Why Religion?: A Personal Story
By: Elaine Pagels
3.97
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do …
Want to Read"Times of mourning displace us from ordinary life."-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story
"I’d chosen Harvard because it was a secular university, where I wouldn’t be bombarded with church dogma."-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story
"Christmas lights, again, piercing like knives. The spirit of that season was never more remote than during those dark December days."-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story
"I knew that I could not possibly teach; the energy and clarity that teaching requires, which I'd always taken for granted, were gone."-Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story
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4.40
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20. Why Religion?: A Personal Story
By: Elaine Pagels
3.97
Format: 256 pages, ebook
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