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Messadié, Gérald.
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Devil -- History.
Demonology -- History.
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A history of the dev...
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A history of the devil / Gerald Messadié ; translated from the French by Marc Romano.
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Messadié, Gérald.
New York : Kodansha International, 1997, c1993.
Subjects
Devil -- History.
Demonology -- History.
ISBN:
156836198X (pbk.) :
Description:
vi, 377 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
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Kapolei Public Library
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08/25/2017
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