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...After Eck's speech, Wabash College Professor Raymond Williams, author of the definitive book on Asian religious diversity, gave a keynote address entitled "Charting New Religious Landscapes...
This year's conference focuses on the "new religious diversity of the United States." At yesterday's session, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck, director of the Pluralism Project, defined the venture as an exploration of "who we are as Americans...
Participants conduct research about religious communities across the United States, Eck said. The project attempts "to discern the ways in which plurality is both conspicuous and invisible in American public life...
...Eck defined pluralism as "an active engagement in diversity, an active seeking of understanding, a respect of values and commitments...
Yesterday Eck, Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion, spoke to a small but eager audience about religious pluralism and the influx of immigrants who practice Asian and Mid-Eastern faiths...