Christmas is a religious festival. Although it now falls under several other types, it is the most important calendar celebration for Christians. However, as a festival it never ceases to provide very interesting new material for study that is as evergreen as one of its main symbols. We will therefore attempt another brief study of it as a traditional festival.
Christmas is the greatest of all festivals in the world today; the largest, the most popular, the most many-sided and multi-faceted, the most multi-cultural and the most joyous. It has far outgrown its Christian religious roots and significance to become the most widespread secular and commercial festival in the world. Wherever it appears it still maintains the Western characteristics it has acquired over time, but it is celebrated by a much larger number of non-Christians than Christian
