William A. Christian
Encyclopedia
William A. Christian is a religious historian
, and was the J.E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished
Visiting Professor in Religious Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara
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Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, and was the J.E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished
Visiting Professor in Religious Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
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Works
- "Secular and Religious Impulses to a Child's Potentially Fatal Illness in the Canary Islands", Arxiu d'Ethnographia de Cataluyna 1989 7:39-55
- Moving crucifixes in modern Spain, Princeton University Press, 1992
- Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ, University of California Press, 1996, ISBN 9780520200401
- Local religion in sixteenth-century Spain, reprint, Princeton University Press, 1989, ISBN 9780691008271
- Apparitions in late Medieval and Renaissance Spain, Princeton University Press, 1981, ISBN 9780691053264 (reprint, Princeton University Press, 1989, ISBN 9780691008264)
- Person and God in a Spanish Valley, Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 1972, ISBN 9780127851198 (reprint Princeton University Press, 1989, ISBN 9780691028453)
- Divided island: faction and unity on Saint Pierre, Harvard University Press, 1969
- Meaning and truth in religion, Princeton University Press, 1964
- Religiosidad local en la España de Felipe II, Translators Javier Calzada, José Luis Gil Aristu, Editorial NEREA, 1991, ISBN 9788486763596
- La Fiesta en el mundo hispánico, Editors Palma Martínez-Burgos García, Alfredo Rodríguez González, Univ de Castilla La Mancha, 2004, ISBN 9788484272939