Format:
xii, 283 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen.
ISBN:
978-0-7735-5679-9
,
978-0-7735-5678-2
Series Statement:
Advancing studies in religion 7
Content:
"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 takes 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 those who do the work to 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."--
Additional Edition:
Online version Public work of Christmas Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019 ISBN 0773557954
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 978-0-7735-5795-6
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-0-7735-5796-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Weihnachten
;
Kulturvergleich
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Scheer, Monique 1967-
