A history of the devil

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Main Author: Messadié, Gérald
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Kodansha International, 1997, c1993.
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245 1 2 |a A history of the devil /  |c Gerald Messadié ; translated from the French by Marc Romano. 
260 |a New York :  |b Kodansha International,  |c 1997, c1993. 
300 |a vi, 377 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
500 |a Translation of Histoire générale du diable. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-361) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Devil  |x History. 
650 0 |a Demonology  |x History. 
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