Holy Days Holidays

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Holy Days/ Holidays
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Religion/ Leisure

• Make sense of world which is beyond our
  observation, proof, understanding

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SimilaritiesCelebration

• affirm basic meaningfulness of universe sense
  of oneness with it

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• Cant force leisure, happens from inside out
• Celebration you dont work at it

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Free Will

• Religious belief, leisure spring from the ind will

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Integration

• Both integrative inclusive
• Wholeness
• transcendent

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Well-being/ Self realization

• Leisure state of mind personal develop.
• Free time potential spiritual growth

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Search for the Authentic

• Belief in authentic in purer/ simpler times
• modernism

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Ritual

• Perfunctory, conventionalized act thru which an
  ind portrays respect for some object of ultimate
  value

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Holidays

• All cultures religious ceremonies festivals
• Medieval Europe 1 in 3
• Reformation

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• Became multifaceted
• Urbanization termination of work

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18th Century Europe

• England Christmas, New Year, Whitsuntide
• Communal holidays

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• Saint Monday
• Sporting events
• Week-end tourism

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Canada/ US

• Various sources
• Patriotic
• Seasonal
• Religious
• Unofficial holidays

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• Ethnicity
• Eg Rosh Hashanah

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Statutory holidays
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• Holy day to holiday
• Eg Groundhog Day

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• Minor holidays

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Sunday/ Sabbath

• Judaism
• Christianity

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• Puritan mvt
• Book of Sports

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Organized religion

• Shapes leisure
• Worthy behavior/ qualities
• Restrictive influence

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Condemned

• Theatre
• Alcohol/ drugs
• Gambling
• Dancing
• Sexually related activity
• Idleness
• Violence/ cruelty

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Puritans

• Pleasure
• Class conflict

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• Original sin
• predestination

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Promoted

• Potluck suppers, festivals, raffles, fairs,
  athletic events

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Formal orgs

• YM-YWCAs
• YM-YWHAs
• Salvation Army
• Bnai Brith

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Leisure as Religion

• Dissatisfaction alternatives
• Fundamentalism

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• Cults

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• Leisure experience

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• Jogging/running
• Purification
• Transpersonal stage
• Mystical experience

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• Soccer

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Religion/ Leisure/ Postmodern Culture

• Truth belief systems
• Authentic self vs saturated self