The figure of Satan/Lucifer has haunted history as villain, trickster, liberator, and scapegoat. To study Satan is to study power itself—how religions create enemies, how societies project fears, and how rebels reclaim symbols of defiance. This page gathers works in history, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and theology to help seekers see beyond superstition and discover how the Adversary has shaped culture, belief, and rebellion across the centuries.

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Note about the links below: We highly encourage people to support authors by buying books. At the same time, many of the books linked below are academic, which means expensive. Therefore, in order to ensure this resource page is as accessible as possible, where available the links below are to free pdf versions on sites like the Internet Archive and Project Guttenberg.

Core Readings:
History & Resistance

• Discipline and Punish — Michel Foucault (power, surveillance, and control)

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed — Paulo Freire (education as liberation)

• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle — Angela Davis (global struggles against oppression)

• Abolition. Feminism. Now. — Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie (abolitionist framework)

• Women, Race, & Class — Angel Davis

• The Women's Liberation Movement — edited by Kristina Schulz 

• Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital — Sharon Smith

• Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) — Dean Spade (practical guide)

• Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau (classic essay)

• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa — Walter Rodney

• Black Liberation Reading List — Pluto Press

• How to Be Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Paperback — Dr. Robin DiAngelo

• Queer Liberation Library

• Queer Resistance Reading List

• Indigenous Liberation Reading List

• Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Indigenous Liberation (Reading list of articles, books, videos, and podcasts)

• Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook — Mark Bray

• The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition  — Jeanelle K. Hope & Bill V. Mullen

• Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It — Shane Burley