Word: eck
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Mapping such widening diversity is a goal of Harvard University's Pluralism Project, run by religion professor Diana Eck. Students have located, among other things, seven Buddhist temples in Salt Lake City, two Sikh gurdwaras in Phoenix, Arizona, a Taoist temple in Denver, a Jain center in Blairstown, New Jersey, and five Oklahoma City mosques. The project estimates that nationwide there are 1,139 houses of worship for Muslims, 1,515 for Buddhists and 412 for Hindus...
...Diana L. Eck, chair of the Committee on theStudy of Religion at Harvard, said that religiousstudies at the University of Pennsylvania willsuffer because a disjointed department cannot beexpected to flourish...
...Eck said the study of religion "needs a homebase so that a cohesiveness dependent on a type ofdiscourse" can form between faculty members...
...Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck called on the first-year women to "pay attention to that deeper knowledge...knowledge of your own inner-most selves" and welcomed them in the name of the faculty...
...editor of the Newbury Street Guide did the same last month. Harvard Divinity School Professor Diana Eck made the same mistake but corrected herself during an introduction at Harvard Hall last year...