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Erik Butler

Researcher, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University

Erik Butler is a researcher at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. His most recent book is The Devil and His Advocates (2021).

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Spirituality and religion

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The Devil you don’t know: the Satan of the 19th century

Satan wasn’t always a wicked, horned figure. The Romantics imagined the Devil as a resourceful and well-spoken gentleman

by Erik Butler