Elaine Pagels
Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize nominee

Elaine Pagels

Pagels is Harrington Spear Paine Foundation professor of religion at Princeton University and Pulitzer-nominated author of books on the pluralistic nature of early Christianity.

Archive: Elaine Pagels

Religion a Fit Subject for Mind and Soul

Yes, emphatically! We should teach comparative religion in public middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities....

By Elaine Pagels | March 8, 2007; 10:58 AM ET | Comments (107)

Message to Christians: Look Inward First

When people in our country, especially American Christians, challenge evil uses of Christian traditions, they will be taking the most important step

By Elaine Pagels | November 28, 2006; 05:32 PM ET | Comments (23)

Questions To Answer Before A Conversation

What we need to ask is what pressures generated each tradition's claims to monopoly, against whom such claims were made, and what is at stake in making them.

By Elaine Pagels | November 20, 2006; 12:00 PM ET | Comments (93)

 
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