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Elaine Pagels, PhD, is an American religious historian, professor, writer, and speaker whose research centers on early Christianity and Gnosticism. Her book The Gnostic Gospels, published in 1979, examines the diversity and the divisions in the early Christian church, and the way women have been viewed throughout Jewish and Christian history.

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Finding My Religion / Religious Scholar Elaine Pagels on How the Newly Discovered Gospel of Judas Sheds New Light on the Dawn of Christianity

He's been despised for 20 centuries -- Judas Iscariot, the man who betrayed Jesus Christ for 30 pieces of silver. But in April 2006 the National Geographic Society revealed the contents of the Gospel of Judas, a manuscript that had been misplaced for nearly 1,700 years.

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Elaine Pagels Is Famous for Asking Hard Questions. Her Latest: ‘Why Religion?’

“You know, people have sometimes called me ‘Elaine Pagan’,” the Princeton University professor says during an interview with the Monitor, smiling as she reflects on the trajectory of her life’s work, her many orthodox critics, and her new book, “Why Religion? A Personal Story.”

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Elaine Pagels on Grief, Her #Metoo Story, and Why We Find Meaning in Religion

Acclaimed scholar Elaine Pagels is known for her work on the Gnostic Gospels and the origins of Christianity. Now in a beautiful, raw memoir she shows how that academic work was born out of loss and the struggle to find meaning.

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Elaine Pagels on What We Can Learn from Adam and Eve (Part One)

As a scholar of religion, Elaine Pagels has often found herself in the company of heretics...

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Historian of Religion Pagels Awarded National Humanities Medal

The official citation for the award honored Pagels “for her exploration of faith and its traditions. Through her study of ancient manuscripts and other scholarly work, she has generated new interest and dialogue about our contemporary search for knowledge and meaning.”

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Review: Elaine Pagels on What It Means to Be Human

...Elaine Pagels has spent much of her life answering questions about her interest in issues of faith and ritual, inquiries she boils down to one question, the title of her new memoir, Why Religion?

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A Scholar of Religion Confronts Her Own Grief

There is no template for grief. Religions offer frameworks, structures, rituals and prayers — but these, as Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University, makes abundantly clear in her new memoir, are no substitute for the inner work that the deaths of our loved ones force on us.

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How We Create Our Spirituality and How It Creates Us

The mystery undergirding lived reality — why we die, why we suffer, why we love — is at the heart of acclaimed historian Elaine Pagels’ new book, “Why Religion?: A Personal Story.”

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What Revelation Reveals

The Revelation of Zostrianos, found in 1945, tells how the young author, tormented by questions and overwhelmed by depression, walked alone ...

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The Gnostic Gospels

In December 1945 an Arab peasant made an astonishing archeological discovery in Upper Egypt...

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