Celebrating The 12 Days of Christmas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781532655340)

The song ""The 12 Days of Christmas"" is a mainstay of the holiday season, but the practice of celebrating Christmas as a twelve-day festival fell out of fashion long ago in most cultures. In Celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas, author Chris Marchand explores the history behind the season and individual feast days from December 25 to January 6, and then offers suggestions for how you can celebrate it with your family, church, or community. Along with this, he provides answers to many of the nagging questions surrounding the holiday, such as the history behind the twelve-days song, why December 25 was chosen as the date, and what to do about its supposedly pagan origins. The challenge before us is to first help people see Christmas as a holiday that begins, rather than ends, on December 25, and then to together figure out how to reinvent Christmas in the present by learning how it was celebrated in the past.

Author: Chris Marchand
ISBN-10: 1532655347
ISBN-13: 9781532655340
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2019
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d