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About Jacob Barrett
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in Religion and Culture. My research examines how the American state governs intimate life through the intertwined discourses of religion and sexuality, revealing how concepts like religious freedom, marriage, and parental rights function as technologies of governance rather than neutral protections of individual liberty. In addition to my academic research and teaching, I work as the Director of Marketing and Publicity for the American Academy of Religion – Southeastern Region, and as Social Media and Community Outreach Director for the Center for the Study of Evangelicalism at the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs.NBN Episodes hosted by Jacob:
January 14, 2026
Empire of Print
Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media (Oxford UP, 2025) offers a fresh account of evangelical power by uncovering how the America…
August 28, 2025
Religion and the Domestication of Dissent
In its first edition, this book focused on the representations of Islam that circulated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks – representations that scholar…
July 21, 2025
Heaven Has a Wall
Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, “Heaven has a wall,” activists shout back, “Jesus …
June 24, 2025
Black Religion in the Madhouse
In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists li…
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…