A history of the devil
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TextNew York Kodansha International c1996Description: vi, 377p.; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1568360819
- BL480 .M4813 1996
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Orig. pub. in slightly different form in France, c1993, as Histoire generale du diable by Editions Robert Laffont.. Translated from the French by Marc Romano, c1996..
1 The ambiguous demons of Oceania. 2 India: spared from evil. 3 Chkina 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
'"The biggest ruse of the devil is making us believe that he doesn't exist," claimed Baudelaire. On the contrary, argues bestselling French historian and critic Gerald Messadie, the true evil lies in the fact that we believe in him at all....a provocative exploration of the personification of evil through the ages and across cultures....'
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