When the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature convene for their joint meeting November 22–25 in Boston, thousands of attendees are expected to flock to a vast book expo. Among the 85 booths, they'll find a wide array of scholarly works and opportunities to pre-order 2026 titles.

PW invited academic publishers to share some highlights among their fall and forthcoming titles. Here's a sampler, as described by the publishers.

B&H Academic

The Devil Reads Nietzsche: A Public Theology for the Post-Christian Age by Southern Baptist pastor and B&H Academic publisher Michael McEwen (out now) sets out to "disciple readers to engage with cultural ideologies from within the biblical-theological narrative, and an interaction with the grandfather of postmodernism and deconstructionism will serve as a 'case study' of how we might do this charitably, wisely and winsomely."

Baker Academic

A Theology of Authority: Rethinking Leadership in the Church by theologian Christa McKirland (out now) "challenges our assumptions about authority, power, and leadership" and "tackles questions related to divine and human authority."

Bloomsbury Academic

Tongues of Fire: How Charismatic Prayer Changes Evangelical Brains and Inspires Spirit-Filled Activism by psychologist Josh Brahinsky (Mar. 2026) is an 18-year study of "the mind-body practices of charismatic evangelicals," including speaking in tongues.

Crossway

The Fountain of Life: Contemplating the Aseity of God by theologian Samuel G. Parkison (Jan. 2026) details how biblical truths "demonstrate God’s aseity—his self-existence, complete independence, and eternal nature." The book is part of Crossway's Contemplating God series of books intended to be gateways to topics in classical theology.

Eerdmans

The Genuine Jesus and the Counterfeit Christs: New Testament and Apocryphal Gospels by New Testament scholar and theologian Simon J. Gathercole (out now) makes the case that "what separates the canonical Gospels from their noncanonical counterparts covered in this book is that the former are faithful portraits of Christ the savior, and the latter are less-than-authentic representations."

Fordham Univ.

Witnessing a Wounded World: A Theology of Ecological Trauma by theologian Timothy A. Middleton (out now) presents deforestation, mining, wildfires, and ice-sheet collapse as "traumatic ruptures to communication, flesh, and time," and "proposes 'Christic witnessing' as a concrete theological response."

Fortress

White Supremacy Through Black Eyes: Human Dignity, Defacement, and the Grace of Racial Healing by theology and history professor Beverly Eileen Mitchell (out now) is a theological analysis of white supremacy from the perspective of those who must deal with it "in our highly racialized society."

Harvard Univ.

Islamic China by historian Rian Thum (Nov. 11) traces centuries of Muslim life in China and "dismantles the persistent notion that Islam is inherently foreign to Chinese culture"—a notion that Thum finds "continues to shape the CCP’s repressive policies" toward Muslim populations today.

Hendrickson

Paul the Rabbi Philosopher: Stoic and Jewish Philosophy in the Apostle’s Thought by New Testament professor Joseph R. Dodson (Apr. 2026) studies Paul’s letters in dialogue with first-century Jewish and philosophical texts, "conceptualizing how Paul aligns with, contradicts, and surpasses the first-century presentation of elements such as good news, powers, grace, human depravity, and obedience."

Interlink

Queens of Islam: The Muslim World's Historic Women Rulers by journalist and Islamic scholar Tom Verde (out now) introduces 15 women who "ruled empires, led armies, and wielded real power from Islam’s earliest centuries through the 1600s."

IVP Academic

Becoming God's Family: Why the Church Still Matters by Old Testament scholar Carmen Joy Imes (out now) traces "the theme of God’s presence through the entire biblical text" to understand God's design for the church and to find a constructive perspective on today's "disheartening realities of scandals, political polarization, and deconstruction."

Judson Press

Confronting Islamophobia in the Church: Liturgical Tools for Justice by American Baptist Church pastors Anna Piela and Michael Woolf (Jan. 2026) draws from history and scripture to "expose the Church’s role in fostering anti-Muslim prejudice and equip congregations to dismantle it" by making "interfaith engagement both practical and transformative."

Liturgical Press

Learning the Language of Creation: Catholic Social Teaching and Integral Ecology by Franciscan Sister Damien Marie Savino (Jan. 2026), a professor of civil and environmental engineering, presents her conviction that "the healing of ecosystems and of human communities goes hand in hand," and that “the external deserts in the world are growing, because the internal deserts have become so vast.”

New York Univ.

Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture by Lauren D. Sawyer (Dec.), a scholar of sexual ethics, theology, and anthropology, presents the purity movement as "very much tied to centuries of anti-Black racism and xenophobia in U.S. social history, seeing white youth as in need of protection, usually from a racialized, sexualized other."

Paulist Press

Cosmic Love: Nature, Science, and God (out now) by John Honner, a theologian and scholar in the philosophy of science, explores the rise of science, concepts of love, and "ideas about God not just as a creator, but as inherent (and incarnate) in creation."

Princeton Univ.

Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine by Mostafa Hussein (Dec.) explores how Jewish writers in those years "used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance the goals of Zionism" by "mediating between Jewish and Arab cultures while navigating their evolving identities as settler colonists."

Seabury

Systemic Oppression and Depression in Black Women by womanist theologian, social worker, and minister Rochelle Johnson (May 2026) examines "Black women's experiences at the intersection of oppression, trauma, culture, and church life" and "how historical trauma, racist myths, and harmful theological interpretations intensify the unique difficulties they encounter."

Univ. of North Carolina

God Bless the Pill: The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion by Samira K. Mehta (Apr. 2026), a professor of women and gender studies and director of the program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, explores U.S. Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish perspectives on "birth control and reproductive freedom for women from the mid-twentieth century to the explosive politics of today."

Univ. of Notre Dame

Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology by religious studies professor Lydia Willsky-Ciollo (Mar. 2026) "articulates how, in and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology of the wild."

Univ. of Virginia

The Early Tibetan Practice of Buddhist Philosophy: Metaphysics, Argumentation, and Identity in Rongzom’s Dzokchen by religious studies professor Dominic Di Zinno Sur (Apr. 2026) is an authoritative intellectual history that "illuminates the impact of Tibetan Buddhism’s first polemical apology, written by the 11th-century translator and polymath Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo."

Univ. of Wisconsin Press

Christian Internationalism and German Belonging: The Salvation Army from Imperial Germany to Nazism by Rebecca Carter-Chand (out now), director of programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, tracks how "the Salvation Army proactively shaped its public profile during the Nazi rise to power" to secure self-preservation and then after the war highlighted "different aspects of its identity to bolster and repair its reputation."

Westminster John Knox

Finding God in the Basement: Reimagining a Theology of Addiction and Recovery by theologian Jennifer Carlier (Jan. 2026) is an "incisive critique of how Christian doctrines of sin and salvation fail to engage the lived realities of addiction and recovery." Carlier points out that churches can learn from recovery programs that "center grace, authenticity, and vulnerability."

Yale Univ.

Make Your Home in this Luminous Dark: Mysticism, Art, and the Path of Unknowing by philosophy professor James K.A. Smith (March 2026) looks back to ancient mystics "to learn how to live with uncertainty in the 21st century."

Zondervan Academic

Vision of Ephesians by New Testament scholar and retired bishop N. T. Wright (Nov. 11) "offers an accessible introduction to Ephesians that works through the letter in nine sections, exploring the vital challenges Paul offers his readers, then and now."