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Every December, as the days grow colder and the Christmas season approaches, religious conflicts throughout America heat up. The season celebrating joy, happiness and peace is fraught with tension in some communities because of disputes over Nativity scenes on public property.
OUT OF PRINT REPLACED BY DECEMBER WARSThis is a book about the now-annual controversies surrounding Christmas (and to a lesser extend Hanukkah, only because the two quite-different holidays have become linked in the public mind.) Should there be cr?ches in public parks, from the White House to the smallest village green? Should ""o Come All Ye Faithful"" be sung in public school classrooms or assemblies? What does the constitution say? What do the people think? Why do Christians and Jews become wary of each other's intentions during this frenzied, family-oriented, and often joyful season?
Albert J. Menendez is a nationally respected author whose seventeen published books have run the gamut of church-state relations and religious history. In addition to an eight-volume reference series published by Garland Publishing Company, Menendez is the author of ""Christmas in the White House"", ""John F. Kennedy: Catholic and Humanist"" and ""Religion at the Polls"" (named one the outstanding books in religion in 1977).
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