Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain ：Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Christian William A. Jr.;;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400862627

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691073873

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword： 社会学

Language： ENG

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Why are religious visions believed only in certain times and places? In this book William Christian investi gates the settings and responses to a series of group visions reported by Spaniards in rural Galicia, Valencia, Cantabria, and Navarre in the early part of this century the most notable one involving the crucifix at Limpias, where Jesus was first seen agonizing on the cross during a mission service in March of 1919. In light of the social strife and strong anticlerical movements of the period, the author examines how gender and religious politics influenced the experiences of seers and the interpretation of their visions by church officials, journalists, and the public. Christian approaches the story inductively, from the visionaries and the parish to the religious orders, diocesan officials, and Vatican envoys. He places the events in the context of mission dramaturgy and pilgrimages to Lourdes, and shows their ramifications in Italy, Mexico, the United States, France, and Central Europe. Using oral testimony, church archives, local newspaper accounts, and apologetic literature, Christian finds that some observers related the moving crucifixes to a logical, millenarian sequence that included earlier apparitions in France; for others they were divine reactions to national political events; while for many local people they were signs for the establishment of new shrines. His study reveals the preoccupations of ordinary people and how they found expression in religiou

Chapter

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Appendix Tables

Acknowledgments

Prologue

I. Contexts of Belief and Disbelief and the Christ of Gandfa

II. The Christ of Limpias: The Rise and Decline of a New Shrine

III. The Christ of Limpias: The Organization of Meaning

IV. The Christ of Piedramillera

Epilogue: The View from Eraul

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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