From 2013 to 2021, the Journal of Africana Religions awarded the Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions. An outside panel of five experts was appointed each year to be make the award. Though the award was discontinued during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are proud to have overseen this award during our first decade of publication.
2021: Solimar Otero, Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Columbia University Press 2020)
2020: Spencer Dew, The Aliites: Race and Law in the Religions of Noble Drew Ali (University of Chicago Press 2019)
2019: Bruce Haynes, The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America (NYU Press 2018)
2018: Pablo F. Gomez, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating KNowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (UNC Press 2017)
2017: Judith Weisenfeld, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity During the Great Migration (NYU Press 2016)
2016: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (Columbia University Press 2015)
2015: Cécile Fromont, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo (UNC Press 2014)
2014: Jacob S. Dorman, Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions (Oxford University Press 2013)
2013: Ras Michael Brown, African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry (Cambridge University Press 2012)