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

by Leigh Binford

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978833687
• ISBN13: 9781978833685
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher