“We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.” PeopleChallengesTribes Author:Diana L. Eck
“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
“People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.” PeopleWorldCommunityBuddhistLandscapeImmigrants Author:Diana L. Eck
“What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.” PeopleWellsNews Author:Diana L. Eck
“People get tired of talking about American exceptionalism, but I think this is an extraordinary thing about the United States, that we are a nation of immigrants, first of all, that is built upon a pluralistic society of native people that were here to begin with. The issue of diversity is really with us from the beginning.” PeopleThinkingFirstsStatesNationsUnitedTalkingUnited StatesIssuesDiversityBuiltTiredExtraordinaryNativeImmigrantsExtraordinary ThingsExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Diana L. Eck
“There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in its Constitution, etc. But that's not the legal basis on which we're framed. So the flourishing of religion, of religious diversity, is really built into who we are.” PeopleStillsCountryChristianAmericaReligiousOughtDiversityBuiltBasesConstitutionConvictionPlentyWho We AreEtcFlourishingFramedReligious Diversity Author:Diana L. Eck
“The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are always undertaking spiritual journeys to visit the great shrines in the Himalayan tier of pilgrimage places; these places are called tirthas, a word that means "crossing place," a place where you can cross the river to the far shore but also cross over into another dimension of life. Cross over to heaven, in one sense it's used.” PeopleWayMeanSpiritualUsedHeavenCommonJourneyRiversCrossesIndiaSacredDimensionsShoreCrossingsUndertakingsPilgrimageSpiritual JourneyShrinesSacred Places Author:Diana L. Eck
“The practice of leaving settled society to undertake a spiritual journey, or a spiritual life really, is something that is much more common in India. Common especially to a certain phase of life, to the end of life. But not so unusual for younger people as well.” PeopleWellsEndsSpiritualCertainCommonPracticeJourneyIndiaLeavingUnusualSpiritual LifePhasesEnd Of LifeSpiritual JourneyPhases Of Life Author:Diana L. Eck