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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Deacy, Christopher. Christmas as religion. The relationship between sacred and secular. Corby : Oxford University Press 2016 (OCoLC)929590883 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Deacy |
ISBN: | 9780191069550 0191069558 9780191816192 0191816191 0198754566 9780198754565 |
OCLC Number: | 957616962 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) |
Contents: | Cover; Christmas as Religion: Rethinking Santa, the Secular, and the Sacred; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: The Parameters of this Book; 1: What is Christmas?; WHY IS CHRISTMAS SIGNIFICANT?; 2: Revisiting the Religious Origins and Essence of Christmas; THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTMAS; THE DICKENS CONNECTION; FROM SCROOGE TO SANTA . . .TO JESUS?; RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SANTA AND JESUS; 3: Is Christmas a 'Secular' Religion?; A REFRAMING OF THE PARAMETERS; CHRISTMAS JUNIOR CHOICE; RAMIFICATIONS FOR THE DEFINITION AND STUDY OF RELIGION. THE NEED TO MOVE AWAY FROM BINARIES4: Christmas as a Site of Implicit Religion; WHAT IS IMPLICIT RELIGION?; THE DISTINCTIVENESS AND IMPACT OF IMPLICIT RELIGION; HOW MIGHT CHRISTMAS FUNCTION AS A SITE OF IMPLICIT RELIGION?; 5: Christmas Films and the Persistence of the Supernatural; CHRISTMAS MOVIES AS VESSELS OF TRANSFORMATION AND RENEWAL; THE PARADOX OF ESCAPISM; CRITICAL VS. POPULAR INTERPRETATIONS OF CHRISTMAS FILMS; JUXTAPOSING THE TRANSCENDENT AND THE SECULAR; 6: Reframing Christmas and the Religion of Materialism; RELIGION AND CONSUMER CAPITALISM. CHRISTMAS'S INDISSOLUBLE ASSOCIATION WITH THE ECONOMYPROBLEMS WITH THE RELIGION OF COMMERCIALIZATION; FINDING THE SPIRITUAL IN THE MIDST OF THE MATERIAL: THE PARADOX OF CHRISTMAS FILMS; CONCLUSION: MOVING BEYOND THE MATERIAL; Bibliography; Index. |
Series Title: | UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books. |
Responsibility: | Christopher Deacy. |
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Deacy's book is abundantly topical and interesting-where it leaves questions unanswered, it lays a foundation for others to build upon. Christmas as Religion joins a growing body of scholarship on consumerism and other supposedly "secularized" cultural practices as religion by scholars such as Kathryn Lofton. Upper-level students may find Christmas as Religion an illuminating read to accompany a material example of Christmas as religion, such as oneof the films or books Deacy analyzes. * Leslie Ribovich, The Religion Journal * Deacy provides an innovative cultural study of Christmas. * Liam Sutherland, The Expository Times * We are all familiar with the complaint that Christmas has been emptied of its religious meaning as a result of secularism and consumerism. Christopher Deacy challenges this popular misconception in a stimulating book that offers an important correction to the work of Steve Bruce and others * Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper * Christopher Deacy provides an innovative cultural study of Christmas as multi-faceted modern festival, at least as practiced in the west. * Liam Sutherland, Expository Times * Read more...