The Battle for Christmas

Anyone who feels sad about excessive Christmas will consider Massachusetts colony Puritans. They just prohibit this holiday. Because when a poor prostitute forced rich food and drink, Christmas was once a scene of drunkards and riots. More

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 "The Battle of Christmas", Stephen Nissenbaum explains the centuries of social change 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.