9781620553688 | 2 edition (Inner Traditions, November 20, 2014), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Reveals how Christian mythology has more to do with long-standing pagan traditions than the Bible • Explains how the church fathers knowingly incorporated pagan elements into the Christian faith to ease the transition to the new religion • Identifies pagan deities that were incorporated into each of the saints • Shows how all the major holidays in the Christian calendar are modeled on pagan rituals and myths, including Easter and Christmas In this extensive study of the Christian mythology that animated Europe in the Middle Ages, author Philippe Walter reveals how these stories and the holiday traditions connected with them are based on long-standing pagan rituals and myths and have very little connection to the Bible.

9781594770968 | Inner Traditions, June 27, 2006, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A thought-provoking study reveals how Christian mythology of the Middle Ages was primarily of pagan inspiration, highlighting major holidays on the Christian calendar that are modeled on pagan traditions and pagan deities that were incorporated into each of the saints.

9781594776809 | Inner Traditions, August 23, 2011, cover price $16.95

9780814662441 | Pueblo Books, February 15, 2011, cover price $29.95

9780805057232 | Metropolitan Books, January 9, 2007, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: 'Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.

9780805057249 | Reprint edition (Henry Holt & Co, December 26, 2007), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The author of the critically acclaimed Blood Rites examines the human impulse toward collective joy, historically expressed in communal celebrations, reflecting the human nature as social beings and involving ecstatic revelries of feasting, costuming, and dancing, from the ancient Greeks’ worship of Dionysus to the more recent “carnivalization” of sports.

9780786162451 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 9, 2007), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Examines the human impulse toward collective joy, historically expressed in communal celebrations involving revelries of feasting, costuming, and dancing, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the more recent 'carnivalization' of sports.

9780786172030 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Examines the human impulse toward collective joy, historically expressed in communal celebrations involving revelries of feasting, costuming, and dancing, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the more recent 'carnivalization' of sports.

9780786162406 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2007), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Examines the human impulse toward collective joy, historically expressed in communal celebrations involving revelries of feasting, costuming, and dancing, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the more recent 'carnivalization' of sports.

9780786147946 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, January 9, 2007), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Examines the human impulse toward collective joy, historically expressed in communal celebrations involving revelries of feasting, costuming, and dancing, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the more recent 'carnivalization' of sports.

9780786147977 | Blackstone Audio Inc, January 1, 2007, cover price $72.95

9780312340681 | St Martins Pr, August 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A culinary tour through the histories of numerous feast activities provides detailed descriptions of such dining traditions as Medieval and Renaissance banquets, the blubber meals of North America, and the exotic tea ceremonies of Japan.

9780835608107 | 1 edition (Quest Books, August 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A joyful guide to the great festivals of the Orthodox Christian calendar follows the year in ritual, from the Feast of Michaelmas in September through Pentacost and beyond.

9781569553060 | Vine Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Originally written and published for the Christian market, this updated and expanded version includes everything from the first edition plus more!

9780830734429 | Vine Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: From the secular to the sacred, this book answers your questions about our holiday traditions.