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Author Elaine Pagels Explores Why Humans Rely on Religious Belief

Why do people have faith in what they cannot see? Author Elaine Pagels explores the concept of religious belief, and shares her own experience with finding faith in the face of tragedy, in her new book, “Why Religion?” Jeffrey Brown caught up with Pagels at this year’s Miami Book Fair.

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Elaine Pagels
2018
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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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Meara Sharma
2018
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Elaine Pagels, "Why Religion?"

When Pagels, author of groundbreaking studies of the Gnostic Gospels, was asked, “Why religion?" she found that her own life illuminates both why she’s made a career of studying religious texts as well as why religion itself still exists in the supposedly secular 21st-century.

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Elaine Pagels
2018
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Why Religion? A Personal Story

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? These questions took on a new urgency for Pagels...

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Elaine Pagels
2020
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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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Michael J. O’Loughlin
2019
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Elaine Pagels: Religion Is Deeper Than Rational Thought

Elaine Pagels, author of Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation, discusses the influence and persistence of faith and religion in the 21st century and how faith is deeper than rational thought.

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Elaine Pagels
2012
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