Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Christmas, Christianity, Controversy & Commercialization | S4EBonus Christmas
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Christmas, Christianity, Controversy & Commercialization | S4EBonus Christmas
Why Dec. 25? Why so much Christmas conflict & controversy in Christianity's history? Why is Christmas so important to Christianity? And to America?
In this episode, I ask my guest, Dr. Carey Roberts, the following questions:
►Why is Christmas such a grand celebration? What does this tell us about Christianity?
►Did it take a while for Christmas to take a central role in Christianity
►What's the difference between recognition and celebration of Christmas
►Did Christmas piggyback on existing Roman pagan traditions?
►How did Christmas enter America's culture? If not the Puritans, then which immigrant group introduced Christmas to America?
►Were there any regional differences in the celebration of Christmas?
►When did U.S. businesses begin to capitalize on Christmas?
►Would President Grant have witnessed a similar Christmas celebration in Boston and Savannah?
►Would George Washington recognize our Christmas? How about Andrew Jackson? Abraham Lincoln? Teddy Roosevelt?
►What happened to Christmas after WWII?
►Is it a bad thing that non-Christians and/or non-practicing Christians celebrate Christmas?
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Roberts is a Professor of History and Online Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Liberty University. His research interests include early American intellectual and economic history. He has lectured and published widely in the fields of the American Founding, monetary and banking history, American intellectual life, and Southern literature. He has been a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church of America and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Here is his academic homepage.
Also, watch my interview with Dr. David Silverman about the real history of Thanksgiving.
I hope you enjoy these interviews about the history behind our news.
Adel Aali, host & producer
History Behind News podcast & on YouTube
Scholars Unravel Middle East:
An in-depth history and analysis of the Middle East available on Spotify, Apple, Castbox, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music or Radio Public.
SUPPORT:
Click here and join our other supporters in the news peeler community. Thank you.
promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
piece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
View all episodes
By Adel Aali, History Behind News
5
7777 ratings
Why Dec. 25? Why so much Christmas conflict & controversy in Christianity's history? Why is Christmas so important to Christianity? And to America?
In this episode, I ask my guest, Dr. Carey Roberts, the following questions:
►Why is Christmas such a grand celebration? What does this tell us about Christianity?
►Did it take a while for Christmas to take a central role in Christianity
►What's the difference between recognition and celebration of Christmas
►Did Christmas piggyback on existing Roman pagan traditions?
►How did Christmas enter America's culture? If not the Puritans, then which immigrant group introduced Christmas to America?
►Were there any regional differences in the celebration of Christmas?
►When did U.S. businesses begin to capitalize on Christmas?
►Would President Grant have witnessed a similar Christmas celebration in Boston and Savannah?
►Would George Washington recognize our Christmas? How about Andrew Jackson? Abraham Lincoln? Teddy Roosevelt?
►What happened to Christmas after WWII?
►Is it a bad thing that non-Christians and/or non-practicing Christians celebrate Christmas?
🚩About My Guest:
Dr. Roberts is a Professor of History and Online Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Liberty University. His research interests include early American intellectual and economic history. He has lectured and published widely in the fields of the American Founding, monetary and banking history, American intellectual life, and Southern literature. He has been a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church of America and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Here is his academic homepage.
Also, watch my interview with Dr. David Silverman about the real history of Thanksgiving.
I hope you enjoy these interviews about the history behind our news.
Adel Aali, host & producer
History Behind News podcast & on YouTube
Scholars Unravel Middle East:
An in-depth history and analysis of the Middle East available on Spotify, Apple, Castbox, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music or Radio Public.
SUPPORT:
Click here and join our other supporters in the news peeler community. Thank you.
promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
piece has been edited into shorter segments, its volume adjusted, and played in different parts of this podcast. https://freesound.org/people/nsmusic/sounds/259692/ Music available on https://freesound.org/ Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0 DEED) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
More shows like History Behind News Program
View all
Radiolab
43,882 Listeners
Planet Money
30,716 Listeners
The President’s Inbox
719 Listeners
History That Doesn't Suck
6,106 Listeners
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum
8,464 Listeners
Today, Explained
10,203 Listeners
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
4,045 Listeners
In Moscow's Shadows
372 Listeners
The Rest Is History
15,502 Listeners
The Ezra Klein Show
15,845 Listeners
SPYCRAFT 101
347 Listeners
Ones and Tooze
339 Listeners
Honestly with Bari Weiss
8,726 Listeners
The Foreign Affairs Interview
451 Listeners
The Economics Show
144 Listeners