Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
Title: Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
University: New York University
Specialties: Dead Sea Scrolls, Judaism in Late Antiquity, the history of Jewish law, and Talmudic literature
Recent Publications:
- Binding Fragments of Tractate Temurah and the Problem of Lishana Aḥarina (Brill Publishers, 2018)
- Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture; 3 vols. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2013)
- The Courtyards of the House of the Lord: Studies on the Temple Scroll (Brill, 2008)
- Qumran and Jerusalem: Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of Judaism (Eerdmans Publishing, 2010)
Bettina E. Schmidt
Title: Professor in study of religions and anthropology of religion and the director of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, UK
University: University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK
Specialties: Caribbean and Latin American religions, identity, cultural theories and migration, anthropology of religion, diaspora identity, religious experience, urban studies, medical anthropology and gender issues
Recent Publications:
- Spirit and Trance in Brazil: An Anthropology of Religious Experiences (2016, Bloomsbury)
- Caribbean Diaspora in the USA: Diversity of Caribbean Religions in New York City (2008, Ashgate)
- Handbook of Contemporary Brazilian Religions (2016, Brill)
- Spirituality and Wellbeing: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of religious experience and health (2020, Equinox)
Brent A. Strawn
Title: Associate Professor of Old Testament
University: Emory University
Specialties: Old Testament/Hebrew Bible; ancient Near Eastern iconography; Israelite religion; Old Testament Theology
Recent Publications:
- ed. 2012. The Bible and the Pursuit of Happiness: What the Old and New Testaments Teach Us about the Good Life. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Editorial board and translator, Common English Bible (2011).
Derek Nelson, co-Editor-in-Chief, Martin Luther
Title: Professor of Religion
University: Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA)
Specialties: Reformation Thought and History, Contemporary Systematic Theology, and Religion and Culture.
Recent Publications:
- Resilient Reformer: The Life and Thought of Martin Luther (Fortress, 2015)
- Luther Refracted: The Reformer's Ecumenical Legacy (Fortress, 2015)
- A History of Christian Theology, 2nd ed., with William C. Placher (Westminster John Knox, 2013).
- Sin: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2011)
Paul Hinlicky, co-Editor-in-Chief, Martin Luther
Title: Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College, Salem Virginia, Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute of Lutheran Theology, and a docent of the Protestant Theological Faculty of Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Specialties: Systematic Theology in the Christian Tradition; Christian Social Ethics; History of Doctrine, especially Early Church Fathers, Reformation and Modern Protestant; Biblical Theology; Ecumenical Theology; Political Theology; Faith and Science Dialogue; Jewish-Christian Dialogue.
Recent Publications:
- Critical Dogmatics after Christendom (Eerdmans, 2015)
- Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze: A New Cartography, with Brent Adkins (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)
- Before Auschwitz: What Christian Theology Must Learn from the Rise of Nazism (Cascade, 2013)
- Luther and the Beloved Community: A Path for Christian Theology after Christendom (Eerdmans, 2010)
Advisory Board
Professor of Liturgy, University of Notre Dame
Specialty: Religion and Liturgy
Kershner Professor of Religion and the Arts, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis
Specialties: Religion and the arts; religious and theological aesthetics; comparative and inter-religious studies
Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen
Specialty: Ancient Religion
Professor of Theology, University of Fribourg
Specialty: African Religions
Professor Emerita of Ancient History, Senior Research Fellow,University of Bristol
Specialty: Christianity/ Church History
Lecturer in Psychology and Spirituality, Ripon College Cuddesdon
Specialty: Psychology and Religion
Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation, Yale University
Specialty: Biblical Studies
Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism & Interpretation, Yale University
Specialty: Biblical Studies
Professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University
Specialty: Islam
Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion, University of Oxford
Specialty: Hinduism/ Buddhism
Professor of Jewish Studies, Wolfson College
Specialty: Judaism/ Jewish Studies
Lecturer in Religion, University of Stirling
Specialty: Religion and Literature
Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, University of Queensland
Specialty: Religion and Science
Professor of Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Specialty: Psychology and Religion
Professor of Art History, Baylor University
Specialty: Religion and the Arts
Vice President, Renmin University of China
Specialty: Religion and Literature
Professor of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow
Specialty: Religion and Liturgy
Professor of Sociology and affiliate Professor of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Specialty: Religion and Politics/ Global Religions
Jesuit Priest
Specialty: Ancient Religion
Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford
Specialty: Christianity/ Church History
Van Mildert Canon Professor of Divinity, Durham University
Specialty: Mysticism and Spirituality
Chair/ Professor Religious Studies, Utrecht University
Specialty: Sociology and Anthropology of Religion
Professor of Old Testament Theology Emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary
Specialty: Biblical Studies
Bradley Onishi
Faculty in Religious Studies and Philosophy, University of San Francisco Research Associate, Committee for the Study of Religion, UC Berkeley Co-Chair, Secularism and Secularity Group, American Academy of Religion
Specialties: Secularism and Secularity; White Christian Nationalism; American Evangelicalism; Philosophy of Religion
Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator
Jesuit Provincial for the East African countries of Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan and North Sudan
Specialty: African Religions
Wykeham Professorship in Ancient History, New College/ Oxford University
Specialty: Ancient Religion
Professor, Lancaster University
Specialty: Comparative Religion/ New Religion
Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion, Florida State University
Specialty: Religion in America
Professor, Lancaster University
Specialty: History of Indian religions; Contemporary Hinduism; Religion and Politics
Humanities Librarian, Florida State University Libraries
Specialty: Libraries and the Humanities
Professor, College de France
Specialty: Ancient Religion
Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the History of Islam, Georgetown University
Specialty: Islamic intellectual history
Run Run Shaw Chair of Chinese, University of Oxford
Specialty: Chinese Religion
Pro-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen
Specialty: Theology and Ethics
Professor, Harold and Martha Welch Endowed Chair in American Studies, University of Notre Dame
Specialty: Comparative Religion/ New Religion/ Religion in America
Chancellor, University of South Wales
Specialty: Mysticism and Spirituality
Charles A. Dana Professor of Religious Studies, Lafayette College
Specialty: Religion and the Arts
Former Editors
Niels Henrik Gregersen
University of Copenhagen