Abstract
This article provides a systematic overview of the disciplinary profiles and key research areas of Islamic Religious Education (IRE) and Islamic Practical Theology (IPT) in the German-speaking context. Their development is closely linked to migration and education policy processes; in particular, IRE, as the first Islamic-theological discipline at German universities, played a pioneering role in the institutional establishment of Islamic theology. While IRE has since established itself as an independent discipline with both theological and pedagogical foundations, IPT is still in an early phase of profile and structural development.
Zusammenfassung
Dieser Artikel bietet einen systematischen Überblick über die disziplinären Profile und zentralen Forschungsfelder der Islamischen Religionspädagogik (IRP) und der Islamischen Praktischen Theologie (IPT) im deutschsprachigen Kontext. Ihre Entwicklung ist eng mit migrations- und bildungspolitischen Prozessen verknüpft; insbesondere die IRP spielte als erste islamisch-theologische Disziplin an deutschen Universitäten eine Pionierrolle bei der institutionellen Etablierung der Islamischen Theologie. Während sich die IRP inzwischen als eigenständige Disziplin mit sowohl theologischen als auch pädagogischen Grundlagen etabliert hat, befindet sich die IPT noch in einer frühen Phase der Profil- und Strukturbildung.
1. Introduction
This research report provides a systematic overview of the key research areas in Islamic Religious Education (IRE) and Islamic Practical Theology (IPT) in German-speaking contexts. It becomes evident that, due to the differing stages of development of the two disciplines, research in IRE is considerably more advanced and differentiated than in IPT, which is still in the early stages of institutional and substantive consolidation. The geographical focus of the report is on Germany and Austria, where Islamic theology has been established as an academic discipline with its own denominational study programs, research structures, and institutional anchoring—a situation that has so far not existed in comparable form in other European countries.
2. Emerging Disciplines in Transition: History and Position of Islamic Religious Education and Practical Theology in the German Higher Education Landscape
The development of IRE and IPT as academic disciplines in Germany is closely linked to the country’s migration history. A key starting point was the recruitment of so-called “guest workers” from Turkey in the 1960 s. Early scholarly engagement with this phenomenon primarily centered on questions of migration sociology, while the religious affiliation of these labor migrants initially remained largely unaddressed. It was not until the late 1980 s that a paradigmatic shift occurred: the previously dominant designations such as “foreigners” or “Turks” were increasingly replaced by the religiously connoted term “Muslims.”[1]
Originally, it was assumed that the recruited labor migrants would return to their countries of origin after a few years. Accordingly, education policy initially focused on measures aimed at reintegration, such as supplementary mother-tongue instruction in cooperation with the countries of origin. However, with the recruitment stop of 1973 and the subsequent wave of family reunification, it became increasingly evident that many migrants would remain in Germany on a permanent basis.
This social reality also posed new challenges for the educational system—particularly with regard to the question of how to design religious education provisions for the growing Muslim population. The starting point was the politically and legally contested issue of whether, and in what form, Muslim pupils in public schools could receive religious education. This debate was shaped by a distinctive feature of the German education system: under Article 7(3) of the Basic Law, religious education is confessional in nature.[2] In parallel, the question of a comprehensive, quality-assured, and university-based training of religious education teachers for Islamic religious education increasingly came into focus.
From the 2000 s onwards, policymakers and educational institutions began to place greater emphasis on the importance of religious education for Muslim children and adolescents—often, however, driven primarily by considerations related to integration policy or security concerns.[3] A key catalyst for this increased educational policy attention was the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
Based on the recommendations of the German Council of Science and Humanities in 2010,[4] centers and institutes for Islamic theology and Islamic religious studies were established at several university locations: Erlangen-Nuremberg, Frankfurt/Giessen, Münster, Osnabrück, Tübingen, Berlin, and Paderborn.
In retrospect, it can be stated that the establishment of Islamic theology in Germany was significantly initiated and shaped by Islamic religious education. As the first Islamic-theological discipline at German universities, IRE served as a trailblazer for the institutional recognition of the field as a whole. The demand of Muslim children and adolescents, as well as their parents, for school-based religious education was thus a central driving force behind this development. In this respect, IRE holds a pioneering mediating role between Islamic theology and the German higher education landscape.[5]
IRE has developed with reference to Protestant and Catholic religious education and constitutes a new discipline within the canon of Islamic-theological sciences. Its emergence is closely linked to the specific institutional, societal, and educational policy frameworks in Germany and Europe. In this sense, it can be regarded as a distinctly German or European project.
