America's Favorite Holidays explores how five of America's culturally important holidays - Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving - came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday's traditions. Was Christmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween? Appealing and insightful, America's Favorite Holidays satisfies our curiosity about the origins of our holidays and the fascinating ways in which religion and culture mix.
| ISBN: | 9780520284722 |
| Publication date: | 27th October 2015 |
| Author: | Bruce David Forbes |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 232 pages |
| Genres: |
Pageants, parades, festivals Social and cultural history History of religion History of the Americas |