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Priest Under Fire: Padre David Rodrguez, the Catholic Church, and El Salvadors Revolutionary Movement
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A valuable book that goes beyond the specifics of one priests life to provide insight into the Salvadoran civil war.Arthur Leigh Binford, coeditor of Landscapes of Struggle: Politics, Society, and Community in El SalvadorThe fascinating story of Father David Rodrguez sheds light on half a century of El Salvadors troubled history and helps to understand the impact of liberation theology.Hctor LindoFuentes, coauthor of Modernizing Minds in El Salvador: Education Reform and the Cold War, 19601980Documents Rodriguezs lifean important contribution in and of itselfand shows how religiously grounded leaders like Rodrguez were crucial to the success of revolutionary movements.Anna Peterson, coeditor of Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the AmericasSnchez challenges fellow specialists by introducing new evidence and placing Father David in the context of socialmovement scholarship. Priest Under Fire is an important and engaging contribution.Erik Ching, author of Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 18801940David Rodriguez, or Padre David as he is known throughout El Salvador, is a diocesan priest who followed the Second Vatican Councils doctrinal mandate to advocate for the poor and oppressed. In the 1970s, he joined the largest guerilla organization in El Salvador, the FPL (Popular Liberation Forces) and would later be a member of the resulting political party, the FMLN (Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front). Along with other progressive clergy committed to liberation theology, Padre David helped drive forward the countrys popular movement.In Priest Under Fire, Peter Snchez tells the story of how one priest joined a movement to help his people and his country. He provides muchneeded insight into both the Salvadoran civil war and the Catholic Churchinfluenced grassroots political movements, showing that they continue to inform Latin America today.
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