Children of Lucifer tells the history of Satanism, from its earliest conception as polemical construct by the Christian Church to its eventual metamorphosis into an actual practiced religion.

• Acknowledgments


• Practical Indications for the Reader


• Introduction


• Chapter 1. The Christian Invention of Satanism


• Intermezzo 1. The Eighteenth Century: Death of Satan?


• Chapter 2. The Romantic Rehabilitation of Satan


• Chapter 3. Satan in Nineteenth-Century Counterculture


• Intermezzo 2. Charles Baudelaire: Litanies to Satan


• Chapter 4. Huysmans and Consorts


• Chapter 5. Unmasking the Synagogue of Satan


• Chapter 6. Unmasking the Synagogue of Satan (continued and concluded)


• Intermezzo 3. Nineteenth-Century Religious Satanism: Fact or Fiction?


• Chapter 7. Paths into the Twentieth Century


• Chapter 8. Tribulations of the Early Church


• Intermezzo 4. Adolescent Satanism, Metal Satanism, Cyber-Satanism


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Ruben van Luijk was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Children of Lucifer is based on his research as a PhD student at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University and as a research fellow at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Van Luijk is also active as a photographer, novelist and artist.