A History of the Devil is a book by
Gerald Messadié published in 1996. The book was originally published in France in 1993 as Histoire Générale du Diable, and was translated into English by Marc Romano.[1]
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