A History of the Devil

"A History of the Devil" is a book by Gerald Messadié published in 1996. It was originally published in France in 1993 as "Histoire Générale du Diable". It was translated into English by Marc Romano.

Contents

#The Ambiguous Demons of Oceania
#India: Spared from Evil
#China and Japan: Exorcism through Writing
#Zoroaster, 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