Diana L. Eck

Diana L. Eck (b. 1945 in Bozeman, Montana) is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, as well as a Master of Lowell House and the Director of The Pluralism Project, at Harvard University. Among other works, she is the author of "Banaras, City of Light," "Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India," "Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras," and A New Religious America: How a "Christian Country" Became the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation. At Harvard, she is in the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, the Committee on the Study of Religion, and is also a member of the Faculty of Divinity. She has been reappointed the chair for the Committee on the Study of Religion, a position which she held...