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Additional Physical Format: | (OCoLC)938360527 |
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Material Type: | Document |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Deacy |
ISBN: | 9780191816192 0191816191 |
OCLC Number: | 944211445 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Introduction1: What is Christmas?2: Revisiting the Religious Origins and Essence of Christmas3: Is Christmas a 'Secular' Religion?4: Christmas as a Site of Implicit Religion5: Christmas Films as Repositories of the Sacred6: Reframing Christmas and the Religion of MaterialismBibliography |
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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...
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