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The Battle for Christmas
Title: The Battle for Christmas
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 567 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Battle for Christmas
In The Battle for Christmas, Stephen Nissenbaum traces how Christmas came to be celebrated and how Christmas has evolved and been made popular in America.
The Puritans in fact outlawed Christmas, which was celebrated much differently in the nineteenth century than it is today. New England, as well as many states, did not grant legal recognition to Christmas until the middle of the nineteenth century arguing that Christ’s birth was not on December 25th. …showed first 75 words of 567 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 567 total…Christmas has historically been as much a secular holiday as a religious one. This packet taught me about the origin of Christmas, why we carol, and the root of “imaginary gift givers.” Although Christmas didn’t originate as a Christian holiday, and is at times not observed as a Christian holiday today (Christmas spelled out X-MAS), Christmas still remains to be a symbol, to Christians, of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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