Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing and Defending the World's Most Celebrated Holiday

by Gerry Bowler

Book Overview

An Anglican priest hands out brass knuckles to his congregation, preparing to battle anti-Christmas fanatics. Fascists insist that the Winter Solstice is the real Christmas, while Communists stage atheist musicals outside of churches on Christmas Eve. Activists vandalize shops that start touting the holiday in October and anti-consumerists sing parody carols in shopping malls. Is there a war on Christmas? As Gerry Bowler demonstrates in Christmas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190499001
• ISBN13: 9780190499006
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"