Some recommendations of recent publications from the editors.
Biblical Studies
David Gushee, Job in Exile: A Guide for Spiritual Refugees (Orbis, September 2026). For further information, please see davidpgushee.com.
Bible: Hermeneutics
Giorgio Agamben, The Spirit and the Letter: On the Interpretation of Scripture, translated by Scott Kirkland (Seagull Books, 2026).
Religious Studies: Environment
Michael Barnes Norton, Anthropocene Religion: Rethinking Nature, Humanity and Divinity Amid Climate Catastrophe (Edinburgh University Press, 2026).
Susannah Crockford, A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change from the End of a World (Chicago University Press, 2026).
Philosophy
Christopher Insole, If God Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (Oneworld Publications, 2026).
Brook Ziporyn, Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond (Chicago University Press, 2024).
John D. Caputo, A Radical God: Theopoetics, Phenomenology, and the Future of Religion (Columbia University Press, 2026).
Islamic Studies: historical Muhammad
Kurt Bangert, Muhammad and the Origin of Islam (Springer, 2026).
David Lambourn is Sofia’s Books Editor.