The book “Advent and Christmas – For believers and non-believers”, published by the Catholic publisher Paulus, was presented in the chapel of the Amoreiras shopping centre, in Lisbon. In announcing the initiative to the press, the authors stated that “the decision to launch the book in a shopping centre instead of a place of worship was a deliberate choice, meant as an excellent metaphor of the contents of the book”. Speaking of the part drawn up with believers in mind, Isabel Figueiredo explained that she tried to write “with the evangelical texts under her eyes, in an exercise of reading and reflection that wanted to emphasise that the essence of Christmas lies in making people face the extraordinary event that is Jesus’s birth”. From this point of view, according to the author, “it is very important for the Nativity scene not to disappear from the universe of Christmas, because it recalls those family values of expectation and hope that many people are still very fond of”. In his turn, Jorge Reis-Sá, who wrote the part of the book for non-believers, pointed out that “it would make no sense trying to fight Christmas in its consumerist dimension, because it would be like trying to defend oneself from a giant wave, but it is equally significant that a place of worship may exist in a shopping centre”.