Jacob Barrett
@jakebarrett25.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill | Thinking about Religion, Sex, and Governance | Host at New Books Network - Religion | All Taylor Swift opinions are my own
https://thereluctantamericanist.com
https://thereluctantamericanist.com
I’m SO excited to be partnering with The Religion Department next month with a guest lecture on a Supreme Court case that I think is just as relevant today as it was 50 years ago! Come hang out with me on December 3!
Register: www.religiondepartment.com/offers/8NZYi...
Register: www.religiondepartment.com/offers/8NZYi...
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I’m SO excited to be partnering with The Religion Department next month with a guest lecture on a Supreme Court case that I think is just as relevant today as it was 50 years ago! Come hang out with me on December 3!
Register: www.religiondepartment.com/offers/8NZYi...
Register: www.religiondepartment.com/offers/8NZYi...
I have a lot of thoughts about Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl but even more about the discourse about the album! Why are people so worked up? Read my thoughts!
When Intimate Publics Shift: Understanding the Discourse around Taylor Swift's New Album thereluctantamericanist.com/2025/10/06/w...
When Intimate Publics Shift: Understanding the Discourse around Taylor Swift's New Album thereluctantamericanist.com/2025/10/06/w...
When Intimate Publics Shift: Understanding the Discourse around Taylor Swift’s New Album
As those who know me well (or, even those who have been around me for any length of time) know, I’m a Swiftie. And I was excited for The Life of a Showgirl like everyone else. I stayed up to …
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October 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I have a lot of thoughts about Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl but even more about the discourse about the album! Why are people so worked up? Read my thoughts!
When Intimate Publics Shift: Understanding the Discourse around Taylor Swift's New Album thereluctantamericanist.com/2025/10/06/w...
When Intimate Publics Shift: Understanding the Discourse around Taylor Swift's New Album thereluctantamericanist.com/2025/10/06/w...
Submission deadline extended to October 6! Proposals are just a paper title and 300 word abstract - submit!!
Find the full CFP at relse.org.
Find the full CFP at relse.org.
October 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Submission deadline extended to October 6! Proposals are just a paper title and 300 word abstract - submit!!
Find the full CFP at relse.org.
Find the full CFP at relse.org.
The CFP for the AAR-Southeast 2026 meeting at Furman University in Greenville, SC is due on October 1! Find the CFP at relse.org, and consider submitting to the Religions in America section!
Meeting is March 6-8 - hope to see your proposals!! Reach out with any questions!
Meeting is March 6-8 - hope to see your proposals!! Reach out with any questions!
September 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The CFP for the AAR-Southeast 2026 meeting at Furman University in Greenville, SC is due on October 1! Find the CFP at relse.org, and consider submitting to the Religions in America section!
Meeting is March 6-8 - hope to see your proposals!! Reach out with any questions!
Meeting is March 6-8 - hope to see your proposals!! Reach out with any questions!
My interview with @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social about the 2nd edition of Religion and the Domestication of Dissent is out! We chat about the book but more importantly we talk about the state of the field (spoiler: bleak) and what to do from the all-too-late place we're in now.
August 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
My interview with @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social about the 2nd edition of Religion and the Domestication of Dissent is out! We chat about the book but more importantly we talk about the state of the field (spoiler: bleak) and what to do from the all-too-late place we're in now.
Looking forward to this conversation taking place on Wednesday! It’s beyond time we start rethinking what graduate education in religious studies looks like if we hope to have a future as a field. Tune in, and register here: aarweb.org/event/future...
August 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Looking forward to this conversation taking place on Wednesday! It’s beyond time we start rethinking what graduate education in religious studies looks like if we hope to have a future as a field. Tune in, and register here: aarweb.org/event/future...
It was such a pleasure to talk with @bethhurd.bsky.social about her fantastic new book! It’s so important, so relevant, and SUCH a compelling read. Listen to our conversation anywhere you stream podcasts @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social in Religion!
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Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, "Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States" (U Chicago Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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July 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It was such a pleasure to talk with @bethhurd.bsky.social about her fantastic new book! It’s so important, so relevant, and SUCH a compelling read. Listen to our conversation anywhere you stream podcasts @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social in Religion!
newbooksnetwork.com/heaven-has-a...
newbooksnetwork.com/heaven-has-a...
