Why Religion?
Author: Elaine Pagels
Renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels, who has devoted her career to studying gospels deemed heretical by the early church fathers, here recounts her own profound personal tragedy: within a year, she lost both her young son to a terminal illness and her husband to a hiking accident. Rather than evangelizing, Pagels explores why religion continues to endure in modern society and how it can help us to weather grief.
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