# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/diana-l-eck
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:24:28.199Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/diana-l-eck"
name: "Diana L. Eck"
slug: "diana-l-eck"
description: "Diana Louise Eck 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 New Religious America: How a Christian Country Became the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation, and \"India: A Sacred Geography.\" At Harvard, she is in the Department of South Asian Studies, the Committee on the Study of Religion, and is also a member of the Faculty of Divinity. She has been the chair for the Committee on the Study of Religion. She also served on the Humanities jury for the Infosys Prize in 2019."
tagline: "American theologian (born 1945)"
gender: "female"
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birthDate: "1945-07-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump