{"id":1096,"date":"2021-10-26T14:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:03:55","slug":"2021-apsa-religion-politics-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/2021-apsa-religion-politics-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 APSA Religion &amp; Politics Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=apsa_section11\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\n<p>Congratulations to our 2021 APSA Religion &amp; Politics Award Winners!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong>: Ajay Verghese (Taking Other Religions Seriously: A Comparative Survey of Hindus in India.\u00a0<em>Politics and Religion<\/em>\u00a013(3), 604-638)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable Mention<\/strong>: Andrew R. Lewis, William D. Blake, Stephen T. Mockabee, and Amanda Friesen (American Constitutional Faith and the Politics of Hermeneutics.\u00a0<em>Politics and Religion<\/em>\u00a013(1), 57-88)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner:<\/strong> Alexandra Blackman (&#8220;The Politicization of Faith: Settler Colonialism, Education, and\u00a0Political Identity in Tunisia\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable Mention: <\/strong>Alon Burstein (\u201cTerrorizing God\u2019s Enemies: The Influence of Religion on Terror Group Activity\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Hubert Morken Best Book in Religion and Politics Award<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner:\u00a0 <\/strong>Alexander Thurston,\u00a0<em>Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable Mentions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>John W. Compton,\u00a0<em>The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amanda Hollis-Brusky and Joshua Wilson,\u00a0<em>Separate but Faithful: The Christian Right\u2019s Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Weber Best Conference Paper in Religion and Politics Award<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Winner<\/strong>: Tugba Bozcaga &amp; Fotini Christia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable Mention<\/strong>: Kikue Hamayotsu<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar in Religion and Politics Award<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-winners:<\/strong> Jonathan Fox and Paul Djupe<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our 2021 APSA Religion &amp; Politics Award Winners! Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award Winner: Ajay Verghese (Taking Other Religions Seriously: A Comparative Survey of Hindus in India.\u00a0Politics and Religion\u00a013(3), 604-638) Honorable Mention: Andrew R. Lewis, William D. Blake, Stephen T. Mockabee, and Amanda Friesen (American Constitutional Faith and the Politics of Hermeneutics.\u00a0Politics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}