Christmas Unwrapped
It is as predictable as the sunrise or sunset. Early on Friday morning, the day after Thanksgiving, shoppers flock to the stores unleashing a month of consumerism unparalleled during any other time of year. Yet it was not always thus. How did Christmas become a consumer event, and what does that say about America today? \ Christmas Unwrapped, edited by Richard Horsley and James Tracy, offers a fascinating critique of the American Christmas from the perspectives of cultural studies, theology,...
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Introduction1Pt. 1The Formative History of American Christmas1The Armistice over Christmas: Consuming in the Twentieth Century92Christmas in the Sixties19Pt. 2The Culture of American Christmas3Christmas on Celluloid: Hollywood Helps Construct the American Christmas394Still Dreaming: War, Memory, and Nostalgia in the American Christmas555The Holy Days and the Wholly Dazed: Christmas and the "Spirit of Giving"84Pt. 3Saviors and Messiahs, Biblical and Other6The Gospel of the Savior's Birth1137Messiah, Magi, and Model Imperial King139Pt. 4Theoretical and Theological Reflections8Christmas: The Religion of Consumer Capitalism1659Santa Claus as an Icon of Grace18810What Child Is This? Lynch v. Donnelly and the Celebration of Christmas in the United States199Prologue219Contributors225Index226
