Preface
Introduction
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 With God
Agonistic Misotheism I
Faith, Doubt, and Zora Neale Hurston's Secret War Against God
Agonistic Misotheism II
Bad Fathers, Historical Crises, and Rebecca West's Fluctuating
Attitude Towards God
Agonistic Misotheism III
Divine Apathy, the Holocaust, and Elie Wiesel Wrestling With
God
Absolute Misotheism II
Perverse Worshippers, Divine Artists, and Peter Shaffer's Plots
Against God
Absolute Misotheism III
Children, Deicide, and Philip Pullman's Liberal Crusade against
God
Conclusion
Bibliography
Bernard Schweizer is Associate Professor of English at Long Island University. He is the author of Rebecca West: Heroism, Rebellion, and the Female Epic and Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s.
"In Hating God, Bernard Schweizer distinguishes between
atheists---those who conclude from the arbitrary and cruel acts of
God that he does not exist---and misotheists---those who believe in
God but engage in a life-long struggle with his apparent
indifference to the world he has created. It is misotheists, those
who wrestle with God in the manner of Jacob and Job, who create the
rich literary tradition Schweizer so persuasively illuminates in
this
important book."--Stanley Fish, author of The Fugitive in Flight:
Faith, Liberalism, and Law in a Classic TV Show
"Bernard Schweizer makes a long overdue distinction between atheism
-- the denial of God's existence -- and misotheism -- the morally
inspired hatred of God, and, in the process, reintroduces us to
some of the most subversive religious thinkers who have ever lived,
from Friedrich Nietzsche to Gore Vidal and Zora Neale Hurston.
Hating God is one of the most exhilarating excursions into
religious studies that you will ever take!"
--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bright-Sided: How the Relentless
Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
"Schweizer skilfully plumbs pathology and pathos among real and
imagined agonizers."--The Journal of Theological Studies
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