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Satan in America : the Devil we know / W. Scott Poole.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poole, W. Scott, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Devil--Christianity.
- Devil.
- Devil--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Devil--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Good and evil--Political aspects--United States--History.
- Good and evil.
- Good and evil--Social aspects--United States--History.
- National characteristics, American.
- Political culture--United States--History.
- Political culture.
- Violence--United States--History.
- Violence.
- United States--Civilization.
- United States.
- United States--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Satan in America tells the story of America's complicated relationship with the devil. ""New light"" evangelists of the eighteenth century, enslaved African Americans, demagogic politicians, and modern American film-makers have used the devil to damn their enemies, explain the nature of evil and injustice, mount social crusades, construct a national identity, and express anxiety about matters as diverse as the threat of war to the dangers of deviant sexuality. W. Scott Poole's book shows that both the range and the scope of American religiousness made theological evil an especially potent symb
- Contents:
- Preface: "Night stalker" : American exceptionalism and the reality of evil
- "The Devil is come down in great wrath" : the American Satan in the colonial and Revolutionary worlds
- Darkness invisible : the Devil and American revivalism
- The devils of Daniel Webster : satanic cultural politics through World War I
- Casting out devils : American theology and popular religion meets the Devil
- Hellhound on my trail : Satan and twentieth-century American culture
- Lucifer rising : satanic panics and culture wars
- The beast : Satan and the theology of American empire
- Epilogue: Shame the Devil : the problem of evil and American cultural history
- Hunting the Devil : a bibliographic essay.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40170-4
- 9798765179871
- 1-282-52213-2
- 9786612522130
- 1-4422-0062-6
- OCLC:
- 647860688
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