Christmas As Religion
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Christmas As Religion
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Author : Christopher Deacy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Christmas As Religion written by Christopher Deacy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Religion categories.
This work develops critical links between modern representations of Christmas and the category of religion.
Christmas
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Author : Bruce David Forbes
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2007-10-10
Christmas written by Bruce David Forbes and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-10 with Religion categories.
"In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas-from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumer culture."--Page 2 of cover.
Toward The Origins Of Christmas
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Author : Susan K. Roll
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Release Date : 1995
Toward The Origins Of Christmas written by Susan K. Roll and has been published by Peeters Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Christmas categories.
Christmas exerts an enormous attraction today even apart from its Christian character as a celebration of the incarnation of God in the Person of Jesus. Even marginal or indifferent Christians crowd the churches on Christmas Eve and in highly commercialized and technologized Western societies the Christmas season is celebrated with enthousiasm. Yet Christmas entered the calendar of feasts relatively late, by 336 C.E., and the reason for its introduction and quick spread remain speculative and based on fragmentary evidence. Towards the Origins of Christmas addresses both the contemporary Western celebration of Christmas, and its deep historical roots in the church of the fourth century. The book presents a thorough investigation of the patristic texts and evidence cited by liturgical scholars in the late 19th and 20th centuries to support two main theories: the Calculation theory and the History of Religions theory. This historical research is set in the framework of the contemporary experience of Christmas; the dynamics of time and the liturgical year; the inculturation of liturgy; and underlying elements of dualism and patriarchal power paradigms which linger beneath the often commercial and sentimental character of Christmas today. Suzan K. Roll was born in Clarence Center, New York (USA) in 1952. She holds degrees in classical languages and pastoral theology, and in 1993 received a Ph. D. from the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Louvain (Leuven), Belgium, summa cum laude with the gratulations of the jury. She has thaught and published in the field of liturgy, sacraments, pastoral theology, and presently teaches at Christ the King Seminary, Buffalo, New York (USA).
Christmas
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Author : Donald Heinz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Christmas written by Donald Heinz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Religion categories.
Donald Heinz unearths the social practices and broader cultural history of Christmas, even as he traces the original and evolving incarnational theology that occasionally still shines through in our celebrations of Christmas.
Christmas In The Crosshairs
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Author : G. Q. Bowler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Christmas In The Crosshairs written by G. Q. Bowler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
Christmas, a global phenomenon adored by billions and a backbone of international trade, is the biggest single event on the planet. For Christians it is the second-most sacred date on the calendar. But whether one celebrates it or not, it engages billions of people who are caught up in its commercialism, music, sentiment, travel, and frenetic busyness. Since its controversial invention in the Roman Empire, Christmas has struggled with paganism, popular culture, fierce Christian opposition to its celebration, its abolition in Scotland and New England, and its neglect and near-death experience in the 1700s, only to be miraculously reinvented in the 1800s. The twentieth century saw it opposed by Bolsheviks, twisted by Hitler, and appropriated by every special interest group in the industrialized world. Lately it has been caught up in the cultural struggles between the left and the right in America, often misinterpreted as a war on Christmas, when the fight is really over whether religion in general will be allowed a public face. Gerry Bowler tells the fascinating story of the tug-of-war over Christmas, replete with cross-dressing priests, ranting Puritans, atheist witches, the League of the Militant Godless, aesthetic terrorists in Quebec and rap-singing Santa killers in Spain.
The Sacred Santa
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Author : Dell deChant
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2008-04-24
The Sacred Santa written by Dell deChant and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-24 with Religion categories.
The Feast Of Christmas
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Author : Joseph F. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2010-09-01
The Feast Of Christmas written by Joseph F. Kelly and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-01 with Religion categories.
Many Christians struggle to balance the religious and secular elements of Christmas, but the history of the feast shows that this is nothing new. The religious Christmas has changed over the centuries and, contrary to many critics, is thriving today. This brief, accessible account will explain that: The first Christians did not celebrate Christmas at all. The earliest mention of the feast occurs in the fourth century. In the Middle Ages Christmas moved into northern Europe where it became a major winter festival, competing with the pagan Yule. During the sixteenth century some Christians objected to Christmas because they claimed it had no biblical foundation. In England and New England the Puritans made it a crime to celebrate it! The modern secular Christmas arose in the nineteenth century, but the religious Christmas continued to grow in popularity and meshed well with the developing emphasis on Christmas as a day for family and friends. In today's world, rampant consumerism threatens the religious Christmas, but it continues not only to survive but to flourish, taking on new life and new forms. By tracing these and other aspects of the religious celebration of Christmas through the centuries, Joseph F. Kelly does much more than provide us with interesting facts. He reassures us that though the religious Christmas may not be in its traditional form, it is indeed alive and well, and has a bright and promising future.
