Diana L. Eck

Diana L. Eck

Director, The Pluralism Project

"On Faith" panelist Diana L. Eck is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University and Director of The Pluralism Project . Her books about India include Banaras, City of Light and Darshan: Seeing the Divine Image in India (1982). Her book Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras (1993) won the Grawemeyer Book Award in Religion. With colleagues in The Pluralism Project , she also studies the changing religious landscape of America and has published A New Religious America : How a 'Christian' Country has become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation (2001). Close.

Diana L. Eck

Director, The Pluralism Project

"On Faith" panelist Diana L. Eck is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University and Director of The Pluralism Project . Her books about India include Banaras, City of Light and Darshan: Seeing the Divine Image in India (1982). more »

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