In 2001, the mayor of Inglis, a small town in Florida, issued an eviction notice to “Satan, ruler of darkness, giver of evil, destroyer of what is good and just.” The town placed a written proclamation that commanded “all satanic and demonic entities to cease their activities and depart,” on new posts at each of the village's entrances (1–2). In 2003, Army Lt. General William Boykin famously characterized the War on Terror as pitting the United States—a “Christian nation”—against Islam, proclaiming that “the enemy is a spiritual enemy … the enemy is a guy named Satan” (15). More recently still, in 2010, the television evangelist Pat Robertson credited an earthquake that devastated Haiti to an eighteenth-century pact with the Devil. Satan, it seems, is alive and well in Christendom—particularly in the United States. And this is the starting point for Miguel De La Torre and Albert Hernandez in their Quest...

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