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Elaine Pagels
Dr. Elaine Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton. A multi-time New York Times best-selling author, she is most famous for The Gnostic Gospels. In her other books she writes on gnosticism and early Christianity, sexuality and politics, and the origins of Christian anti-Semitism. A MacArthur Genius grantee, Elaine was also the first woman admitted to a PhD in Religion at Harvard, a story she recounts in her autobiography Why Religion?