Word: eck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eck says her field work was a tremendous education since she met "a lot of very good people and Indians on a whole love to talk about religion," adding that because she studied there before the Hippie phenomena hit India, her group had a lot of interaction and were very welcome to the community...
After her year abroad, Eck graduated from Smith and spent a year on a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of London at the School of Oriental and African Studies...
...couldn't find a job and ended up working as a secretary in Harvard Square. "I decided that it was not for me though I did enjoy it, and if I was going to be sitting in a chair all day, I might as well be doing graduate work," Eck therefore enrolled in graduate school at Harvard to study comparative religion...
After returning several times to Banaras, Eck finished her dissertation, a study of its history, mythology and sacred signification for the Hindus. "It's written in a way that is somewhat an introduction to Indian religious culture, its temples Hindu--all 330 million of them," she quips...
...Eck says that her interest in the relationship between religion and several issues was shaped some what from her religious childhood. When she had worked on a work camp in Mexico and on an Indian reservation in Montana...