Word: eckes
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This year's conference focuses on the "new religious diversity of the United States." At yesterday's session, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck, director of the Pluralism Project, defined the venture as an exploration of "who we are as Americans...
Participants conduct research about religious communities across the United States, Eck said. The project attempts "to discern the ways in which plurality is both conspicuous and invisible in American public life...
...Eck defined pluralism as "an active engagement in diversity, an active seeking of understanding, a respect of values and commitments...
Committee members include Professor of English Marjorie Garber, associate dean of the faculty for affirmative action; Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck; Kahn Associate Professor of the History of Science Anne Harrington; and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes...
...Commitee on the Study of Religion, while not a department, functions in every way as an interdisciplinary department, with both an undergraduate concentration and a doctoral program of 140 doctoral students," Eck adds...