Department of Religion

Faculty Member	Research Areas
Poul Andersen Associate Professor	Chinese religions, Daoism, ritual theory, iconography
Helen Baroni Associate Professor; Department Chair	Japanese religions, Buddhism in America, new religious movements
Kristin Bloomer Assistant Professor	Hinduism, Catholicism, spirit possession, Tamil language, history and anthropology of religions, religion and the body, feminist and poststructuralist theory, South Asia
John Charlot Professor	Hawaiian and Polynesian religions, New Testament, religion and art, redaction and textual criticism
James Frankel Assistant Professor	Islam, Confucianism, comparative religion, mysticism
Ramdas Lamb Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor	Indian religions, Hindu monasticism, mysticism, religious ethics in contemporary society, ethnographic approaches to religion
Michel Mohr Assistant Professor; Graduate Chair	Japanese religions, with a special emphasis on the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, nondenominational approaches to religious experience, East Asian Buddhism
Lee Siegel Professor	Indian religions, classical Sanskrit literature and poetry, pedagogical methodologies in religious studies

Department of Religion | College of Arts and Humanities | Sakamaki Hall A311, 2530 Dole St., Honolulu, HI 96822