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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Klassen, Pamela E. (Pamela Edith), 1967- (Editor), Scheer, Monique (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
Series:Advancing studies in religion ; 7.
Subjects:
Christmas > Social aspects.
Christmas > Political aspects.
Christmas > Economic aspects.
Multiculturalism.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Noël > Aspect social.
Noël > Aspect économique.
Noël > Aspect politique.
Multiculturalisme.
Appartenance (Psychologie sociale)
multiculturalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Holidays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Christmas > Social aspects
Multiculturalism
Christmas
Economic aspects
Political aspects
Social aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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