Covering a period of two thousand years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies and anthropology to provide a multifaceted view of the devil over time.
The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition examines topics such as the devil's scriptural origins, medieval development, and role in witch-hunting and possession cases, as well as the influence of the demonic on contemporary issues like terrorism, political polarisation, and digital culture. Collectively, this volume demonstrates that the demonological imagination has served as part of the glue holding western societies together. While contexts, misfortunes and anxieties have shifted according to time and place, many of the dynamics that underlie the devil’s construction and detection have important continuities. This book, then, provides an innovative history of the anti-west—the west as seen through its anxieties, fears, and attempts to define and police itself and its boundaries.
With contributions from 28 leading scholars in the field, this volume is of interest to all students and scholars of the devil in the Western world.
1: Satan in Biblical Literature
Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler
2: The Myth of the Devil in the Early Church
Archie T. Wright
3: Experiences of Evil: The Devil in the Early Middle Ages
Peter Dendle
4: The Devil Theorised and Rationalised
Christopher S. Mackay
5: Devils, Community and its Boundaries
Michael D. Bailey
6: Placing Satan
Eileen Gardiner
7: The Devil’s Minions
David R. Winter
8: Satan and the Divine Plan: Politics, the Devil and the End of Days
Arthur H. Williamson
9: Producing Devil Knowledge: Experience, Theory and Evidence
Richard Raiswell
10: Communicating the Devil
Marion Gibson
11: Devil Finders
Jan Machielsen
12: Rituals of Contamination, Purification and Eradication
Ismael del Olmo
13: The Devil and Statecraft
Gary K. Waite
14: Satan, Sex and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Erika Gasser
15: Seeing Satan
Linda C. Hults
16: The Devil and Colonialism
Jutta Wimmler
17: “Evil and desirable”: Gothic Inversion and the Satanic Monster in 18th- and 19th-Century Fiction
Miranda Corcoran
18: The Devil, Protest and the Age of Revolution
Per Faxneld
19: The Devil and War, 1600-1920
David R. Lawrence
20: Devil, Temptation, Conscience, Emotion
Charlotte-Rose Millar
21: Conjuring the Devil: The Cinematic Satan, 1899-2020
W. Scott Poole
22: Humanising the Devil, c. 1850-2000
Karl Bell
23: The Emergence of a Satan Problem
Bill Ellis
24: Communities, Purity and Conspiracy
Sarah Hughes
25: Demons, Missionaries and Migrants
Johanneke Kroesbergen-Kamps
26: The Digital Devil
Philip L. Frana
27: Into the 21st Century
Robert L. Ivie
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