''A History of the Devil'' is a book by

Gerald Messadié Gerald Messadié (1931 – 5 July 2018) was a French scientific journalist, essayist and novelist. His work comprised historical novels, biographies, essays on the history of religions, and some science fiction work where esoterism takes a large ...

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.

#The Ambiguous Demons of Oceania #India: Spared from Evil #China and Japan: Exorcism through Writing #Zoroaster, 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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1996 non-fiction books Books about religion French-language books French non-fiction books {{reli-book-stub

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