Christmas As Religion - Rethinking Santa, the Secular, and the Sacred

Zusatztext Christopher Deacy provides an innovative cultural study of Christmas as multi-faceted modern festival, at least as practiced in the west. Informationen zum Autor Dr Christopher Deacy is Reader in Theology & Religious Studies at the University of Kent. His publications include Screening the Afterlife: Theology, Eschatology, and Film (Routledge, 2012) and Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide (Wiley Blackwell, 2007). Klappentext This work develops critical links between modern representations of Christmas and the category of religion. Zusammenfassung This work develops critical links between modern representations of Christmas and the category of religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: What is Christmas? 2: Revisiting the Religious Origins and Essence of Christmas 3: Is Christmas a 'Secular' Religion? 4: Christmas as a Site of Implicit Religion 5: Christmas Films as Repositories of the Sacred 6: Reframing Christmas and the Religion of Materialism Bibliography

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• Authors: Christopher Deacy, Christopher (Reader in Theology & Religious Deacy, Deacy Christopher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2016
• EAN: 9780198754565
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875456-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General, Christianity, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion