Professor Stephen Parker
List of Publications (last updated 31/3/16)
SOLE-AUTHORED BOOKS
2005 Faith on the Home Front: Aspects of Church Life and Popular Religion in
Birmingham, 1939 – 1945. Bern: Peter Lang.
EDITED BOOKS
2012 Religious Education and Freedom of Religion and Belief. Bern: Peter Lang. Joint
editor with Rob Freathy and Leslie J. Francis.
2012 God and War: the Church of England and Armed Conflict in the Twentieth-century.
Aldershot: Ashgate. Joint editor with Tom Lawson.
2014 History, Remembrance and Religious Education. Bern: Peter Lang. Joint editor with
Rob Freathy and Leslie J. Francis.
2017 The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood. London: Bloomsbury. Joint
contributing-editor with Anna Strhan and Susan Ridgley.
EDITED SPECIAL EDITION OF REFEREED JOURNALS
2011 Faith in Education. Journal of Beliefs and Values (special edition in honour of Marius
Felderhof), 32: 2. Edited with W.S. Campbell.
2015 The Future of Religious Education in England. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 36: 1
Edited with Rob Freathy and David Aldridge.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS
2001 Keeping Faith and Coping: belief, popular religiosity and the British people. In
Liddle, P., Bourne, J. and Whitehead, I. (eds.) (2001) The Great World War (Volume 2): The
people’s experience. London: Harper Collins. Co-authored with Michael F. Snape.
2012 Reinvigorating Christian Britain: the spiritual opportunities of the war, national
identity, and the hope of Religious Education. In Parker, S.G. and Lawson, T. (eds) (2012)
God and War: the Church of England and Armed Conflict in the Twentieth-century.
Aldershot: Ashgate.
2012 God and War: a century in the politics of religion. In Parker, S.G. and Lawson, T.
(eds). (2012) God and War: the Church of England and Armed Conflict in the Twentiethcentury. Aldershot: Ashgate. Co-authored with Tom Lawson.
2012 Freedom from Religious Beliefs: Humanists and Religious Education in England in
the 1960s and 70s. In Parker, S.G., Freathy R.J.K. and Francis, L.J. (eds) (2012). Religious
Education and Freedom of Religion and Belief. Bern: Peter Lang. Co-authored with Rob
Freathy.
2012 Introduction in Parker S, Freathy R, Francis LJ (eds.) (2012) Religious Education and
Freedom of Religion and Belief, Oxford: Peter Lang, 1-3. Co-authored with Rob Freathy and
Leslie J. Francis.
2015 Raiders of the Lost Archive: researching the hidden history of religious education in
English schools. In Parker, S.G., Freathy R.J.K. and Francis, L.J. (eds). History,
Remembrance and Religious Education. Bern: Peter Lang. Co-authored with Rob Freathy
and Jonathan Doney.
2015 Introduction In Parker, S.G., Freathy R.J.K. and Francis, L.J. (eds). History,
Remembrance and Religious Education. Bern: Peter Lang. Co-authored with Rob Freathy.
2016 Towards international comparative research on the professionalisation of Religious
Education (with Rob Freathy, Friedrich Schweitzer and Henrik Simojoki). In Kuusisto, A.
and Lovat, T., Contemporary Challenges for Religious and Spiritual Education London:
Routledge.
2016 Creating and preserving a ‘community of the air’: the BBC’s ‘Religious Service for
Schools’, ‘Come and Praise’, continuity and change in the musical aesthetic and religious
discourse around the child in the late twentieth century. In Strhan, A., Parker, S.G., and
Ridgley, S. The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood London: Bloomsbury.
2016 Classrooms as spaces of everyday religious and moral education and socialization. In
Strhan, A., Parker, S.G., and Ridgley, S. The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood
London: Bloomsbury.
2016 Childhood, Faith and the Future: religious education and ‘national character’ in the
Second World War. In Strhan, A., Parker, S.G., and Ridgley, S. The Bloomsbury Reader in
Religion and Childhood London: Bloomsbury (with Rob Freathy).
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
2009b ‘Blessed are the pacifists’: E.W. Barnes of Birmingham and Pacifism, 1914-1945.
Midland History, Vol. 34: 2, 204–219. DOI: 10.1179/175638109X417369
2009a Theorizing sacred space in educational contexts: a case study of three English
Midlands Sixth Form Colleges. Journal of Beliefs and Values: studies in religion and
education, 30:1, 29-39. DOI: 10.1080/13617670902784527
2010 ‘The necessity of historical inquiry in educational research: the case of religious
education’, British Journal of Religious Education, 32: 3, 229 – 243. DOI:
10.1080/01416200.2010.498612 (with Rob Freathy)
2010 'Teach them to pray Auntie’: Children's Hour Prayers at the BBC, 1940-1961',
History of Education, Vol. 39: 5, 659-676. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00467601003685741
2011 ‘Context, Complexity and Contestation: Birmingham’s Agreed Syllabuses since the
1960s’, Journal of Beliefs and Values: studies in religion and education, 32: 2, 247 – 263.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2011.600823 (with Rob Freathy)
2012 ‘Ethnic diversity, Christian hegemony and the emergence of multi-faith religious
education in the 1970s’, History of Education, 41: 3, 381–404.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2011.620013 (with Rob Freathy)
2013 ‘Secularists, Humanists and Religious Education: religious crisis and curriculum
change in England, 1963-1975’, History of Education, 42: 2, 222-257. (with Rob Freathy)
2014 ‘Towards international comparative research on the professionalisation of Religious
Education’, (with Rob Freathy, Friedrich Schweitzer and Henrik Simojoki), Journal of
Beliefs and Values: studies in religion and education, 35:2, 225-241.
2015 ‘Mediatising childhood religion: the BBC, John G. Williams and collective worship
for schools in England, 1940-1975’, Paedagogica Historica: international journal of the
history of education, 51:5, 614-630. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2015.1013559
2015 ‘The Future of Religious Education: crisis, reform and iconoclasm’, (with Rob
Freathy and David Aldridge), Journal of Beliefs and Values: Studies in Religion and
Education, 36: 1. 1-4.
2015 ‘Prospects and Problems for Religious Education in England, 1967-1970: curriculum
reform in political context’, (with Rob Freathy), Journal of Beliefs and Values: studies in
religion and education, 36:1, 5-30.
2016 ‘Professionalism, Professionalization and Professionality in Religious Education’
(with Rob Freathy, Friedrich Schweitzer and Henrik Simojoki), British Journal of Religious
Education, 38(2).
2016 ‘Professionalism, Professionalization and Professionality in Religious Education’
(with Rob Freathy, Friedrich Schweitzer and Henrik Simojoki), Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und
Theologie
2016 ‘Conceptualizing and Researching the Professionalization of Religious Education
Teachers: Historical and International Perspectives’ (with Rob Freathy, Friedrich Schweitzer
and Henrik Simojoki), British Journal of Religious Education, 38(2)
2016 ‘Conceptualizing and Researching the Professionalization of Religious Education
Teachers: Historical and International Perspectives’ (with Rob Freathy, Friedrich Schweitzer
and Henrik Simojoki), Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie
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) (with Rob Freathy and Jonathan Doney).
2016 ‘Exploring the trajectory of personal, moral and spiritual values
of 16- to 18-year-olds studying religion at A level’ (with Leslie J. Francis and Andrew
Village), Journal of Beliefs and Values: studies in religion and education