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Satan in America : the Devil we know
- Title
- Satan in America : the Devil we know / W. Scott Poole.
- Author
- Poole, W. Scott, 1971-
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 09-5444 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxvi, 243 p., [4] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- United States > Civilization
- Devil > Social aspects > United States > History
- United States > Religious life and customs
- Violence > United States > History
- National characteristics, American
- Political culture > United States > History
- Devil > Christianity
- Devil > Political aspects > United States > History
- Good and evil > Social aspects > United States > History
- Good and evil > Political aspects > United States > History
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-5444
- ISBN
- 9780742561717 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0742561712 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009020062
- OCLC
- YBP 2009020062
- Author
- Poole, W. Scott, 1971-
- Title
- Satan in America : the Devil we know / W. Scott Poole.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-5444