Maps of Heaven, Maps of Hell

Religious Terror as Memory from the Puritans to Stephen King

• Author(s): Edward Ingebretsen,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 278
• ISBN_10: 1317465253
  ISBN_13: 9781317465256
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Political Science / Peace , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... From its beginnings in Puritan sermonising to its prominent place in contemporary genre film and fiction, this book traces the use of terror in the American popular imagination. Entering American culture partly by way of religious sanction, it remains an important heart and mind shaping tool.