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Hating god : the untold story of misotheism / Bernard Schweizer.
LIBRA BT168 .S49 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Misotheism.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 246 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. A brief history of misotheism
- pt. 2. 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199751389
- 0199751382
- OCLC:
- 537641249
- Publisher Number:
- 99939986598
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