2025 Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize Winner

We are proud to announce the 2025 Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize winners, awarded to single-authored monograph.

This year’s winner is Seductive Spirits: Deliverance, Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking in Ghanaian Pentecostalism by Nathaneal J. Homewood.

This year’s honorable mention is Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World by Aslı Zengin.

A big heartfelt thanks to the book prize committee chair Ruth Goldstein (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and committee members Quinn Houlihan (University of Memphis), Roger Lancaster (George Mason University), and Dafna Rachok (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).