The Oxford Handbook Of Christmas

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0198831463
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Christmas written by Timothy Larsen and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2020 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The origins of Christmas lie in an Egyptian festival on 6 January, which spread to much of the Christian world as a celebration of the birth and/or baptism of Christ and known as the Epiphany or Theophany. The church at Rome did not adopt this festival but later instituted a celebration of the nativity of Christ on 25 December, which gradually supplanted its observance on 6 January in other churches, leaving this latter occasion as a commemoration of Christ's baptism alone, or of the visit of the Magi in those churches like Rome that had not observed that date previously. This essay traces that evolution and examines the merits of the two competing scholarly theories that have sought to explain the original choice of these particular dates"--

Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192567128
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Christmas written by Timothy Larsen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of all aspects of Christmas across the globe, from the specifically religious to the purely cultural. The contributions are drawn from a distinguished group of international experts from across numerous disciplines, including literary scholars, theologians, historians, biblical scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, art historians, and legal experts. The volume provides authoritative treatments of a range of topics, from the origins of Christmas to the present; decorating trees to eating plum pudding; from the Bible to contemporary worship; from carols to cinema; from the Nativity Story to Santa Claus; from Bethlehem to Japan; from Catholics to Baptists; from secularism to consumerism. Christmas is the biggest celebration on the planet. Every year, a significant percentage of the world's population is draw to this holiday—from Cape Cod to Cape Town, from South America to South Korea, and on and on across the globe. The Christmas season takes up a significant part of the entire year. For many countries, the holiday is a major force in their national economy. Moreover, Christmas is not just a modern holiday, but has been an important feast for most Christians since the fourth century and a dominant event in many cultures and countries for over a millennium. The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides an invaluable reference point for anyone interested in this global phenomenon.

Author : Dennis Pepper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Oxford book of Christmas stories written by Dennis Pepper and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert L. Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191061123
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens written by Robert L. Patten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.

Author : Michael Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192760807
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems written by Michael Harrison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully designed book contains well over 100 Christmas poems--old and new, traditional and modern--and features four sections, starting in winter, moving through Advent, and arriving at the Nativity and the heart of the Christmas season. Illustrations, many in color.

Author : Michael Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems written by Michael Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 100 poems, old and new, to celebrate the Christmas season.

Author : Derek H. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190208783
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States written by Derek H. Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of church and state in the United States is incredibly complex. Scholars working in this area have backgrounds in law, religious studies, history, theology, and politics, among other fields. Historically, they have focused on particular angles or dimensions of the church-state relationship, because the field is so vast. The results have mostly been monographs that focus only on narrow cross-sections of the field, and the few works that do aim to give larger perspectives are reference works of factual compendia, which offer little or no analysis. The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States fills this gap, presenting an extensive, multidimensional overview of the field. Twenty-one essays offer a scholarly look at the intricacies and past and current debates that frame the American system of church and state, within five main areas: history, law, theology/philosophy, politics, and sociology. These essays provide factual accounts, but also address issues, problems, debates, controversies, and, where appropriate, suggest resolutions. They also offer analysis of the range of interpretations of the subject offered by various American scholars. This Handbook is an invaluable resource for the study of church-state relations in the United States.

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ISBN 13 : 9780192781222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Merry Christmas Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192763426
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Poems written by Michael Harrison and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a stunningly packaged anthology of poems for the whole Christmas season. The collection is reflective, celebratory and humorous, with a particular focus on well-known modern poets, such as John Betjeman, Dylan Thomas, Wendy Cope and Benjamin Zephaniah, among many others.

Author : Derek Davis
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195326245
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States written by Derek Davis and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 21 essays present a scholarly look at the intricacies and past and current debates that frame the American system of church and state, within 5 main areas: history, politics, sociology theology/philosophy and law.