Word: eck
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...interest in the place or religions in modern societies led Eck to formulate the Pluralism Project, which, unlike her earlier, is focused on religious life in America. The project is an ongoing research endeavor designed to coordinate and examine various religious communities and centers throughout the United States...
...Eck says her interest shifted from the international scene to pluralism in America when the demographic composition of students at Harvard began to change in the late 1980s...
...What I discovered after looking at pluralism on the international scene was that suddenly these questions were extremely important on the American scene," Eck says. She points to the 1965 immigration act as a turning point for the growth of religious diversity in America...
When the student population of Harvard began to include second-generation children of immigrants, Eck took notice of the shift...
...Eck has been a director of the Pluralism Project since 1991. The project has involved undergraduates and graduate students to do research on religious communities in their own hometowns. For four years, they have compiled data such as the number of Buddhist temples, mosques and other places of worship in cities like Minneapolis, Denver, Salt Lake City and Pittsburgh...