# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elaine-pagels
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:34:53.197Z

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name: "Elaine Pagels"
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description: "Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey, is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion Emeritus at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump