The Battle for Christmas

Stephen Nissenbaum obtained a bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1961 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1963. He taught at the University of Wisconsin in 1968. He taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1968 and is now a professor of history. He has received a scholarship from the National Humanities Foundation, the American Academic Society Council, the American Ancient Literature Society, the Massachusetts Historical Association, and the Harvard University's Charles Warren Center. In addition, he was a history professor of James P. Harrison of William and Mary University from 1989 to 1990. He was active in the public and humanities sciences, served as a member and chairman of the Massachusetts Humanities Foundation, and served as a historical consultant for several film productions. Christmas battle is the finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in the 1997 history.

Stephen Nissenbaum's Christmas Battle In the book "Battle of Christmas", Steven Nissenbaum analyzed in detail the Christmas celebration and the way we became a festival we know today. The book's title "Battle of Christmas" well reflects this transformation process. At every stage of Christmas change there is a battle to give up ideas and the meaning of holidays. Stephen Nissenbaum explains the reasons for the Christmas war and the influence of social change on the change of Christmas tradition. Everyone does not agree that Jesus was born in the winter, but in the 4th century AD the church set Christmas Day on September 25. The reason is that the church tried to Christianize the tradition of the old savage festival at the end of agriculture.

In his book 'Battle of Christmas', Stephen Nissenbaum explains the changes of society for centuries that contradicts the concept of Christmas celebration. Although it is impossible to prohibit Christmas holidays without serious consequences, Christmas is changing, not thrown away. When the reader began to understand the history of the holiday, he can understand that the real battle lasted for centuries and offered a contemporary form of Christmas. Between the old and new, the battle between the past and the future has many goals in this fight. It is the establishment of a Christian church, social stability, the introduction of ethics and values, and commercial success.

To understand why gifts for children (and gifts for adults gradually become part of this new Christmas tradition) it is necessary to extend the story of Nissenbaum. Christmas battle focused on the tension between New York elite and its working class but at the same time a middle class began to emerge in New York and other northern cities and the shape of Christmas Changing also fulfilled their purpose. Like their wealthy fellows, middle-class families are concerned about the effects of rapid population growth and expansion of market capitalists to children - expansion of goods and services offered by adults reduces the number of young people So especially. Family responsibility such as public education has not appeared yet