Summary: <p>ELAINE PAGELS is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author, most recently, of Why Religion?: A Personal Story. The Conversation: <a href="https://www.edge.org/conversation/elaine_pagels-the-social-history-of-religion" rel="nofollow">https://www.edge.org/conversation/elaine_pagels-the-social-history-of-religion</a></p>
