William Armistead Christian Jr. (born 1944) is an American

religious historian The history of religion refers to the written record of human religious feelings, thoughts, and ideas. This period of religious history begins with the invention of writing about 5,200 years ago (3200 BC). The prehistory of religion involves th ...

and

independent scholar A scholar is a person who pursues academic and intellectual activities, particularly academics who apply their intellectualism into expertise in an area of study. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researche ...

. He was the J.E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor in Religious Studies at

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the U ...

. Christian is a graduate of the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

(PhD 1971).

Awards

* 1986 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

*''Moving crucifixes in modern Spain'',

Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financia ...

, 1992
''Visionaries: The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ''
University of California Press, 1996,
''Local religion in sixteenth-century Spain''
reprint, Princeton University Press, 1989,
''Apparitions in late Medieval and Renaissance Spain''
Princeton University Press, 1981, (reprint, Princeton University Press, 1989, )
''Person and God in a Spanish Valley''
Seminar Press, 1972, (reprint Princeton University Press, 1989, ) *''Divided island: faction and unity on Saint Pierre'', Harvard University Press, 1969 *''Religiosidad local en la España de Felipe II''], Translators Javier Calzada, José Luis Gil Aristu, Editorial NEREA, 1991,
''La Fiesta en el mundo hispánico''
Editors Palma Martínez-Burgos García, Alfredo Rodríguez González, Univ de Castilla La Mancha, 2004, *''Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500-1960'', The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures, Central European University Press, 2012, *''The Stranger, the Tears, the Photograph, the Touch; Divine Presence in Spain and Europe since 1500'', Central European University Press, 2017,

References

American historians of religion University of California, Santa Barbara faculty MacArthur Fellows Living people University of Michigan alumni 1944 births Harvard University alumni {{US-historian-stub