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A history of the devil / Gerald Messadie ; translated from the French by Marc Romano. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Kodansha International, (c)1996.Description: vi, 377 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780752205137
  • 9781568360812
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL480.M583.H578 1996
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Contents:
India : spared from evil -- China and Japan : exorcism through writing -- Zoraster, 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.
Subject: Translated from the French by Marc Romano. Originallly published in France in slightly different form in 1993 as Histoire Generale du Diable.
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Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction BL480.M4813 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 31923001826664

The ambiguous demons of Oceania -- India : spared from evil -- China and Japan : exorcism through writing -- Zoraster, 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.

Translated from the French by Marc Romano. Originallly published in France in slightly different form in 1993 as Histoire Generale du Diable.

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