Satan in America :the Devil we know /W. Scott Poole.
Description
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.
xxvi, 243 p., [4] p. of plates :ill. ;24 cm.
Book Details
Author
Poole, W. Scott
Place Published
City
Lanham, Md.
Date Published
circa 2009
Publication Subjects
Devil--Social aspects--United States--History.
Devil--Political aspects--United States--History.
Devil--Christianity.
Good and evil--Social aspects--United States--History.
Good and evil--Political aspects--United States--History.
National characteristics, American.
Political culture--United States--History.
Violence--United States--History.