“Painting possesses a truly divine power in thatnot only does it make the absent present(as they say of friendship), but it also representsthe dead to the living many centuries later, sothey are recognized by spectators with pleasureand deep admiration for the artist.”Leon Battista Alberti, On Paint...

Supernatural and the Absent in World War I postcards

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William A. Christian (21 janv. 2013)

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In France, as the prospect of conflict with Germany increased, starting June 30, 1913, first two girls, then scores of adults, began to have visions in the village of Alzonne, 10 kilometers from Carcassonne. The visions started in poplars on the bank of the River Fresquel, then spread to the sky abo...

Chapter 1. Toribia del Val and the Mysterious Wayfarer of Casas de Benítez

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William A. Christian (21 janv. 2013)

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For several years the medievalist Lisa Bitel and the photographer Matt Gainer attended the monthly visions of María Paula Acuña, a mother of six in her fifties, in the Mojave Desert of California. I went twice, taking students. Typically, hundreds of Latino-American pilgrims would be waiting when Ma...

Chapter 2. Images as Beings: Blood, Sweat, and Tears

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William A. Christian (21 janv. 2013)

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Toribia del Valintroduced one of the ways of connecting with the divine: the visit of a supernatural with counsel and instructions for a specific purpose, in her case to end a drought in 1931. Because Toribia saw the visitor and no one else did, we call this a vision, or, from the point of view of a...

Connecting with the Absent and the Super naturals

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William A. Christian (21 janv. 2013)

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Composite images, whether by photomontage, multiple exposure, sandwiched negatives, or other techniques, provided other solutions to the depiction of visions. Since the earliest days of their craft, photographers had experimented with combinations. The postcard trade encouraged the notion of absence...

Visions Depicted

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William A. Christian (21 janv. 2013)

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Photography brought an immediacy to the depiction of visions, but at the same time presented a basic problem, one that has always been present for people seeing others have visions: by definition one cannot see what only seers see (Fig. 47). For documentary photos of visionaries, the proof and the a...

Summing up

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William A. Christian (21 janv. 2013)

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If one conclusion from these three chapters would be that very little religious gets permanently thrown away, another would be that people embody history, literature, images. History is important, because what happened to our families, our towns, our nations, our peoples in the past—our wars, our de...

Absence and presence in family photographs around World War I

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William A. Christian (21 janv. 2013)

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Photomontage was used in real, studio portraits as well (the examples I have are Spanish, French, Belgian, Dutch, Russian and Italian) to unite couples and familles separated by emigration, military service, imprisonment or death. For separation is an intimation of death, death once removed. In the...

Divine Presence in Spain and Western Europe 1500-1960

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William A. Christian (21 janv. 2013)

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This study addresses the relation of people to divine beings in contemporary and historical communities, as exemplified in three strands. One is a long tradition of visions of mysterious wayfarers in rural Spain who bring otherworldly news and help, including recent examples. Another treats the seem...

L’Angélus dans la boîte à lettres

Articles

William A. Christian Jr et al. (15 sept. 2015)

Articles

En France, la popularité des cartes postales inspirées de L’Angélus de Jean-François Millet coïncide avec les débats publics qui ont accompagné la promulgation de la loi Combes de 1905. À partir des centaines de cartes accessibles sur le site internet de vente aux enchères Delcampe, les auteurs étud...

Nostalgie

Autres

Olivia Angé et al. (15 sept. 2015)

Autres

Aujourd'hui, une fièvre nostalgique glorifiant les pratiques et les objets d'antan s'exprime dans des domaines aussi divers que le nationalisme, les politiques patrimoniales, le consumérisme, l'industrie du tourisme, la culture populaire et les mouvements religieux ou écologiques. Les anthropologues...

Peace, War, Accusations, Criticism, and the Virgin, Medjugorje and the anthropology of Marian apparitions

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Elisabeth Claverie (2009)

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Peace, War, Accusations, Criticism, and the Virgin, Medjugorje and the anthropology of Marian apparitions

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Elisabeth Claverie (2009)

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William A. Christian, Jr., Visionaries, The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ

Recensions

Elisabeth Claverie (2000)

Recensions

Claverie Élisabeth. William A. Christian, Jr., Visionaries, The Spanish Republic and the Reign of Christ. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 55ᵉ année, N. 3, 2000. pp. 712-714.

William A. Christian, Jr., Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain

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Michel Lagrée (2000)

Recensions

Lagrée Michel. William A. Christian, Jr., Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 55ᵉ année, N. 3, 2000. pp. 711-712.

William A. Christian, Jr., Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Recensions

Davydd J. Greenwood (1982)

Recensions

Greenwood Davydd J. William A. Christian, Jr., Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 37ᵉ année, N. 3, 1982. pp. 510-513.

William A. Christian, Meaning and truth in religion

Recensions

Simon Decloux (1966)

Recensions

Decloux Simon. William A. Christian, Meaning and truth in religion. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 64, n°84, 1966. p. 650.