The Popular Church and Revolutionary Insurgency in El Salvador

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This essay reviews the following works: Vida, pasion y muerte del jesuita Rutilio Grande. By Rodolfo Cardenal. San Salvador: UCA Editores, 2016. Pp. 564. $12.00 paperback. ISBN: 9789996110283. Poets and Prophets of the Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador’s Civil War. By Joaquin M. Chavez. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii + 336. $74.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780199315512. The Salvador Option: The United States in El Salvador, 1977–1992. By Russell Crandall. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 690. $39.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781316500644. Assassination of a Saint: The Plot to Murder Oscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice. By Matt Eisenbrandt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 219. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780520286801. El Salvador: Historia contemporanea, 1808–2010. Edited by Carlos Gregorio Lopez Bernal. San Salvador: Editorial Universitaria, 2015. Pp. 424. ISBN: 9789992327869. A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura. By Eileen Markey. New York: Nation Books, 2016. Pp. 1 + 307. $26.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9781568585734. Priest under Fire: Padre David Rodriguez, the Catholic Church, and El Salvador’s Revolutionary Movement. By Peter M. Sanchez. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Pp. xvi + 308. $44.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780813061191. Liberation through Reconciliation: Jon Sobrino’s Christological Spirituality. By O. Ernesto Valiente. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015. Pp. 289. $35.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780823268870.