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...What I discovered after looking at pluralism on the international scene was that suddenly these questions were extremely important on the American scene," Eck says. She points to the 1965 immigration act as a turning point for the growth of religious diversity in America...
When the student population of Harvard began to include second-generation children of immigrants, Eck took notice of the shift...
...Eck has been a director of the Pluralism Project since 1991. The project has involved undergraduates and graduate students to do research on religious communities in their own hometowns. For four years, they have compiled data such as the number of Buddhist temples, mosques and other places of worship in cities like Minneapolis, Denver, Salt Lake City and Pittsburgh...
...first publication of the Pluralism Project is a CD-ROM titled "On Common Ground," which Eck says is an appropriate means of making the material accessible and useful to eighth graders and graduate students alike...
Recently, Eck has enlisted religion departments at other universities to assist in the project...