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The public work of Christmas : difference and belonging in multicultural societies /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Advancing studies in religion ;
7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The difference that Christmas makes : thoughts on Christian affordances in multicultural societies / Pamela E. Klassen and Monique Scheer
- Tense holidays : approaching Christmas through conflict / Monique Scheer
- "And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! noise! noise! noise!" or how the Grinch heard Christmas / Isaac Weiner
- "Stille nacht" time and again : Christmas songs and feelings / Juliane Brauer
- Situating German Volkskunde's Christmas : reflections on spatial and historical constructions / Christian Marchetti
- "The first 'white' Xmas" : settler multiculturalism, Nisga'a hospitality, and ceremonial sovereignty on the Pacific Northwest Coast / Pamela E. Klassen
- Oy Tannenbaum, Oy Tannenbaum! : the role of a Christmas tree in a Jewish museum / Yaniv Feller
- "What exactly do you celebrate at Christmas?" : different perceptions of Christmas among German-Turkish families in Berlin / Sophie Reimers
- A Christmas crisis : lessons from a Canadian public school's seasonal skirmish / Helen Mo
- Christmas on Orchard Road in Singapore : celebrating the gift of Jesus Christ between Gucci and Tiffany / Katja Rakow
- A cathedral is not just for Christmas : civic Christianity in the multicultural city / Simon Coleman, Marion Bowman, and Tiina Sepp
- Epilogue : containing the world in the Christmas mood / Hermann Bausinger.