HARVARD PROFESSOR DISCUSSES ‘A NEW RELIGIOUS AMERICA’ posted 9/9/04

Diana Eck, professor of comparative religions at Harvard University, will speak at 12:15 p.m. on Sept. 15 in the Adrian College Chapel, as part of the Convocation speaker series. The title of her speech is “A New Religious America.”

Eck is one of the country's foremost scholars of comparative religions. At Harvard, she is professor of comparative religion and Indian studies in the faculty of arts and sciences, and a member of the faculty of divinity. She is an outspoken voice in the struggle for religious tolerance and understanding in America and around the globe. Her speeches focus on common understanding between people of different faiths.

Her most recent book, “A New Religious America: How a ‘Christian Country’ Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation,” was published in 2001.

Convocation is free and open to the public.