Author: Peterson, Anna Lisa
Title: Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion : Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador's Civil War
Description: Albany [NY], State University of New York, 1997. orig. wrappers. 22x15cm, xxiv,211 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Draws on extensive fieldwork to explore the ways in which 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 explain repression in religious terms and propose specific responses to violence" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: El Salvador, Politics Government, Martyrdom, Political History, Civil War, Catholic Church, Central America, ,