Diana l eck biography
A new religious america: how a christian country has become the worlds most religiously diverse nation(harper sanfrancisco, 2001)...
Diana l eck biography
Diana L. Eck
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Emerita
Frederic Wertham Research Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society
Education
- BA, Smith College
- MA, University of London
- Postgraduate Diploma, Banaras Hindu University
- PhD, Harvard University
Profile
Diana Eck's academic work has a dual focus—India and America.
Her work on India focuses on popular religion, especially temples and places of pilgrimage, called tirthas. Her books include Banaras: City of Light and Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India and her most recent work, India: A Sacred Geography, published in
Her work on the United States focuses especially on the challenges of religious pluralism in a multireligious society.
Since , she has headed the Pluralism Project, which explores and interprets the religious dimensions of America's new immigration; the growth of Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, and Zoroastrian communitie