Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

7/1/1972 - 9/30/1972

Funding Totals

$2,000.00 (approved)
$2,000.00 (awarded)


Investigation of Gnostic Texts: Religious Language as Symbols

FAIN: FT-11154-72

Princeton University (Princeton, NJ 08540-5228)
Elaine Pagels (Project Director: July 1972 to present)

A study of the origins of Western religions, focusing on some of the Gnostic texts discovered near Cairo, Egypt, in 1945. Particular attention is paid to the symbolic interpretation of religious language.