Satan in America : the Devil we know /
W. Scott Poole.
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
- xxvi, 243 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Devil--Social aspects--History.--United States Devil--Political aspects--History.--United States Devil--Christianity. Good and evil--Social aspects--History.--United States Good and evil--Political aspects--History.--United States National characteristics, American. Political culture--History.--United States Violence--History.--United States
United States--Religious life and customs. United States--Civilization.