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Title Satan in America : the Devil we know / W. Scott Poole.
Author Poole, W. Scott, 1971-
Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  235.4 POO    Check Shelves
Description xxvi, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject 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.
ISBN 0742561720
9780742561724 : $26.95
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