and lifestyles: a cultural ecological framework and its implications for education systems, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 19 (2), 7-21.
Freathy, R., Aylward, K. (2010). 'Everything is in parables': an exploration of pupils' difficulties in understanding Christian beliefs concerning Jesus. Religious Education (usa), 105(1), 86-102.
Freathy, R., Parker, S. (2010). The necessity of historical inquiry in educational research: the case of Religious Education. British Journal of Religious Education, 32(3), 229-243.
Freathy, R.J.K. (2010). Review of Copley, T. Teaching religion: sixty years of religious education in England and Wales. History of Education, 39(4), 567-570.
Hunt, C. (2010) '"Walking back to happiness": A reappraisal of spirituality as an aspect of adult and university education’. In B.Merrill and P.Armstrong (eds) Looking Back, Looking Forward: Learning, Teaching and Research in Adult Education – Past, Present and Future. Proceedings of the 40th Annual SCUTREA Conference, (pp.206-213), University of Warwick/ SCUTREA.
Mansour, N. (2010). Exploring science teachers’ beliefs, intentions and practices about teaching and learning Science-Technology-Society (STS) issues. Eurasian Journal of Physics and Chemistry Education, 2(2), 123-157.
Mansour, N. (2010). Science teachers’ interpretations of Islamic culture related to science education Vs. the Islamic epistemology and ontology of science. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 5(1), 127-140.
Mansour, N. (2010). The impact of the knowledge and beliefs of Egyptian science teachers in integrating an STS based curriculum. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 21(5), 513-534.
Nixon, D. 2010. “Wonderfully and Fearfully Made in the Image of God”: Ordinands’ Perceptions of Sexualities and Sexualities Education. Journal of Adult Theological Education, 7, no. 1: 9–25.
Hunt, C. (2009) A long and winding road: a personal journey from community education to spirituality via reflective practice. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 28(1), 71-89.
Hunt, C. (2009) ‘Wyrd knowledge: towards an understanding of spirituality through reflective practice and mythopoesis’. In P.Willis, T.Leonard, A.Morrison and S.Hodge (eds), Spiritualty, Mythopoesis and Learning, Queensland: Post Pressed, pp.130-146.
Hunt, C. (2009) ‘A step too far? From professional reflective practice to spirituality’. In H.Bradbury, N.Frost, S.Kilminster and M.Zukas (eds), Beyond Reflective Practice: New approaches to Professional Lifelong Learning, London: Routledge, pp.155-169.
Hunt, C. (2009) ‘“They pass by themselves without wondering”: Using the self in, and as, research’. In P.Coare and L.Cecil (eds) Really Useful Research: Critical Perspectives on Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Lifelong Learning – Proceedings of the 39th Annual SCUTREA Conference, (pp.255-262), University of Cambridge/ SCUTREA.
Hunt, C. (2009) ‘Seeking Integration: Spirituality in the context of lifelong learning and professional reflective practice in R.L.Lawrence (ed.) Honoring our Past, Embracing our Future - Proceedings of the 50th American Adult Education Research Conference, (pp. 155-160), National-Louis University/AERC, Chicago, IL.
Clegg, S., Hunt, C., Parker, J., Rowland, S., Skelton, A, & Steirer, B. (Eds) (2009) Purposes, Knowledge and Identities: Special Issue, Teaching in Higher Education. Abingdon: Routledge.
Dillon, P., Bayliss, P., Stolpe, I. & Bayliss, L. (2008) What constitutes ‘context’ in sociocultural research. How the Mongolian experience challenges theory, Transtext(e)sTranscultures, 4, 18-31.
Aylward, K., Freathy, R. (2008). Children's conceptions of Jesus. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 29(3), 297-304.
Freathy, R. (2008). The Triumph of Religious Education for Citizenship in English Schools, 1935-1949. History of Education, 37(2), 295-316.
