Christmas: Philosophy for Everyone : better than a lump of coal /
Scott C. Lowe.
- Malden,MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- xii, 239 p.: ill. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographic references
Foreword : joining the manger to the sleigh? / Stephen Nissenbaum -- Introduction / Scott C. Lowe -- Jesus, Mary, and Hume : on the possibility of the virgin birth / Zachary Jurgensen and Jason Southworth -- The virgin birth : authentic Christmas magic / Victor Lyons -- Putting the "yule" back in "yuletide" / Todd Preston -- Armed for the war on Christmas / Scott F. Aiken -- Christmas mythologies : sacred and secular / Guy Bennett-Hunter -- The significance of Christmas for liberal multiculturalism / Mark Mercer -- Crummy commercials and BB guns : son-of-a-bitch consumerism in a Christmas classic / Erin Haire and Dustin Nelson -- The mind of Santa Claus and the metaphors he lives by / William E. Deal and S. Waller -- Making a list, checking it twice : the Santa Claus surveillance system / Richard Hancuff and Noreen O`Connor -- You`d better watch out... / Will Williams -- Santa`s sweatshop : elf exploitation for Christmas / Matthew Brophy -- Against the Santa Claus lie : the truth we should tell our children / David Kyle Johnson -- Lying to children about Santa : why it`s just not wrong / Era Gavrielides -- Putting Claus back into Christmas / Steven D. Hales -- Scrooge learns it all in one night : happiness and the virtues of Christmas / Dane Scott -- Holly jolly atheists : a naturalistic justification for Christmas / Ruth Tallman -- Heaven, Hecate, and Hallmark : Christmas in hindsight / Marion G. Mason -- Festivus and the need for seasonal absurdity / Caleb Holt -- Common Claus : Santa as cross-cultural connection / Cindy Scheopner
From Santa, elves and Ebenezer Scrooge, to the culture wars and virgin birth, Christmas - Philosophy for Everyone explores a host of philosophical issues raised by the practices and beliefs surrounding Christmas.