- Hardcover: 167 pages
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press (Oct 1 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0807831816
- ISBN-13: 978-0807831816
- Product Dimensions: 2.9 x 2.2 x 0.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 975 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,659,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.5 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Popular and Scholarly work on Christmas, Dec 2 2007
By Roberta - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Moravian Christmas in the South (Hardcover)
This is a beautifully produced 'Christmas book', with many vintage and modern photographs related to the Moravian observance of Christmas in American South: the churches where they worshipped ,their Christmas trees, and decorations as well as photographs of secular Christmas features contemporary with the period covered; roughly 1750's - 1950. The author provides a brief history of the "Moravians in the South", proceeds to provide an interesting and entertaining description of the Moravian Christmas. One might consider this a nice Social History of the Southern Moravian Christmas experience: It is not just that these folks put up decorations and baked buns but that, those things were 'of a piece' with their Christian Faith and how it related to their church family and community. But this is NOT a religious production.The author has taken pains - awkwardly, I believe - to glide over the seriously Christocentric mindset of the Moravians, that would have informed their celebration of Christmas. She states she is not a "theological person" or of Moravian background. This is fair enough. But Moravians did not celebrate Christmas because they were of a "whatever" "religious bent". Perhaps Ms.Smith - Thomas did not want to offend those of other faiths or of no faith. In which case, CHRISTmas is not the subject one ought to write about.
This is a popular but scholarly work. The narrative will be interesting to adults but the photographs will be appreciated by children as well. There is a substantive Bibliography, footnotes, index and photography credits.
The book is bound in a deep red cloth (real cloth not paper) with gilt printing on the spine.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
My book review, Jan 30 2008
A Kid's Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Moravian Christmas in the South (Hardcover)
This was a nice book that my grandmom had at her house. There was nothing to do because everyone was yelling about the turkey being bad and mom had too much of her medicine so I went upstairs and was reading this book. Its sad what they did to the moravians but it was interesting to learn why they got kicked out of Pennslavania and about George Washinton. The pictures were pretty too.
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