"Encountering God"

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This paper examines the book, "Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras", in which the author Diana L. Eck describes her spiritual journey from being a Methodist to the exploration, recognition, and realization of God that resulted in her own expansion and enlightenment of God. In particular, it looks at how the journey that is described in this book reflects acute knowledge relating to different religions of the world and how it gives insight of various religions and their beliefs and opens new dimensions of pluralism.

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"In Bozeman, Eck used to practice her life according to the Christian Methodist beliefs. Her social life in US depicted her Christian beliefs as a Methodist. However, early in her life, she moved to India, which she justifies as a means of understanding the Asians after the much-wronged Vietnam War that led many Americans to think about the Asians and the Asian culture. Eck was no different that those Americans, except that she decided to learn the difference personally. While in Banaras, India, she met many Hindus who worshiped many gods at a time. This was a new thing to Eck, polytheism is foreign to the Christian faith, however, these faiths does entail in them the element of power as well as the spiritual manifestation. These spiritual presence and the powers that it beholds made Eck rethink her won faith and belief regarding her religion Christianity."

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