The public work of Christmas : difference and belonging in multicultural societies /
The public work of Christmas : difference and belonging in multicultural societies /
edited by Pamela E. Klassen and Monique Scheer.
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource.
- Advancing studies in religion ; 7 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
The difference that Christmas makes : thoughts on Christian affordances in multicultural societies / Tense holidays : approaching Christmas through conflict / "And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! noise! noise! noise!" or how the Grinch heard Christmas / "Stille nacht" time and again : Christmas songs and feelings / Situating German Volkskunde's Christmas : reflections on spatial and historical constructions / "The first 'white' Xmas" : settler multiculturalism, Nisga'a hospitality, and ceremonial sovereignty on the Pacific Northwest Coast / Oy Tannenbaum, Oy Tannenbaum! : the role of a Christmas tree in a Jewish museum / "What exactly do you celebrate at Christmas?" : different perceptions of Christmas among German-Turkish families in Berlin / A Christmas crisis : lessons from a Canadian public school's seasonal skirmish / Christmas on Orchard Road in Singapore : celebrating the gift of Jesus Christ between Gucci and Tiffany / A cathedral is not just for Christmas : civic Christianity in the multicultural city / Epilogue : containing the world in the Christmas mood / Pamela E. Klassen and Monique Scheer -- Monique Scheer -- Isaac Weiner -- Juliane Brauer -- Christian Marchetti -- Pamela E. Klassen -- Yaniv Feller -- Sophie Reimers -- Helen Mo -- Katja Rakow -- Simon Coleman, Marion Bowman, and Tiina Sepp -- Hermann Bausinger.
"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 Public Work of Christmas takes a comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on the politics of Christmas in multicultural contexts ranging from a Jewish museum in Berlin to a shopping boulevard in Singapore. A seasonal celebration that is at once inclusive and assimilatory, Christmas offers a clarifying lens for considering the historical and ongoing intersections of multiculturalism, Christianity, and the nationalizing and racializing of religion. The essays gathered here examine how cathedrals, banquets, and carols serve as infrastructures of memory that hold up Christmas as a civic, yet unavoidably Christian holiday. At the same time, the authors show how the public work of Christmas depends on cultural forms that mark, mask, and resist the ongoing power of Christianity in the lives of Christians and non-Christians alike. Legislated into paid holidays and commodified into marketplaces, Christmas has arguably become more cultural than religious, making ever wider both its audience and those who do the work to make it happen every year. The Public Work of Christmas articulates a fresh reading of Christmas--as fantasy, ethos, consumable product, site of memory, and terrain for the revival of exclusionary visions of nation and whiteness--at a time of renewed attention to the fragility of belonging in diverse societies."--
9780773557956
20190061634 can
Christmas--Social aspects.
Christmas--Political aspects.
Christmas--Economic aspects.
Multiculturalism.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Electronic Books.
GT4985 / .P835 2019
Includes bibliographies and index.
The difference that Christmas makes : thoughts on Christian affordances in multicultural societies / Tense holidays : approaching Christmas through conflict / "And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! noise! noise! noise!" or how the Grinch heard Christmas / "Stille nacht" time and again : Christmas songs and feelings / Situating German Volkskunde's Christmas : reflections on spatial and historical constructions / "The first 'white' Xmas" : settler multiculturalism, Nisga'a hospitality, and ceremonial sovereignty on the Pacific Northwest Coast / Oy Tannenbaum, Oy Tannenbaum! : the role of a Christmas tree in a Jewish museum / "What exactly do you celebrate at Christmas?" : different perceptions of Christmas among German-Turkish families in Berlin / A Christmas crisis : lessons from a Canadian public school's seasonal skirmish / Christmas on Orchard Road in Singapore : celebrating the gift of Jesus Christ between Gucci and Tiffany / A cathedral is not just for Christmas : civic Christianity in the multicultural city / Epilogue : containing the world in the Christmas mood / Pamela E. Klassen and Monique Scheer -- Monique Scheer -- Isaac Weiner -- Juliane Brauer -- Christian Marchetti -- Pamela E. Klassen -- Yaniv Feller -- Sophie Reimers -- Helen Mo -- Katja Rakow -- Simon Coleman, Marion Bowman, and Tiina Sepp -- Hermann Bausinger.
"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 Public Work of Christmas takes a comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on the politics of Christmas in multicultural contexts ranging from a Jewish museum in Berlin to a shopping boulevard in Singapore. A seasonal celebration that is at once inclusive and assimilatory, Christmas offers a clarifying lens for considering the historical and ongoing intersections of multiculturalism, Christianity, and the nationalizing and racializing of religion. The essays gathered here examine how cathedrals, banquets, and carols serve as infrastructures of memory that hold up Christmas as a civic, yet unavoidably Christian holiday. At the same time, the authors show how the public work of Christmas depends on cultural forms that mark, mask, and resist the ongoing power of Christianity in the lives of Christians and non-Christians alike. Legislated into paid holidays and commodified into marketplaces, Christmas has arguably become more cultural than religious, making ever wider both its audience and those who do the work to make it happen every year. The Public Work of Christmas articulates a fresh reading of Christmas--as fantasy, ethos, consumable product, site of memory, and terrain for the revival of exclusionary visions of nation and whiteness--at a time of renewed attention to the fragility of belonging in diverse societies."--
9780773557956
20190061634 can
Christmas--Social aspects.
Christmas--Political aspects.
Christmas--Economic aspects.
Multiculturalism.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Electronic Books.
GT4985 / .P835 2019