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After returning several times to Banaras, Eck finished her dissertation, a study of its history, mythology and sacred signification for the Hindus. "It's written in a way that is somewhat an introduction to Indian religious culture, its temples Hindu--all 330 million of them," she quips...
...Eck says that her interest in the relationship between religion and several issues was shaped some what from her religious childhood. When she had worked on a work camp in Mexico and on an Indian reservation in Montana...
Besides the pilgrimages Eck loves the sense of intimacy in Indian culture because of the life in the streets. "Going through the streets of Cambridge, you have no idea what goes on in people's lives," she says...
...Banaras, however, as elsewhere in India people spend a lot of their lives outside their houses, buying and selling in the street and just sitting around with their neighbors, Eck says...
...fact, Eck sometimes finds herself reluctant to return to America "I like India I like living here. I like the personal quality of life and the pace of things," she explains. Coming home, she says she is always shocked by "stuff like the STAR Market...