It’s been a minute, but I’m back on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with @judithweisenfeld.com talking about her wonderful new book. I so enjoyed the conversation, and it’s always an honor to learn from Dr. Weisenfeld. Listen now anywhere you stream podcasts!
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Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" (NYU Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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June 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s been a minute, but I’m back on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with @judithweisenfeld.com talking about her wonderful new book. I so enjoyed the conversation, and it’s always an honor to learn from Dr. Weisenfeld. Listen now anywhere you stream podcasts!
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In my PhD Candidate era 🥂📚✨
May 6, 2025 at 1:19 AM
In my PhD Candidate era 🥂📚✨
End of year awards ceremony was a success, and I even took home the department’s teaching award! When they started reading student evaluations in the announcement, I was really hoping for my two favorite ones to make an appearance. Oh Gen Z, how I adore you 🫶💖
April 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
End of year awards ceremony was a success, and I even took home the department’s teaching award! When they started reading student evaluations in the announcement, I was really hoping for my two favorite ones to make an appearance. Oh Gen Z, how I adore you 🫶💖
I’m so excited to be part of this cohort! I’m looking forward to starting my new year with this crash course in public scholarship 🫡
Please put your virtual hands together for the intrepid cohort of religion, gender, and sexuality scholars selected for our January Intensive Public Scholarship Training, funded by the Carpenter Foundation! 👏 meet them below and www.sacred-writes.org/carpenter-co...
2025 Carpenter Cohorts — Sacred Writes
Sacred Writes’ trainings provide scholars with opportunities to acquire skills, identify resources, push disciplinary boundaries, and build communities of accountability and support to produce public ...
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December 31, 2024 at 2:01 AM
I’m so excited to be part of this cohort! I’m looking forward to starting my new year with this crash course in public scholarship 🫡
I think Disco loves when new books arrive just as much as I do 🪩💖📚
December 17, 2024 at 6:46 PM
I think Disco loves when new books arrive just as much as I do 🪩💖📚
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Several of the contributors are part of a panel on the book tonight at 5 in Conv Center 31-B. Join us if you’re not already home from #sblaar24
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November 25, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Several of the contributors are part of a panel on the book tonight at 5 in Conv Center 31-B. Join us if you’re not already home from #sblaar24
www.bloomsbury.com/us/teaching-...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/teaching-...
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Today at 12:30 PST in HB Aqua 300!
“Diagnosing Digital Archives: New Theories & Methods for Studying Religion Online”
How do we deal w the ever-evolving nature of digital religion & its expressions? The papers grapple w how to build, assess & derive new insights from digital archives. #sblaar24
“Diagnosing Digital Archives: New Theories & Methods for Studying Religion Online”
How do we deal w the ever-evolving nature of digital religion & its expressions? The papers grapple w how to build, assess & derive new insights from digital archives. #sblaar24
a man with the words impossible perhaps the archives are incomplete below him
Alt: Obi-Wan Keno I from Star Wars sits in the digital Jedi archive and says “impossible perhaps the archives are incomplete”
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November 23, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Today at 12:30 PST in HB Aqua 300!
“Diagnosing Digital Archives: New Theories & Methods for Studying Religion Online”
How do we deal w the ever-evolving nature of digital religion & its expressions? The papers grapple w how to build, assess & derive new insights from digital archives. #sblaar24
“Diagnosing Digital Archives: New Theories & Methods for Studying Religion Online”
How do we deal w the ever-evolving nature of digital religion & its expressions? The papers grapple w how to build, assess & derive new insights from digital archives. #sblaar24
The conference starts at baggage claim 😉
Land in San Diego and right away meet two former MA advisees (Sierra & Jacob) both doing PhDs at UNC — how cool is that?!
November 21, 2024 at 9:05 PM
The conference starts at baggage claim 😉
On my way to San Diego for AAR! Drop by my presentation on Saturday 12:30pm-2:30pm in the Hilton Bayfront Aqua 300 to hear about digital archives and computational analysis in my version of that vine that goes “WHY are you running?!”
