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Last night students gathered in the home of Lowell House Master and Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck to sing, pray and feast, marking the high-point of the yearly Hindu festival of lights. In the amber glow of dozens of diya (ceremonial candles), students sat cross-legged on the carpeted floor, chanting bhajans (devotional songs), reading excerpts from sacred texts and sharing stories about the festivals they had known in their childhood...
...front of the room, under a hanging portrait of the god Shiva that Eck borrowed from the Fogg Museum, the students set up an altar to display silver figures of the three gods most associated with the festival—Lakshmi, Sarasvati and Durga—as well as candles, fresh flowers and plates of nuts...
...Divinity School is following the lead of other graduate religious programs, according to Professor of Comparative Religion Diana L. Eck...
...Divinity School] has never been a place where a person goes who wants to be an imam or a rabbi....the Christian ministry [has been] its heart,” said Eck, who is also the director of The Pluralism Project. The project—an effort to engage religious diversity—is under the Committee on the Study of Religion, which oversees the University’s religious studies...
Over 225 same-sex couples raced to file for their marriage licenses in Cambridge when the ruling took effect at midnight on May 17, but Eck and Austin opted to avoid the rush and have since announced plans to marry on July 4 in Memorial Church...