A History of the Devil explained
Italic Title: | A History of the Devil |
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Author: | Gerald Messadié |
Title Orig: | Histoire Générale du Diable |
Orig Lang Code: | fr |
Translator: | Marc Romano |
Country: | France |
Series: | Kodansha Globe Series |
Genre: | Religion History |
Published: | 1993 by (Kodansha International) |
English Pub Date: | 1 June 1996 by (Kodansha America, Incorporated) |
Media Type: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 377 |
Isbn: | 9781568361987 |
Dewey: | 291.2/16 |
Preceded By: | L'incendiaire: Vie de Saul, apotre (1991) |
Followed By: | L'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
- 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
Notes and References
- Web site: Religion Book Review: A History of the Devil by Gerald Messadie, Author, John Urda, Editor, Marc Romano, Translator Kodansha America $27 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56836-081-2.