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Dr. Cindy Visscher is a faculty specialist in the Department of Comparative Religion at �鶹��ý.

Visscher’s work includes an expansion of her thesis, “The impact of religious belief on health status: translating history, culture and religion into successful patient outcome”; and a case study of the religious aspects of the 1893 Columbian Exposition exploring inter-religious social interaction during the third wave of immigration in the United States. Her publications include, “Eye on Religion: Understanding the Cultural/Religious Mélange in Treating Japanese Patients” and “Eye on Religion: Understanding the Cultural/Religious Mélange in Treating Chinese Patients,” which were both included in a health and religion series in the Southern Medical Journal in 2006. “Health Care and Spirituality: Spiritually Sensitive Care of the Terminally Ill Muslim Patient” was published in the Interreligious Insight Journal in 2005.

She participated in a seminar in health and religion research with Harold Koenig, M.D., at Duke University in 2005, and was a Health Forum/American Hospital Association Healthy Communities Fellow for the 2001 program year. Visscher’s teaching experience includes:

• Religions of the World
• Principles of Sociology
• Modern Social Problems

In all three courses, she introduces �鶹��ýs to the importance of cultural understanding and how our worldviews affect perceptions of self, others and our experiences. She also teaches REL 3180: Death, Dying and Beyond.

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