Satan in America : : the Devil we Know
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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.
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PUBLISHED
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: xxvi, 243 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1442200626 (electronic)
9780742561717 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742561712 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442200623 (electronic)
SUBJECTS
Devil -- History.
Devil -- History.
Devil -- Christianity.
Good and evil -- History.
Good and evil -- History.
Violence -- History.
Political culture -- History.
National characteristics, American.
United States -- Religious life and customs.
United States -- Civilization.