I’m thrilled to announce that Faking Liberties has been announced a co-winner of the 2020 AAR book award for excellence in the study of religion in the analytical-descriptive studies category. It is a tremendous honor to receive this award, and also to share it with Daniel Dubuisson.

You can read the award announcement here.

I am also very excited to see so much work on Buddhism and other Asian religions in the list of awardees. This is a testament to the fact that scholars of Asian religions are increasingly proving that Asian traditions are really good to think with and theorize from.

On that note, I belatedly realize that I never announced the publication of my co-authored piece, “Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form,” out in the September 2020 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. My co-authors and I make a strong and explicit case for theorizing from Asian practices and traditions rather than simply assuming that theory is generated in Europe and then applied to other parts of the world. You can find it here; please contact me for a copy if you don’t have access.