Diana L. Eck Biography

She is also a member of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies as well as the Faculty of Divinity. She received her B.A. from Smith College (1967) in Religion her M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies from the University of London (1968) in South Asian History and her Ph.D. from Harvard University (1976) in the Comparative Study of Religion. Eck and her partner Dorothy Austin are currently serving as Masters of Lowell House at Harvard.
Eck's work on India includes the books Banaras City of Light and Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India. With Devaki Jain she edited Speaking of Faith: Global Perspectives on Women Religion and Social Change a book which emerged from a jointly planned interfaith women's conference. With Fran‡oise Mallison she edited Devotion Divine: Bhakti Traditions from the Regions of India essays honoring the French Indology scholar Charlotte Vaudeville.
Eck's book Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras studies the question of religious difference in the context of Christian theology and the comparative study of religion. It addresses issues of Christian faith in a world of many faiths and more broadly the issues of religious diversity that challenge people of every faith.

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