The Program in Comparative Religion is designed to give students:
- an understanding of the nature and role of religion in human societies, both past and present, both non-Western and Western,
- a grasp of the various methods used by scholars to describe and explain religion, and the means to assess achievements of these methods as well as develop new methods for increasing their knowledge of religious thought and practice, and
- an opportunity for raising questions about the present and future significance of religious thought and practice.
The program offers an undergraduate major/minor and a Master's degree in comparative religion.
WMU has the oldest comparative religion program in the state of Michigan, and the only department with a graduate program in comparative religion in Michigan.
