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Translator Marc Romano Series Kodansha Globe Series Published 1993 (Kodansha) | 3.8/5 Goodreads Country France Media type Hardcover Page count 377 ISBN 9781568361987 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Histoire Générale du Diable Published in English 1997 (Kodansha America, Incorporated) Demonology books The history of the Devil and the id, A celebration of demons, Satan, Fallen Angels and Spirit, Demon Possession & the Chri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A History of the Devil is a book by Gerald Messadié published in 1996. It was originally published in France in 1993 as Histoire Générale du Diable. It was translated into English by Marc Romano.
Contents
- The Ambiguous Demons of Oceania
- India: Spared from Evil
- China and Japan: Exorcism through Writing
- Zoroaster, the First Ayatollahs, and the True Birth of the Devil
- Mesopotamia: The Appearance of Sin
- The Celts: Thirty-five Centuries without the Devil
- Greece: The Devil Driven Out by Democracy
- Rome: The Devil Banned
- Egypt: Unthinkable Damnation
- Africa: The Cradle of Religious Ecology
- The North American Indians: Land and Fatherland
- The Enigma of Quetzalcoatl: the Feathered Serpent, and the God-Who-Weeps
- Israel: Demons as the Heavenly Servants of the Modern Devil
- The Devil in the Early Church: The Confusion of Cause and Effect
- The Great Night of the West: From the Middle Ages to the French Revolution
- Islam: The Devil as State Functionary
- Modern Times and the God of Laziness, Hatred, and Nihilism
References
A History of the Devil Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA