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Christmas in the crosshairs : two thousand years of denouncing and defending the world's most celebrated holiday / Gerry Bowler.

by Bowler, G. Q., 1948-

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Christmas -- History.

9780190499006 (hc.)

299 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-290) and index.

The inventors -- The revivers -- The tyrants -- The godly and the godless -- The appropriators -- The discontented -- The privatizers -- A brief epilogue.

A cherished global phenomenon, Christmas is the biggest single event on the planet. For Christians it is the second-most sacred date on the calendar, but it also engages billions of people who are caught up in its commercialism, music, sentiment, travel, and frenetic busyness. Since its controversial invention in the Roman Empire, Christmas has struggled with paganism, popular culture, and fierce Christian opposition; faced abolition in Scotland and New England; and braved neglect and near-death in the 1700s, only to be miraculously reinvented in the 1800s. The twentieth century saw it banned by Bolsheviks and twisted by Nazis. Since then, special interest groups of every stripe have used the holiday's massive popularity to draw attention to their causes. An eye-opening history of Christmas and its opponents from the beginning up to the present day,

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