#  What on Earth is “Pluralism” for American Life Today? 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 8, 2025** 

 01:00PM - 02:30PM EDT 

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 **Minot Room, Countway Library**  

 [10 Shattuck Street  
Boston, MA 02115  
United States



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Webinar link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93615718185

 

 

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Diana L. Eck is a Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Emerita at Harvard University and Frederic Wertham Research Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society. She is also founder and Director of the Pluralism Project, which for nearly 30 years has studied the changing religious landscape of America and its significance for American society. As a scholar of India, she has published Banaras, City of Light, Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, and India: A Sacred Geography. With the Pluralism Project, she turned her attention to the U.S. and has produced an extensive web-based resource for understanding multi-religious and multi-cultural America. On the subject of pluralism she has written Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras and A New Religious America: How A ‘Christian’ Country Has Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation. In 1998, she received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton for her work on religious pluralism in America and in 2011 she delivered the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh on “The Age of Pluralism.” Her talk and discussion will discuss “What on Earth is “Pluralism” for American Life Today?”

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