TY  - BOOK
AU  - Messadie,Gerald
TI  - A history of the devil
SN  - 9780752205137
AV  - BL480.M583.H578 1996 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Kodansha International
KW  - Devil
KW  - History
KW  - Demonology
N1  - 1 (pages 329-361) and index; 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; 2; https://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests
N2  - Translated from the French by Marc Romano. Originallly published in France in slightly different form in 1993 as Histoire Generale du Diable
ER  -