Satan in America: The Devil We KnowRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 16 нояб. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 274 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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The Devil Is Come Down inGreat Wrath The AmericanSatan in the Colonial andRevolutionary Worlds | 3 |
Darkness Invisible The Devil and American Revivalism | 33 |
The Devils of Daniel Webster Satanic Cultural Politics through World War I | 65 |
THE SATANIC CENTURY | 94 |
Casting Out Devils American Theology and Popular Religion Meets the Devil | 95 |
Hellhound on My Trail Satan and TwentiethCentury American Culture | 125 |
Lucifer Rising Satanic Panics and Culture Wars | 155 |
The Beast Satan and the Theology of American Empire | 185 |
Shame the Devil The Problem of Evil and American Cultural History | 213 |
A Bibliographic Essay | 221 |
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About the Author | 243 |
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