Satan in America : the Devil we know / W. Scott Poole.
Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.Description: xxvi, 243 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780742561717 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0742561712 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780742561724 (pbk.)
- 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
- United States -- Religious life and customs
- United States -- Civilization
- National characteristics, American
- Political culture -- United States -- History
- Violence -- United States -- History
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- BT982 .P66 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.