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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : OSU:32435023409816
Author : Herbert Henry Wernecke
Publisher : Omnigraphics
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 078080306X
Presents essays that describe the celebration of Christmas as reflected in customs and stories from over forty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.
Author : Rick Warren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781471108440
In his powerful yet compassionate voice, Pastor Rick Warren tells the most wonderful story of all - the story of God come to earth in the form of a human infant. Warren goes back to that day long ago when the baby Jesus was born in the manger. In this clarion call to 'remember the reason for the season', readers are taken back in time to the simple origins of a baby who changed history forever. Warren gives readers an intimate look into his family heritage as he shares the fifty-year-old Warren Christmas tradition of having a birthday party for Jesus. Through stirring imagery and compelling insights, this book celebrates the significance and promise of this cherished holiday.
Author : John Weldon
Publisher : ATRI Publishing
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781937136963
Because the virgin birth really happened the world was forever altered. Although this "once in an eternity" birth is usually only considered at Christmas – and then often peripherally – this unique doctrine upon which the Bible and Christianity stand or fall nevertheless impacts every single person's life for eternal good or its opposite. How could something so ancient and unseen be the most important teaching for the human race? And how could a global cultural celebration prove the truth of a miracle 2000 years ago? This eBook will explore one of the most fascinating events in human history.
Author : Heidi Swain
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471195891
WINNER OF THE RNA POPULAR ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARD 2023. 'Grab a hot chocolate and lose yourself in this heart-warming story of romance, community and secrets. The perfect story to read by the fire!' PHILLIPPA ASHLEY ‘Brimming with warmth and Christmas cheer’ SARAH MORGAN When Paige turns up unannounced at Wynthorpe Hall, she discovers the place she knew when she was growing up has changed beyond all recognition. She’s only planning to stay for a short time, but is quickly pulled into local life. One night while driving home after delivering library books and shopping to residents she stumbles across an isolated cottage and meets Albert, its elderly and rather grumpy owner. She quickly realises there’s more to Albert than meets the eye and the same can be said for the other man she can’t seem to help running into, handsome but brooding Brodie. All three of them have a secret and a desire to hide away from the world, but with Christmas on the horizon, is that really the best way to celebrate the season? ‘With just as much sparkle as the tinsel on the tree. Heidi’s writing sweeps us into a stunning festive winter wonderland…’ My Weekly Praise for Underneath the Christmas Tree ‘Heidi Swain is the queen of feel-good fiction, and this Yuletide yarn certainly ticks all our boxes’ New! Magazine ‘A seasonal romance as warm and welcome as a mug of mulled wine’ Woman & Home ‘You’ll want to curl up with a hot choc to read this warm hug of a festive book’ Fabulous Magazine 'The Magical One' Heat, festive fiction picks 'This heartwarming story by Heidi Swain' Hello
Author : Penne L. Restad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199923588
The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. But the history of Christmas cannot be summed up so easily as the commercialization of a sacred day. As Penne Restad reveals in this marvelous new book, it has always been an ambiguous meld of sacred thoughts and worldly actions-- as well as a fascinating reflection of our changing society. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday. In colonial times, it was celebrated either as an utterly solemn or a wildly social event--if it was celebrated at all. Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. City dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations. Puritan New Englanders denounced the whole affair. Restad shows that as times changed, Christmas changed--and grew in popularity. In the early 1800s, New York served as an epicenter of the newly emerging holiday, drawing on its roots as a Dutch colony (St. Nicholas was particularly popular in the Netherlands, even after the Reformation), and aided by such men as Washington Irving. In 1822, another New Yorker named Clement Clarke Moore penned a poem now known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," virtually inventing the modern Santa Claus. Well-to-do townspeople displayed a German novelty, the decorated fir tree, in their parlors; an enterprising printer discovered the money to be made from Christmas cards; and a hodgepodge of year-end celebrations began to coalesce around December 25 and the figure of Santa. The homecoming significance of the holiday increased with the Civil War, and by the end of the nineteenth century a full- fledged national holiday had materialized, forged out of borrowed and invented custom alike, and driven by a passion for gift-giving. In the twentieth century, Christmas seeped into every niche of our conscious and unconscious lives to become a festival of epic proportions. Indeed, Restad carries the story through to our own time, unwrapping the messages hidden inside countless movies, books, and television shows, revealing the inescapable presence--and ambiguous meaning--of Christmas in contemporary culture. Filled with colorful detail and shining insight, Christmas in America reveals not only much about the emergence of the holiday, but also what our celebrations tell us about ourselves. From drunken revelry along colonial curbstones to family rituals around the tree, from Thomas Nast drawing the semiofficial portrait of St. Nick to the making of the film Home Alone, Restad's sparkling account offers much to amuse and ponder.
Author : Susan Titus Osborne,Christine Harder Tangvald
Publisher : Bean Sprouts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 0784703566
Celebrate the birth of Christ with children from around the world! Learn about the customs and festivals that honor Christ's birth in the lands where they live.
Author : Joanne Mattern
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766027767
An introduction to Christmas discusses the origins and development of the holiday and its traditions, its religious and cultural significance, its commercialization, and related topics.
