Religious beliefs and behaviors represent another area of diversity and are an important consideration when working with older people and their families. As Diane Eck (2001) of the Harvard Pluralism Project noted, the United States has become the most religiously diverse nation in the world. In recent years, Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists, and followers of many other religions have arrived here from every part of the globe, radically altering the religious landscape of the United States