“We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.” Quote by 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
“When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of religion is part of the blueprint for America, and that is the recipe for the religious diversity that we have today.” MayTodayAmericaReligiousPracticeTroubleDiversityNeighborGuaranteesImmigrantsRecipesBlueprintsFreedom Of ReligionReligious Diversity 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
“The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.” Has BeensAmericaIssuesIdentityCrisisWho We AreOngoingIdentity Crisis Author:Diana L. Eck
“We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.” BuiltStructureEstablishmentFreedom Of ReligionSturdyRudders 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 idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that.” IdeasStatesGovernmentUnitedUnited StatesFiguresInvolvedGet InvolvedState GovernmentUnited States Government Author:Diana L. Eck
“I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.” ThinkingOpportunityDemocracyEmbraceDiversePluralismDiverse Society Author:Diana L. Eck