Augusto Cesar Sandino: Messiah of Light and Truth

by Marco Aurelio Navarro-Genie

Overview

This text aims to present a revelatory examination of the life and times of Augusto Sandino, the Nicaraguan rebel leader who has become a national icon and messianic prophet, sheding light on the man's complex nature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815629498
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2002
Series:	Religion and Politics Series
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.77(d)

Table of Contents

	Illustrations	xi
	Preface	xiii
	Abbreviations	xvii
	Introduction	xix
1.	From Misery to Rebellion	3
2.	In Defense of the Motherland	35
3.	Revolutionary Triangle	62
4.	The Messianic Calling	89
5.	Peace and Death	117
6.	Sandino's Millenarianism	142
	Works Cited	175
	Index	185

Editorial Reviews

This well-crafted volume . . . offers a psychological analysis of the intrepid revolutionary leader who was haunted by the stigma of illegitimacy and obsessed with a sense of personal dignity. . . . This book adds greatly to the literature of the enigma that is Nicaragua.

Choice

Mesoamerican Religion Marco Aurelio Navarro-Genie offers a spiritual biography of a Nicaraguan revolutionary in Augusto Cesar Sandino: Messiah of Light and Truth. Sandino, an early 20th-century firebrand from whom the Sandinista government later took its name, has been studied before, but not with this kind of attention to his unique theology and millenarian worldview. At the end of his life, he believed himself to be the Messiah, and his determination to free his people from oppression deeply influenced liberation theologians later in the 20th century. This is an accessible biography with a fresh, long-overdue perspective. (Aug.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Most accounts of Sandino (1895-1934) and his resistance to US domination of Nicaragua in the 1920s and 1930s focus on his politics. Nicaraguan native Navarro-G<'e>nie (political science, St. Mary's College and Mount Royal College, Calgary) brings his religious ideas and dispositions into the picture, and factors them into his political activities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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