Christmas in the crosshairs : two thousand years of denouncing and defending the world's most celebrated holiday / Gerry Bowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowler, G. Q., 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christmas--History.

Christmas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is there a War on Christmas? This book surveys the history of the world's most popular festival and the never-ending battles it has engendered ever since its hotly-contested invention in the Roman Empire.

Contents:

Cover; Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing and Defending the World's Most Celebrated Holiday ; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: The Inventors ; Early Modern Christmas; II: The Revivers; Meanwhile across the Atlantic Ocean; III: The Tyrants ; IV: The Godly and the Godless ; The Militant Godless Return; The Christian Critique; V: The Appropriators ; Black Christmases; Correcting Your Vices; Asserting Their Right; VI: The Discontented ; VII: The Privatizers ; Notes; Chapter I: the inventors ; Chapter II: the revivers ; Chapter III: the tyrants

Chapter IV: the godly and the godless Chapter V: the appropriators ; Chapter VII: the discontented ; Chapter VIII: the privatizers ; A Brief Epilogue; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-049902-8

0-19-049901-X