Diana L. Eck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Diana L. Eck

American theologian

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1945

Place of Birth: Tacoma, Washington, United States

Profession: theologian, Indologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Diana L.
Eck (born 1945 in Bozeman, Montana) is a scholar of religious studies who is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University, as well as a former faculty dean of Lowell House and the Director of The Pluralism Project at Harvard.
Among other works, she is the author of Banaras, City of Light, Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras, and A New Religious America: How a Christian Country Became the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation.
At Harvard, she is in the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, the Committee on the Study of Religion, and is also a member of the Faculty of Divinity.
She has been reappointed the chair for the Committee on the Study of Religion, a position which she held from 1990 to 1998.
In March 2012, Diana authored her book India: A Sacred Geography.