The Public Work Of Christmas
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Author : Pamela E. Klassen
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2019-06-15
The Public Work Of Christmas written by Pamela E. Klassen and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-15 with Social Science categories.
Christmas is not a holiday just for Christians anymore, if it ever was. Embedded in calendars around the world and long a lucrative merchandising opportunity, Christmas enters multicultural, multi-religious public spaces, provoking both festivity and controversy, hospitality and hostility. The Public Work of Christmas provides a comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on the politics of Christmas in multicultural contexts ranging from a Jewish museum in Berlin to a shopping boulevard in Singapore. A seasonal celebration that is at once inclusive and assimilatory, Christmas offers a clarifying lens for considering the historical and ongoing intersections of multiculturalism, Christianity, and the nationalizing and racializing of religion. The essays gathered here examine how cathedrals, banquets, and carols serve as infrastructures of memory that hold up Christmas as a civic, yet unavoidably Christian holiday. At the same time, the authors show how the public work of Christmas depends on cultural forms that mark, mask, and resist the ongoing power of Christianity in the lives of Christians and non-Christians alike. Legislated into paid holidays and commodified into marketplaces, Christmas has arguably become more cultural than religious, making ever wider both its audience and the pool of workers who make it happen every year. The Public Work of Christmas articulates a fresh reading of Christmas – as fantasy, ethos, consumable product, site of memory, and terrain for the revival of exclusionary visions of nation and whiteness – at a time of renewed attention to the fragility of belonging in diverse societies. Contributors include Herman Bausinger (Tübingen), Marion Bowman (Open), Juliane Brauer (MPI Berlin), Simon Coleman (Toronto), Yaniv Feller (Wesleyan), Christian Marchetti (Tübingen), Helen Mo (Toronto), Katja Rakow (Utrecht), Sophie Reimers (Berlin), Tiina Sepp (Tartu), and Isaac Weiner (Ohio State).
Cards Carols Claus
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Author : Rex A. E. Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Release Date : 2015-05-12
Cards Carols Claus written by Rex A. E. Hunt and has been published by Wipf and Stock this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-12 with Religion categories.
The festival called Christmas is a celebration still 'under construction'. It is a weaving of story, myth, customs and ritual. Since its inception, it has been debated, ignored, celebrated, banned, and from the mid 1800s, reinvented. As such, it is the most human and lovable, and easily the most popular season of the year involving nearly all the population. The Christmas customs bring to the surface a kind of public 'everyday secular' spirituality that is beyond the power of Christianity or the institutional church to de ne or control. While it seems there will always be people for whom Christmas is a pious devotion rather than a festival or carnival--o en interpreting the biblical nativity narratives literally as the 'real Christmas story'--such people have always been in the minority. Indeed it may not be going too far to say that Christmas has always been an extremely difficult holiday to Christianise! In this exploration by one of the leaders of 'progressive Christianity' in Australia, author Rex Hunt shares a brief story of the celebration of Christmas as a global and hybrid celebration; focuses on the Australian celebrations of Christmas as expressed through such popular culture events as: (a) participation in Carols by Candlelight, (b) the sending and receiving of Christmas Cards and (c) the popularity and traditions around the 'red-and-white' Santa Claus; and o ers some of the suggestions and results from progressive biblical criticism of the birth narratives of Jesus/Yeshua of Nazareth and resulting doctrines from those narratives. Rex A. E. Hunt is a retired minister of the Uniting Church in Australia. He was Founding Director and Life Member of The Centre for Progressive Religious Thought, and Chair of The Common Dreams Conference of Religious Progressives, Australia and South Pacific. His web site of Liturgies and Sermons is visited regularly, by people from thirty five countries around the world.
Christmas
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc
Release Date : 2011-10-11
Christmas written by and has been published by Thomas Nelson Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with Religion categories.
A collection of inspirational thoughts combined with a sophisticated design to celebrate the holiest of nights. This beautiful gift book will make its way into your heart and your Christmas decor year after year. Well-loved verses from Luke intermingled with quotes from influential Christians, both past and present. Share thoughts such as “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God” from C. S. Lewis or these lines from Christina Rossetti: “Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, love divine. Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.”