Celebrating The 12 Days of Christmas
Celebrating The 12 Days of Christmas

Author: Chris Marchand

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-10-10

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1532655339

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The song “The 12 Days of Christmas” is a mainstay of the holiday season, but the practice of celebrating Christmas as a twelve-day festival fell out of fashion long ago in most cultures. In Celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas, author Chris Marchand explores the history behind the season and individual feast days from December 25 to January 6, and then offers suggestions for how you can celebrate it with your family, church, or community. Along with this, he provides answers to many of the nagging questions surrounding the holiday, such as the history behind the twelve-days song, why December 25 was chosen as the date, and what to do about its supposedly pagan origins. The challenge before us is to first help people see Christmas as a holiday that begins, rather than ends, on December 25, and then to together figure out how to reinvent Christmas in the present by learning how it was celebrated in the past.

Culture & Progress:Esc V8
Culture & Progress:Esc V8

Author: Kenneth Thompson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1136479406

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First published in 2003. This final volume in the VIII-volume set titled The Early Sociology of Culture, deals with human culture, and confines itself neither to contemporary life nor to Western European civilization. The author argues that, if the volume demonstrates an inadequacy of the methods used in interpreting culture and progress, the study is justified. The chapters are separated into three parts: Culture and Culture Change; Theories of Progress and The Criteria of Progress.

How Christmas Became Christmas
How Christmas Became Christmas

Author: Nathaniel Parry

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1476688281

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In some respects, the contrasts of Christmas are what make it the most delightful time of the year. It is a time of generosity, kindness and peace on earth, with broad permission to indulge in food, drink and gifts. On the other hand, Christmas has become a battleground for raging culture wars, marred by debates about how it should be celebrated and acknowledged as a uniquely Christian holiday. This text argues that much of the animosity is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the holiday's core character. By tracing Christmas's origins as a pagan celebration of the winter solstice and its development in Europe's Christianization, this history explains that the true "reason for the season" has as much to do with the earth's movement around the sun as with the birth of Christ. Chapters chronicle how Christmas's magic and misrule link to the nativity, and why the carnival side of the holiday appears so separated from traditional Christian beliefs.

Catalogue
Catalogue

Author: New York Free Circulating Library. Bond Street Branch

Publisher:

Published: 1892

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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