Satan in America
Subtitle: the Devil we know
By: W. Scott Poole.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780742561717; 9781442200623
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; United States -- Religious life and customs; United States -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: "Night stalker" : American exceptionalism and the reality of evil; title: "The Devil is come down in great wrath" : the American Satan in the colonial and Revolutionary worlds; title: Darkness invisible : the Devil and American revivalism; title: The devils of Daniel Webster : satanic cultural politics through World War I; title: Casting out devils : American theology and popular religion meets the Devil; title: Hellhound on my trail : Satan and twentieth-century American culture; title: Lucifer rising : satanic panics and culture wars; title: The beast : Satan and the theology of American empire; title: Epilogue: Shame the Devil : the problem of evil and American cultural history; title: Hunting the Devil : a bibliographic essay.