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Person and God in a Spanish Valley

William A. Christian

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Person and God in a Spanish Valley

A classic twentieth-century work in the anthropology of Catholicism, Person and God in a Spanish Valley is a moving portrait of how individuals and communities in a remote, mountainous valley of northern Spain relate to the divine. In the late 1960s, anthropologist and historian William A. Christian, Jr., conducted groundbreaking fieldwork in the Nansa Valley, one of the most devout regions of Spain. With sensitivity and uncommon insight, Christian describes the complex system of shrines, devotions, and pilgrimages that existed in the region for centuries, and recounts the disruption of the valley's traditional way of life as young priests from urban centers arrived carrying a more modern, Vatican II version of Catholicism. Person and God in a Spanish Valley places Catholic faith and practice within a broader history of agrarian politics and reform in northern Spain, and stands as a landmark work of modern anthropology.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2020
ISBN-13
9780691214757
Genre
Nonfiction
Topics
Anthropology of religionCatholicism in SpainRural community and tradition

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