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...Eck says in an e-mail that she thinks “film is an essential medium for communicating important ethical and religious ideas precisely because it is personal and up-close. It enables us to see and hear the thinking, the wrestling, even the doubts, that go into a complex faith and a commitment to public service...
...these significant struggles the film addresses is domestic violence against women, especially their vulnerability within their families and religious communities. Eck points out that “we understand that being ‘Hindu’ may involve a strong critique of Hindu institutions, and yet a sense that religion is very important to the women who come to Manushi [Mushim’s Buddhist women’s network] with issues of domestic abuse...
...terms of effecting change and communication, Eck believes “the dialogue was very productive, and revealing. Especially the comments from Shamita and Laila on the continuing difficulties they and their communities have faced in the aftermath of 9/11—trying to provide services and at the same time to deal with an extraordinary level of government surveillance and suspicion...
...Eck says she “started the Pluralism Project in order to extend [her] work and research on contemporary forms of religion into the United States, rather than just in India for Hinduism and Islam.” Recently, her studies have included understanding the lives and cultures of “the second generation of the post-1965 immigration, who came to college at Harvard [in the early 1990s...
Since then, the Pluralism Project has developed a CD-ROM, also narrated by Eck, and has coordinated several conferences to explore the roles of women in their newly developed religious communities. As for artistic expression of religious issues, the Project has sponsored photography exhibits of religious life and recently issued a “grant toward the production of a film called ‘New York Slaughterhouse’ that focuses on a slaughterhouse in NYC used by three religious communities,” Eck writes...