Freathy, R.J.K. (2008). Three Perspectives on Religious Education and Education for Citizenship in English Schools, 1934-1944. British Journal of Religious Education, 30(2), 103-112.
Freathy, R. (2008). Religious assembly in McCulloch G,Crook D (eds.) The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education, London: Routledge, 488-489.
Freathy, R. (2008). Religious education in McCulloch G,Crook D (eds.) The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education, London: Routledge, 490-491.
Freathy, R. (2008). Religious school in McCulloch G,Crook D (eds.) The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education, London: Routledge, 491-492.Freathy, R. (2007). Ecclesiastical and religious factors which preserved Christian and traditional forms of citizenship in English schools, 1934-1944. Oxford Review of Education, 33(3), 367-377.
Hunt, C. (2008) In our end is our beginning: spirituality and the role of the adult educator. In J.Crowther et al (eds) Whither Adult Education in the Learning Paradigm? (pp.303-310), University of Edinburgh: SCUTREA.
Mansour, N. (2008). Religious beliefs: a hidden variable in the performance of science teachers in the classroom. European Educational Research Journal, 7(4), 557-576.
Mansour, N. (2008). The experiences and personal religious beliefs of egyptian science teachers as a framework for understanding the shaping and reshaping of their beliefs and practices about Science-Technology-Society (STS). International Journal of Science Education, 30(12), 1605-1634.
Clegg, S., Hunt, C., Parker, J., Rowland, S., Skelton, A, & Steirer, B. (Eds) (2007) Diversity and Commonality in Higher Education: Special Issue, Teaching in Higher Education. Abingdon: Routledge.
Hunt, C (2007) Diversity and pedagogic practice: Reflections on the role of an adult educator in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education (Special Issue) 12(5), 765-779.
Hunt, C (2007) (with West, L.) Towards an understanding of what it might mean to research spiritually. In L.Servage & T.Fenwick (Eds) Learning in Community. Proceedings of the joint Conference of the American Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) and the Canadian Association for Studies in Adult Education (CASAE) (pp.301-306), Mount St Vincent University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Hunt, C (2006) Travels with a turtle: metaphors and the making of a professional identity. Reflective Practice 7(3), 315-332.
Hunt, C (2006) Reviving the Conspiracy: Engaging with spirituality as a form of resistance. In L.Roberts, W.Martin & J.Satterthwaite (Eds) Discourse, Resistance and Identity Formation (pp. 43-58). Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham.
Hunt, C (2006) (with West, L.) Engaging with spirit: Researching spirituality in adult learning. In P.Armstrong (Ed.) Inter-cultural perspectives on research into adult learning (pp. 176-183). Leeds: SCUTREA.
Freathy, R. (2006). Gender, age, attendance at a place of worship and young people's attitudes towards the Bible. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 27(3), 327-339.
Wellington, J., Bathmaker, A., Hunt, C., McCulloch, G. & Sikes, P. (2005) Succeeding With Your Doctorate. London, Thousand Oaks California, and New Delhi: Sage Publications. [1-4129-0116-2]
Nixon, J. Clegg, S., Hunt, C., Parker, J., Rowland, S. and Skelton, A. (Eds) (2005) Transformative Purposes, Values and identities for Higher Education: Special Issue, Teaching in Higher Education. Abingdon: Routledge.
Hunt, C (2005) ‘Only the trying': Struggles of an adult educator within the academy. In P.Coare (Ed.) Difference and Diversity in Lifelong Learning (pp. 173-182). Sussex: SCUTREA, University of Sussex.
Hunt, C (2005) Four entries: 'Adult'; 'Community Education'; 'Meaning Making'; 'Multiple Intelligences'. In L.English (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Adult Education (pp. 33-36; 131-136; 391-395; 414-417). Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hunt, C (2005) Reflective Practice. In J.P.Wilson (Ed.) Human Resource Development: Learning and training for individuals and organizations (revised 2nd edition) (pp. 234-251). London and Sterling, VA: Kogan Page.