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From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals: Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution

by Binford

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • 19.7 x 23.5 x 1.7 cm

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For students of theology and Latin American history

Explains the role of lay faith in social revolution

Gain insight into how your faith fuels civic action

Discover the untold story of peasant catechists in El Salvador’s revolutionary struggle.

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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. The book highlights the key roles that peasant catechists in northern Morazán 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.

  • Title

    From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals: Peasant Catechists in the Salvadoran Revolution

  • Author

    Binford

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Rutgers University Press

  • Published

    December 2022

  • Weight

    336g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    19.7 x 23.5 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781978833685

  • ISBN-10

    1978833687

  • Eden Code

    5668676