Author:
Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Descriptionviii, 246 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:PART ONE. A BRIEF HISTORY OF MISOTHEISM -- PART TWO: SIX CASE STUDIES IN LITERARY MISOTHEISM: Absolute misotheism I : paganism, radicalism, and Algernon Swinburne's war against God -- Agonistic misotheism I : faith, doubt, and Zora Neale Hurston's resistance to God -- Agonistic misotheism II : bad fathers, historical crises, and Rebecca West's accusations against God -- Agonistic misotheism III : divine apathy, the Holocaust, and Elie Wiesel's wrestling with God -- Absolute misotheism II : perverse worshippers, divine avatars, and Peter Shaffer's attacks against God -- Absolute misotheism III : anticlericalism, deicide, and Philip Pullman's liberal crusade against God -- CONCLUSION.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-240) and index.
Note:While atheists have now become public figures, there is another and perhaps darker strain of religious rebellion that has remained out of sight - people who hate God.