Alongside Islamic religious education, recent years have seen the emergence of another discipline that did not exist in this form within the classical Muslim scholarly tradition—although its subject areas were by no means unfamiliar to Muslim scholars: Islamic Practical Theology. This new discipline likewise draws on a Christian-theological model, namely Practical Theology.
Today, IRE is firmly established at all university locations offering Islamic theology in Germany. By contrast, IPT represents a still young and less developed addition to the range of disciplines within Islamic-theological study programs. At present, it is institutionally visible only in a few locations—Berlin and, more recently, Münster. The question of its profile is the subject of ongoing intensive academic debate. Both its institutional positioning within Islamic-theological study programs and the definition of its specific research subject are matters of controversial discussion within the scholarly community.
3. Disciplinary Profiles of Islamic Religious Education and Practical Theology
Religious education, as an academic discipline, engages in reflection on religious learning and educational processes throughout the entire human life course, across both formal and informal learning contexts. In the Christian context, religious education has developed into an interdisciplinary field with both theological and pedagogical foci, working in collaboration with a range of other disciplines. As a theological discipline, it interacts with exegetical, historical, and systematic-theological fields; as a pedagogical discipline, it engages with educational science and the social sciences. In addition, general religious studies—and, in the case of Islamic religious education, Islamic studies in particular—serve as important reference disciplines.
Thus, IRE is not merely an applied science, but an academic discipline in its own right with an independent research agenda. Its primary aim is therefore not—as is often assumed—the transmission of religious content at a child-appropriate level. Rather, it addresses the question of religious education and its objectives from anthropological, ethical, and pedagogical perspectives.[6] In addition, it is part of its mandate to reflect upon and substantiate its self-understanding from the perspective of the theory of science.[7]
From the perspective of Islamic religious education, religious education implies self-formation in the sense of the “cultivation of the self.” In this regard, individuals are regarded as subjects who have the right to be encouraged in the self-development of their intellectual, social, and spiritual potentials, and who are capable of making independent and self-responsible decisions and forming their own positions.[8] IRE thus aims at fostering the autonomy and maturity of learners.
The object of research in religious education in general, and in Islamic religious education in particular, encompasses all areas of religious upbringing, education, development, and socialization under contemporary societal conditions within global contexts.[9] It examines how people perceive religion and the testimonies of religious tradition, how they live them, and how they translate them into their actions and thinking. Harry Harun Behr refers to this as a process of translation between theological traditions—in the form of scripture, word, and creed—on the one hand, and the specific “situation” of Muslims (lifeworld, history, culture, and society) on the other.[10] Here, IRE acquires its critical dimension: the situation in which people live their faith attains theological significance and becomes a source of impulses for the generation of theologically relevant insights. The distinctive theological feature of IRE thus lies in incorporating situational insights into theology and rethinking or further developing theological norms. Religious practice and religious-educational theory therefore stand in a reciprocal relationship.
Islamic religious education, like Islamic practical theology, is developing in critical engagement with its Christian counterpart disciplines. Islamic practical theology likewise understands itself as a theology of lived religion. This refers not only to institutionalized religious practice, but to any form of religious life shaped by socioculturally mediated interpretive patterns.[11]
Birgit Weyel has formulated a definition of this self-understanding, viewing practical theology as a “hermeneutical science of lived religion.”[12] Thematically, Christian practical theology encompasses areas such as congregational formation, liturgy, preaching, spirituality, pastoral care, diakonia, and the communication of the Gospel— increasingly also in digital contexts. In recent years, its range of questions has expanded to include issues such as gender and sexuality, as well as the scholarly reflection on religion-related phenomena in the context of postcolonialism and critical theory.[13]
Despite the similarities in the fields of activity of the respective practical theologies, IPT faces distinctive substantive and theological challenges. Ali Ghandour,[14] for example, criticizes the frequent conflation of IPT with Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), as found in parts of the scholarly literature. Such an equation, he argues, is misleading because it not only ignores the historical discourse surrounding the concept of practical theology in the Christian context but also overlooks the fundamental differences in purpose and methodology: whereas fiqh normatively regulates human action, it does not develop a theory of practice itself but merely determines its concrete execution. A reflective external perspective on practice—constitutive for practical theology—is absent in fiqh.[15]
Moreover, reducing practical theology to jurisprudence is substantively insufficient: important areas such as homiletics, pastoral care, spirituality (e. g., in Sufism), non-normative rituals, and subjective religious practice remain unaddressed. Yet such aspects form part of the genuine core of a scholarly grounded practical theology. Furthermore, this conflation constitutes an ahistorical retrojection of a modern theological concept onto a premodern discipline whose emergence and context were based on entirely different premises.
