Word: eck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Hindu Religion Diana L. Eck didn't "want to go to Paris with the Smith girls that to go to Paris" for her junior year abroad. Intead, she chose the Third World, and her junior year in Banaras. India started the Montana native on a trip that went halfway around the world and ended in a Harvard Faculty chair last fall...
...India is such a vibrantly visual culture." Eck says now, adding. "One reason I'm interested in the gods is because you see that in India--there's a careening life of the streets because it's a temperate climate...
...Eck says her central interest is popular religion--what people do--including pilgrimages and rituals...
...fascinated with pilgrimage places--they've collected the hope, faith and love for so many generations," she says. Currently Eck is writing a book on pilgrimage in India and planning another on rituals...
...Eck taught Foreign Cultures 12, "Sources of Indian Civilization," and Religion 12 this past semester and will teach a seminar on Mohandas K.Gandhi this spring. She says that students responded strongly to the section on Gandhi in Foreign Cultures 12 because he raised issues which are crucial for people today--non-violence, the transcendence of truth, and consumer restraint...