Diana L. Eck

Diana Louise Eck (born July 5, 1945) is a scholar of religious studies who is the Fredric Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society and a 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, Darshan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras, A Ne…