Pagels Traverses Grief, Healing and the Nature of Belief in ‘Why Religion?’

April 16, 2019
Photo: Barbara Conviser

In her acclaimed 2018 book, Why Religion? A Personal Story, Elaine Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, interweaves her own account of unimaginable loss with the scholarly work that she loves, examining the spiritual dimension of human experience.

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