“Those are big challenges in our age, not just how we live as co-citizens in societies with people of different faiths and different cultures - I mean, that's a big challenge itself - but how we think about all that as Christians, or as Jews, or as Muslims, or as Hindus. How do we think about the religious other? There's a theological dimension as well as a civic dimension to our pluralism.” PeopleThinkingWellsMeanDifferentBigsAgeChristianCultureChallengesReligiousCitizensJewDimensionsCivicsTheologicalDifferent CulturesPluralismBig ChallengesDifferent Faiths Author:Diana L. Eck
“India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is very visible. There are lots of temples, lots of Islamic centers, lots of gurdwaras, and lots of teachers.” MeanCultureSpiritualityReligiousTeacherIndiaDepthSurfaceVisibleIslamicTemplesReligious Life Author:Diana L. Eck
“Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted and enter into the ebb and flow of another culture, it certainly is one of the more valuable things that we do as human beings.” WorldHumansCultureHuman BeingsFlowValuableSeparationFamiliarGrantedEbb And FlowValuable Things Author:Diana L. Eck