UID:
almafu_9961673434702883
Format:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-19-181619-1
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0-19-106955-8
Content:
This work develops critical links between modern representations of Christmas and the category of religion.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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
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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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-106956-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-875456-6
Language:
English
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