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Christmas as Religion - Rethinking Santa, the Secular, and the Sacred (Hardcover)
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Christmas as Religion - Rethinking Santa, the Secular, and the Sacred (Hardcover)
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In Christmas as Religion, Christopher Deacy explores the premise
that religion plays an elementary role in our understanding of the
Christmas festival, but takes issue with much of the existing
literature which is inclined to limit the contours and parameters
of 'religion' to particular representations and manifestations of
institutional forms of Christianity. 'Religion' is often tacitly
identified as having an ecclesiastical frame of reference, so that
if the Church is not deemed to play a central role in the practice
of Christmas for many people today then it can legitimately be
side-lined and relegated to the periphery of any discussion
relating to what Christmas 'means'. Deacy argues that such
approaches fail to take adequate stock of the manifold ways in
which people's beliefs and values take shape in modern society. For
example, Christmas films or radio programmes may comprise a
non-specifically Christian, but nonetheless religiously rich,
repository of beliefs, values, sentiments and aspirations.
Therefore, this book makes the case for laying to rest the
secularization thesis, with its simplistic assumption that religion
in Western society is undergoing a period of escalating and
irrevocable erosion, and to see instead that the secular may itself
be a repository of the religious. Rather than see Christmas as
comprising alternative or analogous forms of religious expression,
or dependent on any causal relationship to the Christian tradition,
Deacy maintains that it is religious per se, and, moreover, it is
its very secularity that makes Christmas such a compelling, and
even transcendent, religious holiday.
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