This is the first book to examine the influential relationship between the satanic panic - an episode of national hysteria over devil worship that gripped parts of the United States in the 1980s - conservative politics, and the mass media. It argues that the panic fueled the expansion of both tabloid media and conservative ideology, binding them together in powerful ways that still resonate in modern American society and discourse. While the book analyzes the decade’s rampant cultural fears over devil worship, it takes as its main focus the hundreds of accusations of satanic ritual abuse - a contemporary phenomenon that linked abuse to satanic cult practices - in America’s white middle-class suburban daycare centers.weiterlesen