A History of the Devil

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.

Contents

 * 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