Ghandour therefore proposes a definitional reorientation: “A Muslim practical theology perceives Muslim practice and theorizes it. It formulates approaches and theories that are suited both to investigating and to developing this object of research.”[16] Central to this is the fact that the term “Muslim” does not refer to an abstract system of “Islam,” but to the concrete practices of individuals who identify themselves as Muslims. With this distinction between “Muslim” and “Islamic,” Ghandour opposes essentialist conceptions of “Islam” and instead emphasizes a praxeological, subject-oriented approach.
A key aspect in Ghandour’s understanding of IPT is that it can only do justice to the diversity of Muslim practice if it consciously distances itself from essentialism. IPT must not conceive of Muslim practice as the expression of a fixed, ahistorical system called “Islam,” but rather as a multifaceted articulation of devotion (islām) by concrete subjects. For this reason, Ghandour attaches particular importance to the conceptual distinction between “Islamic” and “Muslim”: the latter refers to lived, subjectively understood practice and thus opens the way to an open-ended, non-reductionist theory-building. Engagement with this terminology is therefore not merely a terminological detail, but a constitutive element of the methodological self-understanding of a reflective IPT.[17]
A look back at the early period of Islam—at the time of the Prophet Muhammad—reveals that Islam was, above all, lived practice: there was neither a codified system nor a fully developed theology, but rather a community engaged in certain practices and interpreting them individually. Devotion (islām) found expression in diverse forms—without dogmatic restriction. This diversity persisted after the Prophet’s time, yet was increasingly overlaid by the emerging theological tradition, with theology itself not being identical to practice. The everyday religiosity of ordinary Muslims can therefore not be fully captured by systematic theology or fiqh.[18]
4. Research Areas
4.1. Research Areas in Islamic Religious Education
In the Christian context, religious education is primarily divided into two areas. Its sub-disciplines are congregational education, which focuses on pedagogical tasks within the faith community, and religious didactics, which reflects on teaching and learning processes in schools and religious education classes. In the field of Islamic religious education, a scientifically grounded congregational pedagogy has not yet been established; religious didactics, however, has been in the process of developing and consolidating its academic foundations for around 15 years.
In religious didactics today, learner-oriented and constructivist approaches are the general standard, and Islamic religious didactics likewise aligns itself with these paradigms. As yet, Islamic religious didactics is too young to have developed distinct research areas of its own. The following therefore outlines the areas that have emerged in the Christian context,[19] along with selected examples of related work. All of these research areas serve as a basis for theory-building in religious didactics. At the same time, it should be emphasized that the research fields of Islamic Religious Education are, overall, considerably broader; however, their comprehensive presentation cannot be provided here due to space constraints.
