Christmas as religion : (Record no. 43884)
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| fixed length control field | 02851cam a2200289 i 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | UkLoRLUK |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20200429121552.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 151113t20162016enk b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780198754565 |
| Qualifying information | hardback |
| 038 ## - RECORD CONTENT LICENSOR | |
| Record content licensor | UkLoRLUK |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | UkOxU |
| -- | UK-LoURL |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | pcc |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | BV45 |
| Item number | .D42 2016 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 263/.915 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Deacy, Christopher, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Christmas as religion : |
| Remainder of title | rethinking Santa, the secular, and the sacred / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Christopher Deacy. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Rethinking Santa, the secular, and the sacred. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First edition. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 223 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: the parameters of this book -- 1 What is Christmas -- 2 Revisiting the religious origins and essence of Christmas -- 3 Is Christmas a 'secular' religion? -- 4 Christmas as a site of implicit religion -- 5 Christmas films and the persistence of the supernatural -- 6 Reframing Christmas and the religion of materialism. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | In Christmas as Religion, Christopher Deacy explores the premise that religion plays an elementary role in our understanding of the Christmas festival, but takes issue with much of the existing literature which is inclined to limit the contours and parameters of 'religion' to particular representations and manifestations of institutional forms of Christianity. 'Religion' is often tacitly identified as having an ecclesiastical frame of reference, so that if the Church is not deemed to play a central role in the practice of Christmas for many people today then it can legitimately be side-lined and relegated to the periphery of any discussion relating to what Christmas 'means'. Deacy argues that such approaches fail to take adequate stock of the manifold ways in which people's beliefs and values take shape in modern society. For example, Christmas films or radio programmes may comprise a non-specifically Christian, but nonetheless religiously rich, repository of beliefs, values, sentiments and aspirations. Therefore, this book makes the case for laying to rest the secularization thesis, with its simplistic assumption that religion in Western society is undergoing a period of escalating and irrevocable erosion, and to see instead that the secular may itself be a repository of the religious. Rather than see Christmas as comprising alternative or analogous forms of religious expression, or dependent on any causal relationship to the Christian tradition, Deacy maintains that it is religious per se, and, moreover, it is its very secularity that makes Christmas such a compelling, and even transcendent, religious holiday. -- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Christmas. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Religion and culture. |
| 907 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT G, LDG (RLIN) | |
| a | .b33937436 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | E-Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Materials specified (bound volume or other part) | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | rethinking Santa, the secular, and the sacred | Reformational Study Centre | Reformational Study Centre | General library | 04/29/2020 | 263.915 | 04/29/2020 | 04/29/2020 | E-Book |