Anna Sun on the 2014 Best First Book in the History of Religions

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.