a) Development and Analysis of Religious-Didactical Approaches
Religious-didactical approaches are theories of religious education. In the Christian context, their development can be traced from approaches oriented toward instruction and proclamation to contemporary approaches centered on the learner and their specific context. In the field of Islamic religious didactics, this research area includes, for example, studies on child and youth theology,[20] performative religious education,[21] prophetic didactics aimed at fostering a sense of belonging,[22] experience-based prophetology,[23] hadith didactics,[24] Qur’an didactics,[25] interreligious didactics,[26] as well as competence-oriented didactical models in religious education processes and curricula.[27] Other works address theological-anthropological foundations of religious education, such as the Qur’anic view of the human being and the significance of the heart as the locus of religious knowledge and formation.[28] A broad range of didactical topics can also be found in edited volumes that present a wide variety of approaches.[29]
b) Classroom Research
Particularly for a young school subject such as Islamic religious education, scholarly monitoring and evaluation through empirical classroom research is of crucial importance for quality assurance and the further development of teaching. Empirical classroom research observes and describes the interaction processes between teachers and students, analyzing them in relation to characteristics of both students (learning prerequisites, strategies, and outcomes) and teachers (pedagogical competencies, subject knowledge, personality).[30] In the field of IRE, a considerable number of research projects have been conducted on the competencies of Islamic religious education teachers.[31]
c) Religion in Childhood and Adolescence
Questions concerning the religious orientations and attitudes of children and adolescents—both in light of the current religious landscape (secularization, individualization, pluralization, globalization, etc.) and with regard to categories such as gender, migration history, and age—play a crucial role in the development of religious-didactical approaches. This area includes, for example, research on the relationship to God among Muslim children,[32] the role of different learning contexts for religious education (family, mosque, school, and digital space) from the perspective of learners,[33] the views of pupils attending Islamic religious education classes,[34] as well as questions relating to the religious socialization and development of Muslim children and adolescents.[35]
d) Religious Education in Contexts of Plurality
The religious landscape in Germany is becoming increasingly diverse over time—not only at the level of religious communities, but also at the level of individuals. Religious pluralization is not only a societal and broadly political challenge, but also a concrete challenge for educational policy. This area includes research on interreligiosity and non-affiliation. For example, studies investigate cooperative forms of religious education and the development of interreligious competences among teachers and students in such contexts.[36] In addition, the implications of non-affiliation or irreligiosity for religious didactics are discussed.[37]
e) Heterogeneity and Inclusion
The heterogeneity of students has significantly changed the conditions and forms of religious teaching and learning in recent decades. Heterogeneity is therefore regarded as a central challenge for religious education.[38] An intersectional perspective on categories of difference takes into account diverse learning needs and prerequisites, such as dis/ability, migration history, sex, gender issues, age, social background, and academic ability.[39]
f) Public Religious Education, Politics, and Human Rights
“Public religious education”[40] reflects the recognition that religious education cannot be confined to the internal sphere of individual religious traditions. It must also, at the same time, be political education. The formation of religious subjects cannot take place solely in light of religious traditions but must also be oriented towards the broader framework of societal processes. In particular, the public dimension highlights the questions and challenges of the present that religious education must address to bring tradition and lived experience into critical and constructive dialogue.[41] Consequently, political issues—such as human rights education and citizenship education—also play a central role in religious-educational discourse.[42]
g) Informal and Non-Formal Religious Education
Religious learning takes place not only in formal contexts such as religious education classes, but also in informal contexts—that is, outside the institutionalized education system—such as within the family, during leisure activities, in the community, through the media, and so forth. Naturally, informal learning also occurs within formal educational institutions, outside formal learning settings such as the classroom. These informal learning processes are also relevant to school-based educational processes and are therefore increasingly being researched in the field of Islamic religious education.[43]
h) Media and Digital Education
The increasing digitalization of society, as a profound socio-cultural transformation process, also shapes Islamic religious education. Digital media and technologies have long since become an integral part of everyday life and significantly influence educational processes. The concept of “digital education” overlaps with that of “media education,” but additionally encompasses the specific challenges posed by digitality.[44] In the field of Islamic didactics, several studies already address this area—for instance, on media representations of Islam in adolescence,[45] on religious “meaning-fluencing” in social media,[46] on the religious socialization of Muslim youth in a mediatized world,[47] as well as on pedagogical and didactical perspectives regarding the use of artificial intelligence in Islamic religious education.[48]
i) Current Issues: Racism, Discrimination, and Religious Radicalization
Islamic religious education as a discipline is also faced with the task of addressing current challenges in a timely manner. Two phenomena must be highlighted here in particular: experiences of racism and discrimination, on the one hand, and current tendencies of religious radicalization, on the other. Research in this field deals, on the one hand, with the analysis of experiences of discrimination and exclusion among Muslim children and adolescents and, on the other hand, with pedagogical approaches to prevention and de-radicalization. The focus lies both on structural and institutional forms of anti-Muslim racism as well as on interpersonal experiences of discrimination, which influence religious learning and identity development.[49] In addition, attention is given to the question of how Islamic religious education can help to prevent Islamist radicalization.[50]
4.2. Research Areas in Islamic Practical Theology
The research focus of IPT is Muslim practice in its lived, social, and cultural diversity. Ali Ghandour approaches this subject from a practice-theoretical perspective, understanding practice—drawing on Andreas Reckwitz and Stefan Hirschauer—as the physical enactment of social phenomena, specifically, the articulated religious practice of Muslim subjects.[51] Practices are the identifiable forms of this enactment—such as concrete actions, interactions, and expressions of Muslim devotion (islām). Muslim practice thus refers to the entirety of practices in which Muslims participate individually or collectively, and which they themselves regard as expressions of their religious orientation.
