Westar Institute

The Westar Institute, founded by Robert W. Funk in 1985, is a member-supported nonprofit educational institute with a twofold mission:[1]

  • To foster collaborative, cumulative research in religious studies
  • To communicate the results of the scholarship of religion to a broad, non-specialist public

Westar is located in Salem, Oregon, on the campus of Willamette University.[1] The institute has a publishing arm in the form of Polebridge Press, which publishes books, media, and two journals:[2]

  • Forum, an academic journal which publishes scholarly articles on the historical Jesus, Christian origins, and related fields.
  • The Fourth R, a bimonthly magazine that publishes religious studies research in nontechnical language for at a general audience.
  1. ^ a b "About Westar". Westar Institute. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  2. ^ "Westar Magazines". Retrieved 2013-07-16.