xxiii, 259 pages ; 23 cm; Originally published: Boston : Beacon Press, ©1993. With new pref.; Preface 2003 --Preface 1993 --Bozeman to Banaras --Questions from the Passage to India --Frontiers of encounter --Meeting of East and West in America since the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions --The --Names of God --The --Meaning of God's manyness --The --Faces of God --Discovering the Incarnation in India --The --Breath of God --The --Fire and freedom of the spirit --Attention to God --The --Practice of prayer and meditation --"Is our God listening?" --Exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism --The --Imagined community --Spiritual independence and a wider sense of "we: --Notes --Selected readings --Index.; Diana Eck's work has become increasingly important in our ever-changing communities, as people of different faiths must negotiate how to live together peacefully. In Encountering God, Eck shows why dialogue with people of other faiths is crucial in today's interdependent world--globally, nationally, and even locally. She reveals how her own encounters with other religions have shaped and enlarged her Christian faith toward a bold new Christian pluralism.; 

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