The following presents an overview of empirical and conceptual research from the German-speaking context in the field of IPT, without claiming to be exhaustive.
a) Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy
Scholarly engagement with Muslim chaplaincy in the German-speaking context (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) has, over the past decade, become significantly more differentiated and professionalized. A central concern is the development of an independent form of Muslim chaplaincy that is both theologically grounded and contextually relevant. Contributions in this field aim to clarify fundamental concepts, objectives, and methodological approaches. It is frequently emphasized that “chaplaincy” is not an inherently Muslim term and therefore needs to be reinterpreted and developed both theologically and in practice.[52] This also brings into focus questions concerning religious practice, self-understanding, scholarly and conceptual development, interreligious and intercultural relevance in a plural society, as well as the possibilities for institutionalization.[53] The chaplaincy setting is understood as a space of trust and accompaniment in times of existential or spiritual crisis.[54]
Empirical studies show that Muslim chaplains operate in various fields—such as healthcare, the prison system, educational institutions, and emergency situations—where they provide spiritual support, enable emotional stabilization, and act as mediators in intercultural contexts.[55] These studies also highlight that chaplaincy encompasses not only spiritual and religious, but also social and psychosocial dimensions. At the same time, empirical findings reveal that Muslim chaplains often work in structurally precarious conditions, characterized by a lack of clear institutional affiliation, sustainable funding, standardized training pathways, and broad-based recognition.[56]
A recurring theme is the transformation from volunteer-based to professional Muslim chaplaincy within secular institutions. The development of university degree programs, continuing education courses, and certification schemes is widely discussed.[57] Tensions arise here between aligning with church-based professional models and seeking alternatives that are theologically legitimized from an Islamic perspective.
Many contributions emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, particularly with psychology, social pedagogy, medicine, and nursing science.[58] At the same time, attention is given to ensuring compatibility with interreligious and interprofessional discourses. One key finding is the context-specific nature of Muslim chaplaincy depending on the institutional setting—be it hospital, school, prison, asylum facility, or the military. Distinct requirements, target groups, and expectations shape chaplaincy practice in each field.
Another important theme is the diversity among Muslims themselves: chaplaincy must address both religious and secular or distanced attitudes and must avoid narrowing its scope to an exclusively Islamic-normative framework.[59]
b) Mosque Practice and Religious Spaces
Scholarly engagement with mosque practice and religious spaces examines the mosque as a complex, contested, and transformable site of religious, social, and educational practice.[60] The central questions concern how and for what purposes mosques are used, designed, and interpreted—both within lived everyday religion and in socio-political processes of negotiation.
A key theme is the mosque as a space of social experience. Various studies show that mosques are not only places of prayer but also spaces of education, socialization, networking, and cultural self-assurance. They provide—particularly for young people—safe spaces from discrimination.[61] They are often described as multifunctional, intergenerational places where religious and social practices are closely intertwined.[62] At the same time, mosques can also be sites of religious-political radicalization.[63]
Some studies examine the spatiality of mosques in both the literal and figurative sense, addressing their architectural, institutional, and symbolic dimensions. Koch and Reinig,[64] for instance, demonstrate that many mosques struggle with significant infrastructural deficiencies and a shortage of adequate space. At the same time, ethnographic studies highlight that mosques also function as symbolic spaces of meaning-making—serving, for example, as a “home of the religious”[65] or as “relational spaces” for negotiating difference.[66]
Another central area of inquiry concerns religious authority and theological interpretive power within mosque communities. Studies show that processes of canonizing theological knowledge in practice often encounter resistance—depending on the extent to which such knowledge is perceived as meaningful in the lived reality of community members.[67] Religious authority is not claimed exclusively by imams or theologians, but is frequently negotiated in the interplay between traditional notions, family expectations, personal experiences, and digital discourses.[68] Likewise, a “subjectivized everyday religiosity” can be traced within mosque contexts.[69]
A further approach is the exploration of virtual mosque spaces, which raises the question of how religious spaces can be digitally represented and made experientially accessible—while taking into account Islamic-theological conceptions and ritual functions.[70]
c) Preaching, Religious Communication, and Authority
In scholarly engagement with Muslim preaching practices, preaching is understood not merely as religious speech but as a social, performative, and authority-generating event.
