Bruce David Forbes 
America’s Favorite Holidays [EPUB ebook] 
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America’s Favorite Holidays explores how five of America’s culturally important holidays—Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving—came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday’s traditions. Was Christmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween? Appealing and insightful,
America’s Favorite Holidays satisfies our curiosity about the origins of our holidays and the fascinating ways in which religion and culture mix.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Christmas
2. Valentine’s Day
3. Easter
4. Halloween
5. Thanksgiving
Afterword
Notes
Index

Über den Autor

Bruce David Forbes is Professor of Religious Studies at Morningside College, author of Christmas: A Candid History, and coeditor of Religion and Popular Culture in America.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 232 ● ISBN 9780520960442 ● Dateigröße 10.1 MB ● Verlag University of California Press ● Erscheinungsjahr 2015 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 6513108 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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