The spiritual evolution of Margarito Bautista Mexican Mormon evangelizer, polygamist dissident, and utopian founder, 1878-1961 /

A spiritual biography, this book chronicles the journey of Margarito Bautista (1878-1961) from Mormonism to the Third Convention, a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) splinter group he fomented in 1935-1936, to Colonia Industrial/Nueva Jerusalén, a polygamist utopia Bautista founded in 1947. It argues that B...

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Main Author: Pulido, