Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador’s Civil War

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By examining the ways that Catholic activists responded to political violence in El Salvador all the way through the 1970s and 1980s, this book documents the beliefs and history of an important religious community, and explores the nature of religion’s role in political ideology and mobilization.

Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion explores the ways that Salvadoran Catholics sought to make sense of political violence in their country in the 1970s and 1980s by constructing a theological ethics that could both give an explanation for repression in religious terms and propose specific responses to violence. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the book highlights the ways that progressive Catholicism offered a justification and tools for political resistance in the face of peculiar destruction. The use of the case of Catholicism in El Salvador, the book explores the nature of religious responses to social crisis and the ways that bizarre believers construct and strive to live by ethical systems. By highlighting the importance of theological belief, of narrative, and of religious rationality in political mobilization, it touches questions of general interest to readers concerned with the social role of religion and ethics.

“The writer employs research that is both methodologically and conceptually innovative. She is working where the field of religion and politics in Latin The us needs to be headed: research that makes a speciality of the participants themselves and not just an institutional analysis of church and state.” — Michael A. Burdick, Center for the Study of Religion, University of California, Santa Barbara

“This can be a revelatory work. The reader is provided with fresh and odd insights. There are popular accounts of life and death in Central The us but none, to my knowledge, that approach the subject from the theological depth which the writer possesses.” — Edward L. Cleary, Providence College

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