Person and God in a Spanish Valley: Revised Edition

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'William Christian has given us an extremely sensitive study of man, religion and society in a valley in Northern Spain...The reader somehow experiences the passing of the generations and the centuries, the succession of priests with different views, each representative of the Catholicism of his time, the propagation and then institutionalization of ever-changing forms of worship, and the tension set up between innovating priest and conservative community...All in all I find this a truly admirable book. Not only will it be of value to students of the subject, it should also give them much pleasure.' -Emanuel de Kadt, Religion

William A. Christian, Jr., is a religious historian and independent scholar. His books include Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain, and Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain (all Princeton).

"[This book] successfully straddle[s] the interests of the religious or theological specialist and those of the social scientist ... William Christian has given us an extremely sensitive study of man, religion and society in a valley in Northern Spain..."--Religion