Diana L. Eck is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 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" Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation.