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Devil: Movements, History, Cultures & Measurement

The devil is a mythical personification of evil as conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. Jeffrey Burton Russell states that the different conceptions of the Devil can be summed up as 1. a principle of evil independent from God, 2. an aspect of God, 3. a created being…

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Devil topic overview

The analysis highlights Movements, History, Cultures and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around Devil. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics
250
Source areas
16
Connected nodes
273
Extracted relationships
416
Related term clusters
53
Bridge connections
273

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 60 topics
Overview · 47 topics
Islam · 34 topics
Christianity · 22 topics
Mandaeism · 14 topics
Judaism · 12 topics
Names, titles, and epithets · 12 topics
Devil in moral philosophy · 11 topics
Buddhism · 10 topics
Gnostic religions · 10 topics
Zoroastrianism · 8 topics
Etymology · 4 topics
Definitions · 3 topics
Yazidism · 2 topics
Manichaeism · 1 topics
Sociologal and anthropological perspective · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

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Overview

Etymology

Definitions

History

Buddhism

Christianity

Gnostic religions

Islam

Judaism

Mandaeism

Manichaeism

Yazidism

Zoroastrianism

Sociologal and anthropological perspective

Devil in moral philosophy

Names, titles, and epithets

Sources

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Devil connects Entity context

The extracted context around Devil shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Devil → Accuser, Adversary, Ahriman, Arabic, Ash-Shaytan, Christianity, ChristianityKölski, Dark, Diabolos, Diabolus, German, Germany, God, Greek, Hell, Iblis, Iceland, IslamThe Lord, Jesus, Job Another extracted example is Devil → Alain, Albigensian Crusade, Armenia, Balkan, Balkans, Bogomil Dualism, Bogomilism, Bogomilite, Bogomilites, Borboritism, Cathar, Catharism, Cathars, Catholic Church, Christ, Cosmological, Durand, Fourth Council, Gnostic, God. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Devil

Top relations

related to Names, titles, and epithets · 50
Devil → Accuser, Adversary, Ahriman, Arabic, Ash-Shaytan, Christianity, ChristianityKölski, Dark, Diabolos, Diabolus, German, Germany, God, Greek, Hell, Iblis, Iceland, IslamThe Lord, Jesus, Job
related to Revival of Dualism in the Medieval Age · 43
Devil → Alain, Albigensian Crusade, Armenia, Balkan, Balkans, Bogomil Dualism, Bogomilism, Bogomilite, Bogomilites, Borboritism, Cathar, Catharism, Cathars, Catholic Church, Christ, Cosmological, Durand, Fourth Council, Gnostic, God
related to Pre-Historic period to Archaic period · 28
Devil → Ahura Mazda, Alienated, Among, Angra Mainyu, Around, Christianity, Egyptian, Even, Evil, God, Godhead, Godhead's, Good, Hindu, In Mesopotamia, Islam, Judaism, Manichaeism, Middle Eastern, Old Testament
related to Gnostic religions · 25
Devil → AD Gnostic, Apelles, Apocryphon, Catholic Encyclopedia, Creator, Creator God, Eusebius, Gnostic, Gnostic-influenced, God, Inspirer, Jewish, John, John Arendzen, Marcion, Marcions, Old Testament, One, Origin, Samael
related to Platonism and early Christianity in Antiquity · 25
Devil → According, Areopagite, Augustine, Christian, Christianity, Damascus, Demiurge, Details, God, Greek, Greek Platonism, Hippo, John, Matter, Neo-Platonists, Neoplatonic, One, Persian, Plato, Plato's
related to Judaism · 23
Devil → Achaemenid Empire, Book, Christian, Evil, God, God's, Godhead, Hebrew, Isaiah, Jewish, Job, Jubilees, Judaism, Lord, Mastema, Nonetheless, Numbers, Satan, Sons, The Devil
related to In Sufism and mysticism · 20
Devil → Absolute, Christian, Divine, Eden, Garden, God, God's, Iblis, Many, Occidental, One, Pharao, Quran, Since, Sufi, The Qur, Therefore, Thus, Uttering, Yet
related to Spread through Europe in late Antiquity and early Medieval Age · 19
Devil → Abstract, Christian, Christian's, Christians, Due, Early Middle Ages, Ephesians, European, German, Greek, Greeks, Jesus Christ, Jews, Justin Martyr, Mediterranean, Tatian, The Christians, Thus, Zeus
related to Islam · 17
Devil → According, Akin, Alusi, CE, God, God's, Gods, Iblis, In Islam, July, Mahmud, Modern, Quran, Shaitan, The Devil, Unlike, Unlike Christianity
related to Islamist movements · 15
Devil → Accordingly, Classical Islamic, Ghazali, God, God's, Islam, Islamists, Laden, Many Salafi, Muslim, Osama, Quran, Sina, Taimiyya, The Devil

