Westar Institute

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

  • 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. The institute has a publishing arm in the form of Polebridge Press, which publishes books, media, and two journals:

  • 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.
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