A history of the devil /
Messadie, Gerald,
A history of the devil / [print] Gerald Messadie ; translated from the French by Marc Romano. - New York : Kodansha International, (c)1996. - vi, 377 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
9780752205137 9781568360812
Devil--History.
Demonology--History.
BL480.M583.H578 1996
A history of the devil / [print] Gerald Messadie ; translated from the French by Marc Romano. - New York : Kodansha International, (c)1996. - vi, 377 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
9780752205137 9781568360812
Devil--History.
Demonology--History.
BL480.M583.H578 1996