Christmas between miracle and the market economy
Christmas between miracle and the market economy

Summary/Abstract: Christmas is one of the biggest religious holidays and also one of the most beautiful by combining faith that celebrates the Nativity with Santa's coming tradition, full of gifts for the children behaved. It is also a business forartisans and merchants, from toy manufacturers to electronics, from small producers who sell at Christmas fairs to majorcompanies, whose products dominate supermarket shelves. Also, is traveling time, for pleasure for tourists who prefer themountain to practice winter sports, to those who go home to parents or relatives or those who feel the need to go onpilgrimage to the Holy Land to celebrate Christian the birth of Christ. This article aims to explore those situations wherecold calculation of merchants’ figures is changed by belief, by desire to do well to others, forgetting profit.

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