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<br> In a country still torn over the war by polarizing accusations amplified by righteous self-exculpation, Garrard-Burnett listens carefully to as many sides as her sources allow-the Left, the Right, Catholic activists, evangelicals, the US embassy-to conclude that states turn genocidal, not just because they can, but because both perpetrators and public come to see their self-preservation, if not salvation, at stake. In helping us understand better that self-preservation, this book also speaks with respect-and hope-to the survivors. We should all be listening carefully. <br><br>--John Watanabe, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College<p><br> This is a careful narrative and sober analysis of Mott's seventeenth-month regime in Guatemala. --Religious Studies Review<p><br>

<br> In a country still torn over the war by polarizing accusations amplified by righteous self-exculpation, Garrard-Burnett listens carefully to as many sides as her sources allow-the Left, the Right, Catholic activists, evangelicals, the US embassy-to conclude that states turn genocidal, not just because they can, but because both perpetrators and public come to see their self-preservation, if not salvation, at stake. In helping us understand better that self-preservation, this book also speaks with respect-and hope-to the survivors. We should all be listening carefully. <br><br>--John Watanabe, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College<p><br> This is a careful narrative and sober analysis of Mott's seventeenth-month regime in Guatemala. --Religious Studies Review<p><br>Virginia Garrard-Burnett's examination of General Efra n R os Montt is one of the best available historicalpolitical analyses of Guatemala's brutal armed conflict...Garrard-Burnett is arguably one of the most important contemporary historians of Protestantism in Latin <br>America. In this slim volume, she not only demonstrates her deep and nuanced understanding of the evangelical movement in Guatemala but also explains <br>the dynamics and contours of the political crisis that brought R os Montt to power in 1982. --American Historical Review<p><br>

<br> In a country still torn over the war by polarizing accusations amplified by righteous self-exculpation, Garrard-Burnett listens carefully to as many sides as her sources allow-the Left, the Right, Catholic activists, evangelicals, the US embassy-to conclude that states turn genocidal, not just because they can, but because both perpetrators and public come to see their self-preservation, if not salvation, at stake. In helping us understand better that self-preservation, this book also speaks with respect-and hope-to the survivors. We should all be listening carefully. <br>--John Watanabe, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College<br>

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