Anna Sun talks to Religious Studies News about her book Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities (Princeton University Press), which won the American Academy of Religion’s 2014 Best First Book in the History of Religions award.
Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, assistant professor of religious studies at Stanford University and co-winner of AAR’s 2022 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award discusses her book The Souls of Women Folk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South.
Adam Lyons joins Kristian Petersen to discuss his award-winning book Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan which seamlessly blends in-depth fieldwork with meticulous archival research and is a profound meditation on the relationship between carcerality, religion, and the modern State.