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About Jacob Barrett
I am a PhD student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Religion and Culture track. My research interests are grounded in questions about religion and governance, law, and the state and explored through contemporary examples from American politics. More specifically, I look at issues of religious freedom in the United States and the Supreme Court, placing the discourse on “religion and politics” within a discussion of performativity and authority to see the discursive and rhetorical tools used to create, maintain, and (re)negotiate terms of power and control. I aim to use computational analysis and the digital humanities to capture broad patterns in the outcomes and rhetoric of court decisions across time to demonstrate the dynamic nature of “religious freedom.” In addition to my academic research and teaching, I work as the Media and Communications Coordinator for the North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR) and the Director of Marketing and Publicity for the American Academy of Religion – Southeastern Region.Studying religion, theorizing about governance, and making use of computational analysis. @jakebarrett25 and https://thereluctantamericanis...
NBN Episodes hosted by Jacob:
July 21, 2024
Capitalist Humanitarianism
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the …
April 21, 2024
Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion
Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists (Bloomsbury, 2023) introduces students to the so-called classics of the f…
April 13, 2024
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion
Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Method (Bloomsbury, 2023) examines the analytic tools of scholars in religio…
March 31, 2024
Religions of the World
Religions of the World: Questions, Challenges, and New Directions (Equinox Publishing, 2024) is a world religions textbook that provides a critical in…
November 14, 2023
Christianity, Race, and Sport
This book provides a rigorously researched introduction to the relationship between Christianity, race, and sport in the United States. Christianity, …
November 8, 2023
The End of Religion
Feminist theory has enhanced and expanded the agency, influence, status and contributions of women throughout the globe. However, feminist critical an…
October 21, 2023
Embattled America
Histories of political religion since the 1960s often center on the rise of the powerful conservative evangelical voting bloc since the 1970s. One of …
July 1, 2023
Stereotyping Religion II
Building on the success of Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés, this follow up volume dismantles a further 10 widespread stereotypes and clichés…
April 15, 2023
At Home and Abroad
From right to left, notions of religion and religious freedom are fundamental to how many Americans have understood their country and themselves. Idea…
March 15, 2023
Religion and US Empire
The United States has been an empire since the time of its founding, and this empire is inextricably intertwined with American religion. Religion and …
February 14, 2023
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes
Indigenous Religious Traditions in Five Minutes (Equinox Publishing, 2022) edited by Molly H. Bassett and Natalie Avalos aims to answer many of the qu…