Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Evil and the Religious Imagination -- Bottom of the Universe: Dante and Evil -- The Three Faces of Satan in Islam -- Evil, Motherhood, and the Hindu Goddess Kali -- The Predicament of Evil: The Case of Dorje Shukden -- Awakening to Satanic Conspiracy: Rosemary's Baby and the Cult Next Door -- Part Two: Philosophical Responses to Evil -- Evil and Fault in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur -- The Abuse of Evil -- Evil, Reciprocity, and Rights -- How Banal Is Evil? -- Evil as Privation: Seeing Darkness, Hearing Silence -- Part Three: Deliver Us from Evil -- "For Your Own Good": Suffering and Evil in God's Plan according to One Hindu Theologian -- Can Evil Be Redeemed? Unorthodox Tensions in Eastern Orthodox Theology -- Desire: Between Good and Evil -- Evil: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.