James B Bennett
James B. Bennett is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University, where he has taught since 2002. Prior to that, he was the Reach for Excellence Assistant Professor of Honors at the University of Oklahoma. From 2015 to 2020, he also served as Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies at Santa Clara University.
He received his PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University in 1999 and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Religion and Democracy at the University of Virginia and the Center for Religion and American Life at Yale University.
Jim Bennett is the author of Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans (Princeton University Press, 2005). His research presentations and publications have explored the intersections of religion and race in the United States, conflicts within American Christianity, religion in the American West, and most recently, new religious movements. His work has appeared in Religion and American Culture and Theology Today, as well as in several edited volumes.
His current research project is a study of the Anticult Movement in the United States during the second half of the twentieth-century. He is a mentor for the 2019-2020 cohort of Young Scholars in American Religion at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI, where he was a Young Scholar in the 2004-2005 cohort. He is also a co-founder of the Religion in the American West unit of the American Academy of Religion and started the Bay Area American Religion Group.
Source: University of Virginia - Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
