From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels Vintage Books, New York: 1979 pp. xiii-xxiii In December 1945 an Arab peasant made an astonishing archeological discovery in Upper Egypt. Rumors obscured ...

This chapter is part of a book that is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Few academic studies have acknowledged esotericism and Gnosticism in African American religion. The Nation of ...

You know, the list of acceptable books, the list of acceptable teachings, the rituals. Gnosticism is a term that's etymologically connected with the word "to know." It has the same root in English ...

or theology inconsistent with commonly accepted books. For a time, much of what we knew about the gnostic writings came ...

By Bruce Handy In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. By Abby McGanney Nolan How ...

It’s no secret that TikTok has the power to skyrocket book sales, and that’s thanks to a subcommunity called BookTok, which brings bibliophiles together virtually. Enthusiastic readers are ...

By Alexandra Jacobs The actor and renowned foodie talks about his eating habits and his food diary, and we look at the fiction and nonfiction titles up for the National Book Award. These ...

This gnostic liberalism, as Mounk demonstrates, demands that personal identity be entirely self-constructed, freed from ...

Yascha Mounk’s new book “The Identity Trap ... one that mirrors a larger ideological shift, which I’ll call “gnostic liberalism.” This mutation within liberal thought has reshaped ...