November 21, 2024 at 3:57 PM
On my way to San Diego for AAR! Drop by my presentation on Saturday 12:30pm-2:30pm in the Hilton Bayfront Aqua 300 to hear about digital archives and computational analysis in my version of that vine that goes “WHY are you running?!”
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Our final roundtable session is this Saturday at 1pm! Join us for a conversation with an amazing group of scholars on interdisciplinary applications of religious studies.
November 20, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Our final roundtable session is this Saturday at 1pm! Join us for a conversation with an amazing group of scholars on interdisciplinary applications of religious studies.
New episode is out now! I chatted with M. Cooper Minister and Sarah Bloesch about the second edition of their textbook “Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods”
Listen now 👇
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Listen now 👇
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M. Cooper Minister and Sarah J. Bloesch, "Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods" (Bloomsbury, 2023) - New Books Network
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April 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM
New episode is out now! I chatted with M. Cooper Minister and Sarah Bloesch about the second edition of their textbook “Cultural Approaches to Studying Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods”
Listen now 👇
newbooksnetwork.com/cultural-app...
Listen now 👇
newbooksnetwork.com/cultural-app...
Had a blast talking w/ Leslie Dorrough Smith and Steven Ramey about their amazing new textbook! If you’re teaching World Religions anytime soon, get your hands on this book! It is so importantly different from other WR books!
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April 1, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Had a blast talking w/ Leslie Dorrough Smith and Steven Ramey about their amazing new textbook! If you’re teaching World Religions anytime soon, get your hands on this book! It is so importantly different from other WR books!
newbooksnetwork.com/religions-of-t…
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/religions-of-t…
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
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New textbook just published!
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February 19, 2024 at 9:12 AM
New textbook just published!
More info & order at 25% off quoting code RW here:
bit.ly/3T2qfre
@jakebarrett25.bsky.social @projectrs.bsky.social @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social @julieingersoll.bsky.social
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Excited to see this out! I wrote the first version several years and many political moments ago, but that almost makes the case study even more interesting. Find my article, as well as the whole special issue “Belief, Reconsidered” at the Implicit Religion site here: journal.equinoxpub.com/IR/index
November 24, 2023 at 3:09 PM
Excited to see this out! I wrote the first version several years and many political moments ago, but that almost makes the case study even more interesting. Find my article, as well as the whole special issue “Belief, Reconsidered” at the Implicit Religion site here: journal.equinoxpub.com/IR/index
Excited to be presenting at NAASR 2023 on Friday alongside these awesome people! See you in San Antonio!
November 13, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Excited to be presenting at NAASR 2023 on Friday alongside these awesome people! See you in San Antonio!
Very excited for this conversation to be out! I talked with Naomi Goldenberg about her volume "The End of Religion", unpacked her theory of religion as a vestigial state, and talked about the exciting new directions her theorizing is headed. Listen now!
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Podcast | Kathleen Mcphillips and Naomi Goldenberg, "The End of…
Subscribe for free. Kathleen Mcphillips and Naomi Goldenberg, "The End of Religion: Feminist Reappraisals of the State" (Routledge, 2020)
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November 8, 2023 at 3:28 PM
Very excited for this conversation to be out! I talked with Naomi Goldenberg about her volume "The End of Religion", unpacked her theory of religion as a vestigial state, and talked about the exciting new directions her theorizing is headed. Listen now!
newbooksnetwork.com/the-end-of-r...
newbooksnetwork.com/the-end-of-r...
My interview with Jason Bivins on his recent book “Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-politics and America’s Obsession with Religion” is out @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
It was a great conversation about the new framework for understanding politics + religion he is working towards! Listen now👇
It was a great conversation about the new framework for understanding politics + religion he is working towards! Listen now👇
Podcast | Jason C. Bivins, "Embattled America: The Rise of…
Subscribe for free. Jason C. Bivins, "Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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October 21, 2023 at 1:11 PM
My interview with Jason Bivins on his recent book “Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-politics and America’s Obsession with Religion” is out @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
It was a great conversation about the new framework for understanding politics + religion he is working towards! Listen now👇
It was a great conversation about the new framework for understanding politics + religion he is working towards! Listen now👇