A History of the Devil

Not to be confused with The Political History of the Devil, a 1726 book by Daniel Defoe also known as The History of the Devil.
Author Gerald Messadié
Original title Histoire Générale du Diable
Translator Marc Romano
Country France
Series Kodansha Globe Series
Published 1993 (Kodansha International)
Published in English
1997 (Kodansha America, Incorporated)
Media type Hardcover
Pages 377
ISBN 9781568361987
291.2/16
Preceded by L'incendiaire: Vie de Saul, apotre (1991)
Followed by L'affaire Marie Madeleine (2001)

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

  1. The Ambiguous Demons of Oceania
  2. India: Spared from Evil
  3. China and Japan: Exorcism through Writing
  4. Zoroaster, the First Ayatollahs, and the True Birth of the Devil
  5. Mesopotamia: The Appearance of Sin
  6. The Celts: Thirty-five Centuries without the Devil
  7. Greece: The Devil Driven Out by Democracy
  8. Rome: The Devil Banned
  9. Egypt: Unthinkable Damnation
  10. Africa: The Cradle of Religious Ecology
  11. The North American Indians: Land and Fatherland
  12. The Enigma of Quetzalcoatl: the Feathered Serpent, and the God-Who-Weeps
  13. Israel: Demons as the Heavenly Servants of the Modern Devil
  14. The Devil in the Early Church: The Confusion of Cause and Effect
  15. The Great Night of the West: From the Middle Ages to the French Revolution
  16. Islam: The Devil as State Functionary
  17. Modern Times and the God of Laziness, Hatred, and Nihilism
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