Augusto "Cesar" Sandino: Messiah of Light and Truth (Religion and Politics) [Hardcover]

Marco Aurelio Navarro-Genie (Author)

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Series: Religion and Politics | Publication Date: July 2002

A revelatory look at the life and times of Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader, national icon, messianic prophet.

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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.
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Offers a spiritual biography of a Nicaraguan revolutionary. . . .This is an accessible biography with a fresh, long-overdue perspective. -- Publishers Weekly

This well-crafted volume . . . offers a psychological analysis of the intrepid revolutionary leader who was haunted by the stigma of . . . -- Choice

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd); 1 edition (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815629494
• ISBN-13: 978-0815629498
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,482,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Augusto "Cesar" Sandino: Messiah of Light and Truth (Religion and Politics) (Hardcover)

This is an accessible biography of the Nicaraguan revolutionary guerrilla leader, Augusto Sandino, from whom the Sandinistas took their name. Sandino was a profoundly religious man. To be sure, some have called Sandino's religion to our attention before, but this book places Sandino under the light of his peculiar millenarian beliefs, and challenges the polarity of viewing Sandino as a patriotic national liberator or as a crazed murdering bandit. Mainly guided by the evidence, Navarro-Genie, who is himself born in Nicaragua but teaches in Canada, ably walks through the minefields of a few controversies, tracing the unfolding of Sandino's changing religious disposition with significant care and empathy. I thought the chapter on Sandino's trip to Mexico could have been tighter. In all, it is a long-overdue and novel interpretation of a very influential Latin American life. It will be interesting to see how Sandino's admirers and detractors will react to this revealing book.