Data Set Artificial Intelligence and Multicultural Religious Education: A Systematic Review of Ethical Mediation and Decolonial Practices

This dataset comprises the complete supplementary materials for a decolonial qualitative systematic review examining how Artificial Intelligence (AI) mediates Multicultural Religious Education (MRE) across Islamic, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and indigenous educational traditions. The review synthesizes 254 peer-reviewed studies (2014–2026) from English, Indonesian, and Arabic sources, following PRISMA 2020 guidelines. The core contribution is an empirically-grounded framework identifying six AI mediation mechanisms along a continuum from algorithmic substitution (moral outsourcing, normative amplification, cultural flattening) to dialogic integration (hybrid deliberative mediation, contextual value re-embedding, dialogic ethical framing). The analysis further documents five decolonial possibilities emerging from Global South practices: epistemic re-centering, pedagogical sovereignty, cultural counter-flattening, governance innovation, and transnational solidarity. All supplementary materials supporting the main article are provided here, including complete study characteristics, inter-coder agreement matrices, quality appraisals, thematic analyses, and detailed appendices with operational definitions and conceptual frameworks. Supplementary Material Description SM-01 Study Characteristics Mapping – Complete bibliographic data, context, and methodology for all 254 studies SM-02 Inter-Coder Agreement Matrix – Theme-level Fleiss' κ scores demonstrating reliability (mean κ = 0.87) SM-03 JBI Critical Appraisal – Quality assessment scores with strengths and limitations for each study SM-04 PICo and Thematic-Content Analysis Matrix – Population-Interest-Context mapping with operational definitions SM-05 Theme-SWOT-CIMO Analysis – SWOT categorization with dominant mechanisms for all studies SM-06 Distribution of Reviewed Studies – Geographic, methodological, and educational level distribution (N=254) SM-07 Condensed Evidence Matrix – PICo × DEAM-MRE Domain × Region × Mechanism (N=254) SM-08 Mechanism Density Analysis – CIMO framework distribution across the corpus SM-09 Intercoder Reliability Summary – Derived from SM-02 with domain-level aggregation