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

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:
  • 1568360819
  • 9781568360812
  • 0752205137
  • 9780752205137
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BL480.H578 1996
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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