Word: eck
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...event featured a screening of the 42-minute long documentary, as well as a question and answer session with Eck, Antell, and the three women featured in the film: Dr. Laila Al-Marayati, a Muslim, Dr. Shamita Das Dasgupta, a Hindu, and Mushim Ikeda-Nash, a Buddhist...
...Eck was asked by Antell to narrate this film. Additionally, Eck connected Antell with Al-Marayita and Das Dasgupta, active members of the Pluralism Project’s women’s networks conferences...
...Eck says in an e-mail that she thinks “film is an essential medium for communicating important ethical and religious ideas precisely because it is personal and up-close. It enables us to see and hear the thinking, the wrestling, even the doubts, that go into a complex faith and a commitment to public service...
...dialogue between the three women pictured and audience members has greatly inspired Eck’s and the Pluralism Project’s future research. Eck continues, “Listening carefully to the voices of women from America’s new religious and cultural minorities provides an essential perspective on the well-being of America in general. How are ‘we the people’ doing with the great experiment of democratic pluralism? These women really help...
...Harvard community in particular, the film may greatly contribute to students’ understanding of the “explicitly religious voices of these communities, especially women,” Eck writes. “Students yearn to see and hear real people struggling with issues of faith and service. Identity is a complex thing, with many overlapping ‘wes’—racial, social, religious, cultural. No simple idea of what being a ‘Muslim woman’ might mean can substitute for making [Al-Marayati’s] acquaintance and hearing...