Elaine Pagels discusses her book, “Why Religion?“, at Politics and Prose on 11/30/18.
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. The daughter and wife of scientists, Pagels was taught to trust the rational, but she found herself attracted to religious music and rituals for how they engaged the imagination. After the loss of her five-year-old son in 1987, followed by her husband’s death in an accident in 1988, Pagels turned to religion for help in facing her grief and anger. Interweaving the fascinating scholarship behind books such The Origin of Satan and Revelations with her own experiences, Pagels’s memoir is as emotionally affecting as it is thought-provoking.
Pagels is in conversation with Dr. Eric Motley, executive vice president at the Aspen In
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