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 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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