Description: From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals : Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution, Hardcover by Binford, Leigh, ISBN 1978833695, ISBN-13 9781978833692, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology came to take up arms and participate on the side of the rebel FMLN during El Salvador's revolutionary war (1980-92). In the process they became transformed from popular intellectuals to insurgent intellectuals who put their organizational and cognitive skills at the service of a collective effort to create a more egalitarian and democratic society. Th highlights the key roles that peasant catechists in northern Morazâan played in disseminating liberation theology before the war and supporting the FMLN during it-as quartermasters, political activists, and musicians, among other roles. Throughout, From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals highlights the dialectical nature of relations between Catholic priests and urban revolutionaries, among others, in which the latter learned from the former and vice-versa. Peasant catechists proved capable at making independent decisions based on assessment of their needs and did not simply follow the dictates of those with superior authority, and played an important role for the duration of the twelve-year military conflict"--
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Book Title: From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals : Peasant Catechists in t
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals : Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: World / Caribbean & Latin American, Latin America / Central America, Christian Theology / Liberation, Religion, Politics & State, Sociology of Religion
Item Weight: 16.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Leigh Binford
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Religion, Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
