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Christmas as religion : rethinking Santa, the secular and the sacred /

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Christopher Deacy explores the premise that religion plays an elementary role in our understanding of the Christmas festival, but takes issue with much of the existing literature which is inclined to limit the contours and parameters of 'religion' to particular representations and manifest...

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Main Author: Deacy, Christopher (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books.
Subjects:
Christmas > History.
Religion and culture.
Noël > Histoire.
Religion et culture.
RELIGION > Holidays > Christian.
Christmas
Religion and culture
Religiosität
Säkularisierung
Weihnachten
Wertorientierung
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the parameters of this book
  • 1 What is Christmas
  • 2 Revisiting the religious origins and essence of Christmas
  • 3 Is Christmas a 'secular' religion?
  • 4 Christmas as a site of implicit religion
  • 5 Christmas films and the persistence of the supernatural
  • 6 Reframing Christmas and the religion of materialism.