Why Religion? A Personal Story by Elaine Pagels
A Personal Story
A candid personal memoir that intertwines grief and scholarship to explore why humans turn to religion and what it does for us. The author reflects on loss and on her study of early Christian texts to show how religious ideas can comfort and connect people while also being used to justify power, exclusion, and violence. Weaving personal experience with historical analysis, the book argues for an approach to faith that embraces doubt, empathy, humility, and ethical responsibility, and calls for greater openness to diverse interpretations of belief.
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- 2018
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