A history of the devil
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New York :
Kodansha International,
1997, c1993.
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Table of 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.
