How Christmas Became Christmas

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments?ix

Preface?1

Introduction?3

Part One-Origins and Evolution

1.?Holiday Hype and Historiography?10

2.?In Search of the First Christmas?22

3.?Christmas in a Pagan World?34

4.?Yule's -Post-Pagan Metamorphosis?46

5.?Repression and Resistance?58

Part Two-Curious Customs

6.?Sacred Trees?68

7.?The Man, the Myth, the Legend,

the God-Santa Claus?83

8.?Actual Christmas Magic?98

9.?Children's Saturnalia?113

10.?Ghosts, Goblins and Angels?127

Part Three-Enduring Legacies

11.?Legacy of Miracles?142

12.?Legacy of Misrule?158

13.?The Halloween Connection?171

14.?From Pagan to Secular?182

15.?Reason for the Season?198

16.?War Over Christmas?209

Chapter Notes?219

Bibliography?241

Index?245

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• História da religião
• Culto cristão, ritos e cerimônias
• Culto, ritos e cerimônias
• Estudos cultirais
• Sociologia: costumes e tradições