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Satan in America - The Devil We Know (Paperback)
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Satan in America - The Devil We Know (Paperback)
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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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