Evil and the Malevolent

These collections of abstracts mostly (but not exclusively) concern Western ideas about evil. A subset included but also collected separately exclusively concerns Satanism and the Biblical Satan, at the way the idea of Satan developed in western christianity, how Satanism became associated with pre-Christian pagan religions, how the designation has been frequently adopted, beginning in the 18th-century, to signify non-conformity, and how conspiracy-theories of organized and nefarious devil worshippers continue to feature in popular culture.