Research and Publications

The Department of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University is proud to acknowledge publishing accomplishments and research areas.

Publications

• Faculty
• Graduate students
• Alumni
• ScholarWorks at WMU

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Research

Stephen Covell

• Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Alisa Perkins

• Islam in America

Diane Riggs

• Buddhist material culture

Rudolf Siebert

• Critical theory of religion of Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Alfred Sohn-Rethel, and Jürgen Habermas

Cindy Visscher

• Religious diversity and pluralism in the United States
• Spirituality, culture and health
• Interfaith relations

Kevin J. Wanner

• Medieval Christianity, with a particular focus on the pre and post-conversion religion and culture of Scandinavia

Brian C. Wilson

• American religious history and new religious movements
• Religion in the Midwest and in the Yankee Diaspora
• Spiritual biography