While the problem of evil has preoccupied fervent Christians, Satan, the embodiment of evil within the Christian consciousnesses does not figure largely in the Old and New Testaments. As Christianity developed over various centuries in the West, the Devil slowly entered Christian mythology during the High Middle Ages as a formative part of the dichotomy between good and evil upon which Christianity functioned. Christians have imagined Satan in a multitude of ways, often constructing him as a grotesque figure marginalized by the hegemonic culture. The construction of the Other vis-a-vis the subaltern figure became inextricably linked with the Devil Continue reading...