Jason is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at North Carolina State University. He is a specialist in the religions of the United States, particularly the intersection of religions and politics since 1900. He is the author of: Embattled America: The Rise of Anti-Politics and America’s Obsession with Religion (Oxford University Press, 2022); “Spirits Rejoice!”: Jazz and American Religion (Oxford University Press, 2015), Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2008) and The Fracture of Good Order: Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), in addition to many articles on religion in America, religion and politics, and theory and method in the study of religion.