02688nam a2200337Ia 4500 20260803094042.0 251212s2010 xx 000 0 und d Christmas: Philosophy for Everyone : better than a lump of coal / Scott C. Lowe. Lowe, Scott C. Nissenbaum, Stephen Malden,MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xii, 239 p.: ill. 23 cm. Includes bibliographic references 978-1-4443-3090-8 Christmas 263.915 C46l 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 HED2290 English CollLib 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. 0 Text Unmediated Volume lcc BK rizal 2015-04-07 23:18:17 rizal 2015-04-07 23:18:17 3106 3095 3095 0 0 ddc 0 0 HED HED HED 2025-12-21 263.915 C46l HED2290 2026-06-02 00:00:00 2025-12-21 BK