A History of the Devil

Not to be confused with The Political History of the Devil, a 1726 book by Daniel Defoe also known as The 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.^[1]

Author	Gerald Messadié
Original title	Histoire Générale du Diable
Translator	Marc Romano
Series	Kodansha Globe Series
Genre	Religion History
Published	1993 by (Kodansha International)
Publication place	France
Published in English	1 June 1996 by (Kodansha America, Incorporated)
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	377
ISBN	9781568361987
Dewey Decimal	291.2/16
Preceded by	L'incendiaire: Vie de Saul, apotre (1991)
Followed by	L'affaire Marie Madeleine (2001)

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