Hector Avalos is a professor of religious studies at Iowa State University and former executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, a division of the Council for Secular Humanism. He specializes in biblical studies. His books include Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence; The End of Biblical Studies; and Se Puede Saber si Dios Existe? [Can One Know if God Exists?]. He also contributed chapters (“Yahweh Is a Moral Monster” and “Atheism Was Not the Cause of the Holocaust”) to The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails. He co-edited This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies.
| Website | http://www.philrs.iastate.edu/hector-avalos/ |
| Email address | havalos@iastate.edu |
| Phone number | 515-294-0051 |
| Categories | Beliefs & practices, Society & culture |
| Locations | Iowa, United States of America |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Languages | English |