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Beschreibung

Why is Christmas the way it is? How did we get from the birth of Jesus to everyone pushing their credit card and their belts to their maximum extent?

Starting with the events surrounding Jesus' birth, this book takes us through centuries of commemoration, celebration and over-consumption. Along the way we'll find out why we eat turkey, how an obscure Turkish saint turned into a man flying a sleigh, and why that tree in your house should really contain an apple and a snake.

Combining in-depth historical research, cheerfully irreverent humour and cutting-edge guesswork, Nick Page explores what this festival really means, and how we can get back to something real and true beneath all that wrapping.

Why is Christmas the way it is? How did we get from the birth of Jesus to everyone pushing their credit card and their belts to their maximum extent?

Starting with the events surrounding Jesus' birth, this book takes us through centuries of commemoration, celebration and over-consumption. Along the way we'll find out why we eat turkey, how an obscure Turkish saint turned into a man flying a sleigh, and why that tree in your house should really contain an apple and a snake.

Combining in-depth historical research, cheerfully irreverent humour and cutting-edge guesswork, Nick Page explores what this festival really means, and how we can get back to something real and true beneath all that wrapping.

Über den Autor
Nick Page is the author of over 80 books, including The Bible Book, What Happened to the Ark of the Covenant and Other Bible Mysteries, The Dark Night of the Shed, The Wrong Messiah, A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation and most recently Christmas: Truth, Tradition and Total Baubles. Follow Nick Page on Twitter at: [...] and visit his website at: [...]
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Religion: Christentum
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781529334081
ISBN-10: 152933408X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Page, Nick
Hersteller: John Murray Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 202 x 130 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Nick Page
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2022
Gewicht: 0,326 kg
Artikel-ID: 121247006