"Christmas: A Revolutionary Holiday?" Topic
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Tango01  | 07 Nov 2025 12:49 p.m. PST |
"Christmas as revolutionary holiday? The idea seems paradoxical if not outlandish. After all, Christmas seems to be an age-old traditional holiday that celebrates the central pillars of social stability: religious faith, family togetherness, material prosperity, and "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Humanity." Yet revolutionary eras invariably produce new celebrations and festivals—consider the many traditions invented by the French revolutionaries—and Christmas bears traces of revolution in its history. The "first" Christmas, inaugurated in 366 CE by Roman Emperor Constantine in an effort to unify a fractious empire and gain adherents to the new state religion of Christianity marked a radical turn away from paganism. New holiday rituals associated with the birth of Jesus were arguably a revolutionary appropriation of already existing, popular observances associated with the winter solstice and the Roman Saturnalia…"
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