Word: eck
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...Eck said in a press release that her book is "theological in purpose and addresses head-on the questions of religious diversity and the interpretation of religious difference today...
...Eck said her book draws from both her personal experiences as a Christian, and from her academic research of other world religions. Her first book, Banaras, City of Light was a study of the sacred city of Banaras, India, and its significance for the Hindus who travel there on religious pilgrimages...
...Encountering God] I ask, `what does my encounter with Banaras and with the religious traditions I have studied as a scholar mean to me as a Christian who grew up in Bozeman, Montana?" Eck said...
According to her contemporaries, Eck's book is significant in asking the American public to view today's society from a fresh perspective...
...Eck encourages readers toward an 'imagined community' of diverse people, interdependently working to solve mutual, global concerns," said David Hester of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and director of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion...