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To what extent are Christians today aware of the origins of modern…
To what extent are Christians today aware of the origins of modern Christmas traditions, and once educated, will their core beliefs, values, and traditions change?
Geographic
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PERRY, J. (2010). Conclusion: The nation around the Christmas tree. In Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History (pp. 283–290). University of North Carolina Press. https://doi.org/10.5149/9780807899410_perry.11
“sentimentalism is no product of nature, but a cultivated middle class project, nurtured by rituals and myths through modalities of consumerism, faith, and national politics.”
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Historical
Murphy, R. T. A. (1948). Review of Paganism to Christianity in the Roman Empire, by W. W. Hyde]. The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 10(4), 445–449. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43720069
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Marino, J. B. (2004). Christian vs. Pagan: origins and culture wars. In The Grail Legend in Modern Literature (Vol. 59, pp. 28–81). Boydell & Brewer. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt81xc5.6
"This Higher Criticism began as early as the late seventeenth century, continued into the eighteenth century, and flourished in the nineteenth century with studies of the Bible's textual History..."
Nothaft, C. P. E. (2011). From sukkot to saturnalia: The attack on Christmas in sixteenth-century chronological scholarship. Journal of the History of Ideas, 72(4), 503–522. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41337151
that December 25th does not represent the historical birthday of Jesus and that the nativity’s assignment to this particular day does not go back further than the third or fourth century.
Religious
Tille, A. (1899). Yule and Christmas: Their place in the Germanic year. Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, 3(2), 426–497. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24680610
"On the Nether Rhine the division of the year into 6 tides or periods of sixty days each was known til so late as the 14th century although then it was thought to be antiquated as compared with the new Roman Christian way of determining seasons."
Behrend, C. (2011). The making of a Christian king and ‘Pagan’ persecutions. In Resurrecting Cannibals: The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda (pp. 133–142). Boydell & Brewer. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.cttn33kg.13
"In this power struggle,, resurrecting cannibals and canibals celebrating canibalistic feasts,"
Nothaft, C. P. E. (2011). From sukkot to saturnalia: The attack on Christmas in sixteenth-century chronological scholarship. Journal of the History of Ideas, 72(4), 503–522. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41337151
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