Diana L Eck
Biographic Data
| ID | 389453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana L Eck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana L |
| FAMILY NAME | Eck |
| SIGNATURE | ECK D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Portrait
The study of religion is a challenge. It means trying to understand the energies and visions that have created, undergirded, and sometimes disrupted the great civilizations and cultures of the world. It means studying the history and diversity of the ways people have shaped worlds of meaning in response to or relation to what they may call the ‘transcendent’, or in response to science and technology, or in response to other traditions of meaning.…
The Religious Gift
This talk examines our understandings of wealth and charity in the context of a traditional culture that value renunciation as a religious ideal
Negotiating Hindu Identities in America
Occupied with Nonviolence
Jean Zaru, the longtime activist and Quaker leader from Ramallah, here brings home the pain and central convictions that animate Christian nonviolence and activity today. Zaru vividly paints the complex realities faced by all parties in Palestine - Jews and Muslims and Christians, Israelis and Palestinians, women and men. Yet even as Zaru eloquently names the common misunderstandings of the history, present situation, and current policies of the …
Prospects for Pluralism
This paper addresses religious pluralism as an academic, civic, and theological challenge. Looking at religious communities in their connections and interrelations is a critical academic challenge for students of religion who would gain insight into the dynamics of religious life and identities today. The encounter of people from different religious traditions in hometown America has reshaped the context of religious life, calling for attention a…
On Common Ground
Combining text, video, graphics and music, this CD-ROM maps the diverse culture of faith in America. From a Hindu temple near Boston to the nation's oldest Islamic center in Iowa, it surveys Christian, Jewish, Jain, Sikh, Buddist, Islamic, Zoroastrian, African-American, and Pagan communities
Banaras
The imagined landscape
This is a study of the grammar of signification in the 'imagined landscape' of India, a landscape constructed of the pilgrimage places (tirthas) and pilgrimage networks that have long served to create a complex sense of place-locally, regionally, and nationally. Here I provide an overview of the patterns of signification that have generated this symbolic landscape characterised by its polycentricity, pluralism, and duplication. I look at the intr…
Devotion Divine
Banaras
"India's "Tīrthas
and the elaboration of the notion of tirtha in the locative ritual traditions of Hinduism
Religion in India
Journal Article RELIGION IN INDIA Get access God as Mother A Feminine Theology in India An Historical and Theological Study of the Brahmavaivarta Purāna. By CHEEVER MACKENZIE BROWNHartford, Vt Claude Stark & Co, 1974. xvii+264 pages. $15.00 L.C. No 74-76006. DIANA L ECK DIANA L ECK Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, June 197…
Banaras
"India's "Tīrthas
and the elaboration of the notion of tirtha in the locative ritual traditions of Hinduism
The imagined landscape
This is a study of the grammar of signification in the 'imagined landscape' of India, a landscape constructed of the pilgrimage places (tirthas) and pilgrimage networks that have long served to create a complex sense of place-locally, regionally, and nationally. Here I provide an overview of the patterns of signification that have generated this symbolic landscape characterised by its polycentricity, pluralism, and duplication. I look at the intr…
Prospects for Pluralism
This paper addresses religious pluralism as an academic, civic, and theological challenge. Looking at religious communities in their connections and interrelations is a critical academic challenge for students of religion who would gain insight into the dynamics of religious life and identities today. The encounter of people from different religious traditions in hometown America has reshaped the context of religious life, calling for attention a…
The Religious Gift
This talk examines our understandings of wealth and charity in the context of a traditional culture that value renunciation as a religious ideal
Banaras
Religion in India
Journal Article RELIGION IN INDIA Get access God as Mother A Feminine Theology in India An Historical and Theological Study of the Brahmavaivarta Purāna. By CHEEVER MACKENZIE BROWNHartford, Vt Claude Stark & Co, 1974. xvii+264 pages. $15.00 L.C. No 74-76006. DIANA L ECK DIANA L ECK Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, June 197…
"India's "Tīrthas
and the elaboration of the notion of tirtha in the locative ritual traditions of Hinduism
Banaras
Devotion Divine
Banaras
The imagined landscape
This is a study of the grammar of signification in the 'imagined landscape' of India, a landscape constructed of the pilgrimage places (tirthas) and pilgrimage networks that have long served to create a complex sense of place-locally, regionally, and nationally. Here I provide an overview of the patterns of signification that have generated this symbolic landscape characterised by its polycentricity, pluralism, and duplication. I look at the intr…
On Common Ground
Combining text, video, graphics and music, this CD-ROM maps the diverse culture of faith in America. From a Hindu temple near Boston to the nation's oldest Islamic center in Iowa, it surveys Christian, Jewish, Jain, Sikh, Buddist, Islamic, Zoroastrian, African-American, and Pagan communities
Prospects for Pluralism
This paper addresses religious pluralism as an academic, civic, and theological challenge. Looking at religious communities in their connections and interrelations is a critical academic challenge for students of religion who would gain insight into the dynamics of religious life and identities today. The encounter of people from different religious traditions in hometown America has reshaped the context of religious life, calling for attention a…
Occupied with Nonviolence
Jean Zaru, the longtime activist and Quaker leader from Ramallah, here brings home the pain and central convictions that animate Christian nonviolence and activity today. Zaru vividly paints the complex realities faced by all parties in Palestine - Jews and Muslims and Christians, Israelis and Palestinians, women and men. Yet even as Zaru eloquently names the common misunderstandings of the history, present situation, and current policies of the …
Negotiating Hindu Identities in America
The Religious Gift
This talk examines our understandings of wealth and charity in the context of a traditional culture that value renunciation as a religious ideal
Portrait
The study of religion is a challenge. It means trying to understand the energies and visions that have created, undergirded, and sometimes disrupted the great civilizations and cultures of the world. It means studying the history and diversity of the ways people have shaped worlds of meaning in response to or relation to what they may call the ‘transcendent’, or in response to science and technology, or in response to other traditions of meaning.…
Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Hinduism (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works)