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Satan in America
The Devil We Know
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2009
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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. The idea of the monstrous and the bizarre providing cultural metaphors that interact with historical change is not new. Poole takes a new tack by examining this idea in conjunction with the concerns of American religious history. The book shows that both the range and the scope of American religiousness made theological evil an especially potent symbol. Satan appears repeatedly on the political, religious, and cultural landscape of the United States, a shadow self to the sunny image of American progress and idealism.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-6171-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0062-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
244
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01: The Devil Is Come Down inGreat Wrath”: The AmericanSatan in the Colonial andRevolutionary Worlds No access
Chapter 02: Darkness Invisible: The Devil and American Revivalism No access
Chapter 03: The Devils of Daniel Webster: Satanic Cultural Politics through World War I No access
Chapter 04: Casting Out Devils: American Theology and Popular Religion Meets the Devil No access
Chapter 05: Hellhound on My Trail: Satan and Twentieth-Century American Culture No access
Chapter 06: Lucifer Rising: Satanic Panics and Culture Wars No access
Chapter 07: The Beast: Satan and the Theology of American Empire No access
Epilogue: Shame the Devil: The Problem of Evil and American Cultural History No access Pages 213 - 220
Hunting the Devil: A Bibliographic Essay No access Pages 221 - 234
