The Battle for Christmas
In The Battle for Christmas, Stephen Nissenbaum traces how Christmas came to be celebrated and how Christmas has evolved and been made popular in America.The Puritans in fact outlawed Christmas, which was celebrated much differently in the nineteenth century than it is today. New England, as well as many states, did not grant legal recognition to Christmas until the middle of the nineteenth century arguing that Christ’s birth was not on December 25th. Christmas was set at December 25 in the fourth century, not for any biblical link with Christ's birth, but because the church hoped to annex and Christianize the existing midwinter pagan feast. This season was based on the seasonal agricultural plenty, with the year's food supply newly in store, and nothing to do in the fields. In pre-Christian and even post-Christian ag
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Approximate Word count = 557
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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