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Originally written and published for the Christian market, this updated and expanded version includes everything from the first edition plus more! Holidays and Holy Days seeks to offer balanced information on the history of holidays and holiday customs, focusing primarily on American holidays and celebrations. Rather than tell you whether or not you should celebrate, the material gives you the information to make your own choice. Christian parents will find Holidays and Holy Days an excellent resource for various questions. Ministers, teachers, and anyone interested in the how and why of various celebrations will enjoy this book.
- Sales Rank: #214672 in Books
- Published on: 2013-09-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .45" w x 6.00" l, .60 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 198 pages
From the Publisher
From the secular to the sacred, this book answers your questions about our holiday traditions. If you want to know where we got the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus or the manger scenes, you'll find the information here, including all of the interesting tidbits about the major holidays that are normally not available from one source.
About the Author
Susan E. Richardson makes her home in Clinton, MS. She has managed Christian bookstores in Mississippi and Texas, and now writes and offers freelance critique services. When not at the computer, she enjoys gardening and photography. She has a passion for meeting people’s needs through the written word and wrote this book in response to many customer requests for information about American holidays during her days in Christian retail.
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A CHRISTIAN AUTHOR EXPLAINS HOW VARIOUS HOLIDAY CUSTOMS BEGAN
By Steven H Propp
The author explains in the introduction to the revised (2013) edition of this book, “The book you’re holding is one I wished for many times over the years I worked in a Christian bookstore. Customers came in asking about holiday customs or how a holiday got started, and I had nothing to answer their questions. I wrote this book to answer those questions as well as I could. During my research, I discovered that many questions don’t have a specific answer. Christians have been arguing about what holidays---if any---we should celebrate and how to celebrate them since Christianity began… I don’t plan to take any sides … in any argument. As these different pre-Christian celebrations come into the text, along with church decrees for or against various traditions, I’ll present them without drawing any conclusions. What the origins of our customs mean to Christian holiday celebrations is---I believe---for you as an individual to decide with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.” (Pg. i)
She notes about Lent, “Our word Lent comes from the Anglo-Saxon ‘lencten,’ meaning spring. Christians in Egypt established the traditional forty days of Lent before A.D. 330. Today people think of the forty days of Lent as remembering Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness before He began his ministry. Forty shows up several placed in Scripture. Moses spent forty days in the wilderness, the Jews wandered forty years before God allowed them to enter the Promised Land, and Jonah gave Nineveh forty days to repent. In the early church, new converts fasted for forty hours to prepare for baptism on Easter Eve.” (Pg. 38)
She points out, “Easter symbols intertwine pagan symbolism and ritual with church customs. We aren’t certain where we get the word ‘easter.’ The Venerable Bede, an eighth century monk and scholar, suggested the word may have come from the Anglo-Saxon “Eostre’ of ‘Eastre’---a Teutonic goddess… Recent scholars have not been able to find any reference to the goddess Bede mentioned and consider the theory discredited.” (Pg. 50)
She observes about Rev. Alexander Hislop’s book ‘The Two Babylons,’ “Rev. Hislop takes similarities between any god or goddess as proof that they are all the same as Nimrod or Semiramis (Nimrod’s wife)… Once every religious system outside of Christianity becomes worship of Nimrod or Semiramis, any symbols belonging to any god or goddess belong to all… the first path ends with many people convinced that the Catholic Church and Babylonian religion are the same… the second path… attempts to trace the connections Hislop puts forth in historical documents… further research on Ishtar/Inana/Astarte does not substantiate the connection between Ishtar and Easter symbols… While scholars accept overlap between various deities, they do not consider them to be interchangeable… History does not support an unbroken line from Semiramis through Ishtar and on into Catholicism.” (Pg. 52-53)
Of Halloween, she says, “Halloween has become one of the most troublesome holidays for Christians to celebrate. Once considered a children’s holiday, a modern rise in paganism has made some Christians wary of celebrating it in any way. We get the name from ‘All Hallow’s Eve’ or the evening before All Saint’s Day. Despite this, most Halloween customs have a pagan origin. Most people consider Halloween Druidic in origin, with additional customs blended into the observance from Roman tradition.” (Pg. 103)
She observes, “When the Protestant Reformation began, St. Nicholas was among the first traditions the new church dropped. Martin Luther knew it would be hard to give up old customs like St. Nicholas, so he made a change in the custom. Instead of a saint, the gift giver became the ‘Christkindl’ or Christ Child. As an added touch, Jesus came on His own birthday, instead of St. Nicholas’ day. In America, the German ‘Chrsitkindl’ became Kris Kringle.” (Pg. 125)
She notes, “Considering the fact Christians still debate various Christmas customs, it is interesting that during the first half of the nineteenth century in America, Sunday Schools helped promote the acceptance of folk customs such as the Christmas tree and Santa Claus. While they didn’t deliberately do so, that was the end result of a curious division of thought about Christmas as a holy day and as a holiday.” (Pg. 128) She adds, “by the end of the nineteenth century, most churches accepted Christmas… many churches accepted the Sunday School Christmas tree and Santa Claus without comment. Other churches began rejecting them for fear they encouraged greed and crowded Christ out of Christmas.” (Pg. 131)
She suggests, “we know the inn at Bethlehem had no room, so Mary and Joseph may well have taken shelter in the inn’s stable. At the time when Christ was born, a stable was not a separate wooden building, but a cave. The area near Bethlehem is home to many caves used to house livestock… In many of the poorer homes, the stable was a lower portion of the house itself… the traditional wooden stable and manger probably bear no resemblance to Jesus’ actual birthplace. More likely, it was either a cave or the stable end of a family’s mud brick home.” (Pg. 135-136)
As promised, this book is an excellent, objective, highly informative summary of information about these many customs. (Although one occasionally wishes the author had documented more of her sources in footnotes.) It will be of great interest and value to those (particularly Christians) looking for a well-written, concise yet thorough summary of holiday customs.
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A well-written resource for your library!
By Just another guy
The observance of various special days is something that everyone everywhere enjoys to do. We look forward to them, plan for them, and celebrate them. As a pastor, I have found this well-researched book to be very helpful in conducting research for my sermons. The author has arranged the various holidays and holy days by month of the year, making the book very easy to use. I especially enjoyed the chapter on Christmas--so much information! Did you know that from 1659 until 1681, it was against the law in Massachusetts to observe Christmas? There is a lot of interesting information about the star, the legends surrounding the story of the wise men, Chrismons, candy canes, and Christmas cards.
Not interested in Christmas? Discover more about Groundhog Day. Explore the rich history behind Purim, St. Patrick's Day, April Fools' Day, and many others.
Though I no longer have children at home, this would have been a wonderful resource to share with my children as they were growing up--to explore the various histories and traditions of each day as they rolled around. I highly recommend this book!
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Excellent for school and home
By kcolleen
I purchased the original book (published in 2001) and we have about worn it out. This is an excellent book for teachers to talk with their students as well as for families to learn more about holiday traditions. I consider this book a must have in a classroom library. Thank you, Susan Richardson, for updating the original version. I just ordered three more for our school!
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