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...fascinated with pilgrimage places--they've collected the hope, faith and love for so many generations," she says. Currently Eck is writing a book on pilgrimage in India and planning another on rituals...
...Eck taught Foreign Cultures 12, "Sources of Indian Civilization," and Religion 12 this past semester and will teach a seminar on Mohandas K.Gandhi this spring. She says that students responded strongly to the section on Gandhi in Foreign Cultures 12 because he raised issues which are crucial for people today--non-violence, the transcendence of truth, and consumer restraint...
...Eck has climbed step-by-step up the Harvard ladder from graduate student to teaching follow to 20th tenured woman professor. She says that although she has not felt discrimination as a woman, "I do feel the same sort of frustration that any woman feels when they are working in largely male contexts...
...Eck began her study of Indian culture and religion in her sophomore year at Smith College, with a course on Modern Indian Thinkers. That summer she studied Hindu at the University of Wisconsin and then in the fall of 1965 left for Banaras, despite the continuing war between India and Pakistan...
...Eck returned to Banaras, a traditional city on the Ganges River, for research on her dissertation "It's one of the oldest cities in the world, probably 3000 years old or more and a very sacred one for Hindus," she says...