Central to this is the question of preaching as a form of communication that mediates between textual fidelity, contextualization, and relevance to everyday life. An important area of research concerns the linguistic design and semantics of the sermon. Taheri,[71] for example, analyses German-language Shi‘i sermons in terms of their pragmatic-semantic structures, demonstrating how linguistic fields are used to convey and contextualize key theological content.
Another thematic focus lies in religious authority and pluralization. Preaching is increasingly becoming a site for intra-Muslim negotiations over religious normativity, power relations, and societal issues. Alongside traditionally trained scholars, new actors are emerging—such as young, locally socialized preachers who are more attuned to the language, needs, and lived realities of younger generations. In this context, the performative dimension of preaching also comes into focus. Preaching is understood not only as a linguistic act, but as an embodied, situated practice—embedded in space, ritual, and the relationship between preacher and audience.[72]
Part of the research also addresses the political dimension of Muslim sermons, for example within radical Islamist milieus. While religious content clearly predominates, political references appear only marginally and are always embedded within a religious internal logic, rendering political engagement secondary to the concern for salvation in the hereafter.[73]
d) Social Work, Youth, and Muslim Life
This area addresses, among other topics, the engagement with racism in social work involving Muslims.[74] Research in this field highlights the need for professional, culturally sensitive, and structurally embedded social work that takes experiences of discrimination into account and fosters empowerment—particularly in work with Muslim girls and women.[75] The role of social work in preventing radicalization is also discussed,[76] as its contribution to integration processes.[77] Another aspect concerns the competencies required for effective social practice.[78]
5. Conclusion
Although Islamic Religious Education and Islamic Practical Theology are both still at a comparatively early stage of development as academic disciplines, substantial progress has already been made in research. At the same time, numerous desiderata remain. Two central thematic focal points can be identified: first, the internal religious dynamic—namely, the ongoing advancement and profiling of the two fields themselves; and second, the question of how IRE and IPT can contribute to the lives of Muslims in a non-Muslim majority society—whether by fostering religious maturity, strengthening participation and belonging, or engaging constructively with the challenges of a plural society. These two questions will, at least in the foreseeable future, continue to represent the central challenges shaping research in both fields.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- International Report
- Islamic Religious Education and Practical Theology: Disciplinary Profiles and Key Research Areas in the German-Speaking Context
- Research Articles
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- International Report
- Islamic Religious Education and Practical Theology: Disciplinary Profiles and Key Research Areas in the German-Speaking Context
- Research Articles
- A Variety of Critical Connections: Qualitative Empirical Research in Flanders, Belgium on the Experiences of lgbtq+ Persons in the Roman Catholic Church
- Queer Theology on Social Media: A Reflection on Queer Pastoral Influencers on Instagram
- Your Story: Exploring the Faith Journeys of Young Australians
- Border Thinking in the Training of Imams and Muslim Caregivers
- Islamische Militärseelsorge in Deutschland zwischen Kriegs- und Friedensethik
- German “Kirchentheorie”: Theory of Church between doctrinal Ecclesiology and Social Sciences
- Pastoral Assembling: Expanding the Notion of Pastoral Imagination
- Book Reviews
- James Emery White, Hybrid Church: Rethinking the Church for a Post-Christian Digital Age, Grand Rapids (Zondervan Reflective) 2023, 230 pp., ISBN 978-0-310-14297-3, $13.66
- Jones, Jeffrey D., and Fredrickson, David. Being Church in a Liminal Time: Remembering, Letting Go, Resurrecting, Blue Ridge Summit (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2023), 128 pp., ISBN 9781538174500, £16.99, (pb) $22 USD
- Amy Panton, Soul Care for Self-Injury: Theological Reflection and Spiritual Care Strategies, Toronto (Mad and Crip Theology Press) 2024, 269 pp., ISBN 978-1-0689061-0-7, $40.00 CA.
- Munther Isaac, Christ in the Rubble. Faith, Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza, Grand Rapids (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.) 2025, 279 pp., ISBN 978–0802885548, $24.99