Pluralism isn't just diversity; it's something we create out of this diversity..

What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well..

The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America..

I guess one of the things that is an advantage of the world in which we live is that I can at least I can have multiple homes. I can have that attach….

I grew up going around with family, camping and living in a very beautiful mountain valley, knowing the names of the mountains and the rivers. I thin….

When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of religion is part….

Be prepared for changes..

Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim..

We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S..

I was a young woman who had grown up in the mountains of Montana as a Protestant Methodist in a pretty good social gospel tradition. I became fascina….

If you went to the headwaters of most rivers of the United States, you'd have a wonderful naturalistic hike or trek, but you wouldn't find a shrine t….

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself..

My first intellectual challenge was to try to understand this incredible city of Banaras (also called Varanasi) in India and its meaning for Hindus. ….

There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in its Constitution, etc. But th….

People get tired of talking about American exceptionalism, but I think this is an extraordinary thing about the United States, that we are a nation o….

I will say that the power of being a stranger in someone else's religious community has its own lessons, really. It is something like the power of vi….

The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are alwa….

There are two great things that we need to find in life: one is love, probably the most important, and the second is work, and they compete with one ….

Places where one can experience some of that separation from the world of the familiar, to defamiliarize ourselves with what we take for granted and ….

India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is….

My whole worldview has changed because of the work that I do. Specifically, the way in which I appropriate my own faith as a Christian, and the way i….