Nancy Auer Falk (Western Michigan University)

submitted: 1/4/95 (by mail)

Nancy Auer Falk
Professor of Comparative Religion
Department of Comparative Religion
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI   49008   USA

phones: 616-387-4393 (office)
        616-375-7409 (residence)
fax:    616-387-3999
email:  nancy.falk@wmich.edu

description of work:

Teaching: religion in modern India; religion in India (general); women in 
religion (India and cross-cultural).

Past Research: popular Buddhism in India (lay practice, relics, stupas); 
women in Buddhism (Buddhist nuns, laywomen).

Current Research: 19th century movements; "women's question"; religion 
and nationalism; communalism; contemporary women's groups and practices; 
Sarada Math and mission; Brahma Kumaris; Indian feminists; Keshab Chunder 
Sen; New Delhi; Vivekananda.

Languages: Sanskrit, Pali.