Author : Bruce David Forbes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520933729
Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas—from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. Packed with intriguing stories, based on research into myriad sources, full of insights, the book explores the historical origins of traditions including Santa, the reindeer, gift giving, the Christmas tree, Christmas songs and movies, and more. The book also offers some provocative ideas for reclaiming the joy and meaning of this beloved, yet often frustrating, season amid the pressures of our fast-paced consumer culture. DID YOU KNOW For three centuries Christians did not celebrate Christmas? Puritans in England and New England made Christmas observances illegal? St. Nicholas is an elf in the famous poem "The Night Before Christmas"? President Franklin Roosevelt changed the dateof Thanksgiving in order to lengthen the Christmas shopping season? Coca-Cola helped fashion Santa Claus's look in an advertising campaign?
Author : Pamela Kennedy
Publisher : Ideals Publications
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0824985877
Tracing the most festive Christian holiday, A Christmas Celebration is beautifully illustrated with fine art reproductions, line engravings, and vintage photography.Children are provided with answers to their questions about the yuletide season, such as 'What are the twelve days of Christmas?'Each facet of Christmas is sensitively explained to allow youngsters to understand its origin and meaning, also exploring many international celebrations.
Author : Ann Voskamp
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781414397542
Offers guidance for taking part in the Advent tradition of the Jesse Tree, with scriptural passages, devotions, and activities intended to apply their themes.
Author : Susan K. Roll
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 9039005311
Christmas exerts an enormous attraction today even apart from its Christian character as a celebration of the incarnation of God in the Person of Jesus. Even marginal or indifferent Christians crowd the churches on Christmas Eve and in highly commercialized and technologized Western societies the Christmas season is celebrated with enthousiasm. Yet Christmas entered the calendar of feasts relatively late, by 336 C.E., and the reason for its introduction and quick spread remain speculative and based on fragmentary evidence. Towards the Origins of Christmas addresses both the contemporary Western celebration of Christmas, and its deep historical roots in the church of the fourth century. The book presents a thorough investigation of the patristic texts and evidence cited by liturgical scholars in the late 19th and 20th centuries to support two main theories: the Calculation theory and the History of Religions theory. This historical research is set in the framework of the contemporary experience of Christmas; the dynamics of time and the liturgical year; the inculturation of liturgy; and underlying elements of dualism and patriarchal power paradigms which linger beneath the often commercial and sentimental character of Christmas today. Suzan K. Roll was born in Clarence Center, New York (USA) in 1952. She holds degrees in classical languages and pastoral theology, and in 1993 received a Ph. D. from the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Louvain (Leuven), Belgium, summa cum laude with the gratulations of the jury. She has thaught and published in the field of liturgy, sacraments, pastoral theology, and presently teaches at Christ the King Seminary, Buffalo, New York (USA).
Author : Tara Moore
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780233871
Black Friday. The War on Christmas. Miracle on 34th Street and Elf. From shopping malls and Fox News to movie theaters, Christmas no longer solely celebrates to the birth of Christ. Considering the holiday in its global context, Christmas journeys from its historical origins to its modern incarnation as a global commercial event, stopping along the way to look at the controversies and traditions of the celebratory day. Delving into the long story of this unifying but also divisive holiday, Tara Moore describes the evolution of Christmas and the deep traditions that bind a culture to its version of it. She probes the debates that have long accompanied the season—from questions of the actual date of Christ’s birth to frictions between the sacred and the secular—and discusses the characters associated with the holiday’s celebration, including Saint Nicholas, the Magi, Scrooge, and Krampus. She also explores how customs such as Christmas trees, feasting, and gift giving first emerged and became central facets of the holiday, while also examining how Christmas has been portrayed in culture—from the literary works of Charles Dickens to the yearly bout of holiday films, television specials, traditional carols, and modern tracks. Ultimately, Moore reveals, Christmas’s longevity has depended on its ability to evolve. Packed with illustrations, Christmas is a fascinating look at the holiday we only think we know.
Author : Leo Collins
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1475923554
"What we call Christmas is one of the oldest and most enduring of the human celebrations." So begins the Preface of this perennially popular volume which includes hundreds of seasonal selections from Unitarian Universalists over the years, plus a bibliography of resources beyond denominational inspiration. Celebrating Christmas contains history, customs, commentaries, opening words, responsive readings, poetry, prayers, meditations, readings, various service elements, special services, family and fun items, and a dozen woodcuts suitable for worship service covers. In addition there are thirteen new carols for the season. Celebrating Christmas was edited by Carl Seaburg. He and Mark Harris later compiled Celebrating Easter and Spring: An Anthology of Unitarian Universalist Readings.
Author : Dr. Seuss
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781984848130
This year, forget cards--send this perfect little Christmas gift book, featuring full-color art from How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and other classic works by Dr. Seuss, instead! Perfect for Dr. Seuss fans of all ages! This small hardcover gift book--illustrated with full-color art from How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and other classic works by Dr. Seuss--is filled with simple, unrhymed observations about the holiday season. From "travel" and "tree-trimming" to "feasting" and "singing," it's the perfect little gift or stocking stuffer for children, parents, grandparents, neighbors, teachers, caregivers, coworkers--anyone and everyone you want to wish a Merry Christmas!