Messadie, Gerald, <br/><br/>
A history of the devil / 
Gerald Messadie ; translated from the French by Marc Romano. 
 - New York :  Kodansha International,  (c)1996. 
 - vi, 377 pages ;  24 cm. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1568360819 9781568360812 0752205137 9780752205137 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Devil--History.<br/>Demonology--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL480.H578 1996