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245 1 0 _aThe public work of Christmas :
_bdifference and belonging in multicultural societies /
_cedited by Pamela E. Klassen and Monique Scheer.
260 _aMontreal ;
_aKingston ;
_aLondon ;
_aChicago :
_bMcGill-Queen's University Press,
_c(c)2019.
300 _a1 online resource.
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490 1 _aAdvancing studies in religion ;
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505 0 0 _aThe difference that Christmas makes : thoughts on Christian affordances in multicultural societies /
_rPamela E. Klassen and Monique Scheer --
_tTense holidays : approaching Christmas through conflict /
_rMonique Scheer --
_t"And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! noise! noise! noise!" or how the Grinch heard Christmas /
_rIsaac Weiner --
_t"Stille nacht" time and again : Christmas songs and feelings /
_rJuliane Brauer --
_tSituating German Volkskunde's Christmas : reflections on spatial and historical constructions /
_rChristian Marchetti --
_t"The first 'white' Xmas" : settler multiculturalism, Nisga'a hospitality, and ceremonial sovereignty on the Pacific Northwest Coast /
_rPamela E. Klassen --
_tOy Tannenbaum, Oy Tannenbaum! : the role of a Christmas tree in a Jewish museum /
_rYaniv Feller --
_t"What exactly do you celebrate at Christmas?" : different perceptions of Christmas among German-Turkish families in Berlin /
_rSophie Reimers --
_tA Christmas crisis : lessons from a Canadian public school's seasonal skirmish /
_rHelen Mo --
_tChristmas on Orchard Road in Singapore : celebrating the gift of Jesus Christ between Gucci and Tiffany /
_rKatja Rakow --
_tA cathedral is not just for Christmas : civic Christianity in the multicultural city /
_rSimon Coleman, Marion Bowman, and Tiina Sepp --
_tEpilogue : containing the world in the Christmas mood /
_rHermann Bausinger.
520 0 _a"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."--
_cProvided by publisher.
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650 0 _aChristmas
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aChristmas
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aChristmas
_xEconomic aspects.
650 0 _aMulticulturalism.
650 0 _aBelonging (Social psychology)
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
700 1 _aKlassen, Pamela E.
_d1967-
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700 1 _aScheer, Monique,
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700 1 _q(Pamela Edith),
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2127180&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell