Philip Layton Barlow is a Harvard-trained scholar who specializes in American religious history, religious geography, and Mormonism. In 2019, Barlow was appointed associate director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. Barlow was the first full-time professor of Mormon studies at a secular university as the inaugural Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University (USU), from 2007 to 2018.

A Thoughtful faith
1986
ISBN 9780939651009
Religion and public life in the midwest
2004
ISBN 9780759106314
Mormons and the Bible
1991
ISBN 9780195109719
The Oxford companion to the Bible
1993
ISBN 9780195046458