Author: Joyce E. Salisbury
Joyce E. Salisbury is Frankenthal Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. Her most recent book is The Blood of Martyrs (Routledge, 2004). She is also the general editor of the award-winning six-volume Encyclopedia of Daily Life (Greenwood, 2004).
Do You Hate the God You Believe In?
Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism, by Bernard Schweizer (New York: Oxford Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-975138-9) 256 pp. Cloth $29.95. Modern theorists often pose a dichotomy of belief as “faith versus science,” but Bernard Schweizer’s book, Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism, reminds us that the situation is really more complicated. Before reviewing …