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Ignacio Ellacuría

Historical Reality, Liberation, and the Role of the University

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A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance

Part of the book series: Transgressions ((TRANS))

Abstract

There he lay. Face down on the lawn with a bullet in his head. Along with the seminarians’ cook, her daughter, and five of his fellow Jesuit priests, Ignacio Ellacuría was assassinated by members of the Salvadoran military’s elite Atlacatl unit on November 16, 1989.

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  1. Michael E. Lee
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  1. Southeastern Louisiana University, USA

    James D. Kirylo

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Lee, M.E. (2013). Ignacio Ellacuría. In: Kirylo, J.D. (eds) A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance. Transgressions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-374-4_11

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