Thomas Brudholm is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Resentment's Virtue and co-editor of The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity and Emotions and Mass Atrocity.

Birgitte Schepelern Johansen is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and Center for Advanced Migration Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

"This book is a comprehensive, thoughtful review of various perspectives, sure to generate heated classroom debate and interesting scholarly responses." -- M. R. Michelson, Menlo College, Choice

"Hate crimes, and the legal response to bias-motivated violence, raise complex questions of law, philosophy, history, and theory. These issues present nothing less than the question of what kind of a society we wish to be. The essays gathered in this volume, from scholars across the curriculum and around the world, shed great light on these compelling issues for our time." -Frederick M. Lawrence, Distinguished Lecturer in Law, Georgetown Law

"This is a very welcome volume. Since so much writing on hatred is driven more by ideology than careful thinking and research, it is refreshing to find a volume that displays some of the best serious reflection on the topic that I have seen. The fact that it is interdisciplinary in nature adds greatly to its value." -Jeffrie Murphy, Regents' Professor of Law, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

"The Hebrew liturgy contains a prayer seeking forgiveness 'for causeless hatred.' But shouldn't any hatred be anathema? The contributors to this volume are bold enough and honest enough to problematize the entire question of hatred, and to rescue it from the unspeakable to consider its many aspects - legal, moral, and political. In doing so, they offer the reader a stunning opportunity to rethink the unthinkable - and to test our most fundamental assumptions against their most thoughtful analyses." -Lawrence Rosen, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University