Important terminology

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Important terminology

evil god satan iblis world angels good also christian christianity demons devils isbn one created thus god's sin angel dualism

Devil relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 416 structured relationships around Devil. Examples in this analysis include Devil → is a → mythical personification of evil as conceived in various cultures and religious traditions and Devil → is a → unique entity throughout the New Testament. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Devilis amythical personification of evil as conceived in various cultures and religious traditions0.90text
Devilis aunique entity throughout the New Testament0.90text
Devilis apersonification of evil0.90text
Devilis aopposite of God0.90text
devilinstance ofHenry Ansgar Kelly discusses various considerations and meanings that he has encountered in using terms0.80text
Sataninstance ofHenry Ansgar Kelly discusses various considerations and meanings that he has encountered in using terms0.80text
etcinstance ofHenry Ansgar Kelly discusses various considerations and meanings that he has encountered in using terms0.80text
Nestorianisminstance ofTheir true origin probably lies within earlier sects0.80text
Marcionisminstance ofTheir true origin probably lies within earlier sects0.80text
Borboritisminstance ofTheir true origin probably lies within earlier sects0.80text
who all share the notion of a docetic Jesusinstance ofTheir true origin probably lies within earlier sects0.80text
Devilrelated to BuddhismMāra0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Devil bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include God, Evil and Satan. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • world of darkness
    • Darkness
    • World
    • God
    • Created
    • Evil
    • According
    • Form
    • Good
    • Satan
    • Dualism
    • Fallen
    • Since
  • Devil
    • God
    • Evil
    • Satan
    • Christian
    • Thus
    • Created
    • Also
    • Good
    • Demons
    • One
    • Power
    • Angel
  • devil
    • God
    • Evil
    • Satan
    • Christian
    • Thus
    • Created
    • Also
    • Good
    • Demons
    • One
    • Power
    • Angel
  • fallen angel
    • Fallen
    • Angels
    • Satan
    • Created
    • Power
    • Later
    • Good
    • World
    • Christianity
    • Evil
    • God
    • Devil
  • the devil
    • God
    • Evil
    • Satan
    • Christian
    • Thus
    • Created
    • Also
    • Good
    • Demons
    • One
    • Power
    • Angel
  • angels
    • Fallen
    • Demons
    • Spirits
    • Iblis
    • World
    • God
    • God's
    • Devils
    • Created
    • Evil
    • Theology
    • Greek
  • the devil and tom walker
    • God
    • Evil
    • Satan
    • Christian
    • Thus
    • Created
    • Also
    • Good
    • Demons
    • One
    • Power
    • Angel
  • devil in moral philosophy
    • God
    • Evil
    • Satan
    • Christian
    • Thus
    • Created
    • Also
    • Good
    • Demons
    • One
    • Power
    • Angel

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Devil, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Devil with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Devil — History · splits 213 ⟂ 61
Devil — Overview · splits 226 ⟂ 48
Devil — Islam · splits 239 ⟂ 35
Devil — Christianity · splits 251 ⟂ 23
Devil — Mandaeism · splits 259 ⟂ 15
Devil — Judaism · splits 261 ⟂ 13
Devil — Names, titles, and epithets · splits 261 ⟂ 13
Devil — Devil in moral philosophy · splits 262 ⟂ 12
Devil — Buddhism · splits 263 ⟂ 11
Devil — Gnostic religions · splits 263 ⟂ 11
Devil — Zoroastrianism · splits 265 ⟂ 9
Devil — Sources · splits 268 ⟂ 6
Devil — Etymology · splits 269 ⟂ 5
Devil — Definitions · splits 270 ⟂ 4
Devil — Yazidism · splits 271 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Devil

Nodes274
Edges273
Triples416
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007299
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Devil to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Movements, History, Cultures & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Devil · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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