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A History of the Devil

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AuthorGerald Messadié
Original titleHistoire Générale du Diable
TranslatorMarc Romano
SeriesKodansha Globe Series
GenreReligion
History
Published1993 by (Kodansha International)
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1 June 1996 by (Kodansha America, Incorporated)
Media typeHardcover
Pages377
ISBN9781568361987
291.2/16
Preceded byL'incendiaire: Vie de Saul, apotre (1991) 
Followed byL'affaire Marie Madeleine (2001) 

A History of the Devil is a book by Gerald Messadié published in 1996. The book was originally published in France in 1993 as Histoire Générale du Diable, and was translated into English by Marc Romano.[1]

Contents

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  1. The Ambiguous Demons of Oceania
  2. India: Spared from Evil
  3. China and Japan: Exorcism through Writing
  4. Zoroaster, the First Ayatollahs, and the True Birth of the Devil
  5. Mesopotamia: The Appearance of Sin
  6. The Celts: Thirty-five Centuries without the Devil
  7. Greece: The Devil Driven Out by Democracy
  8. Rome: The Devil Banned
  9. Egypt: Unthinkable Damnation
  10. Africa: The Cradle of Religious Ecology
  11. The North American Indians: Land and Fatherland
  12. The Enigma of Quetzalcoatl: the Feathered Serpent, and the God-Who-Weeps
  13. Israel: Demons as the Heavenly Servants of the Modern Devil
  14. The Devil in the Early Church: The Confusion of Cause and Effect
  15. The Great Night of the West: From the Middle Ages to the French Revolution
  16. Islam: The Devil as State Functionary
  17. Modern Times and the God of Laziness, Hatred, and Nihilism

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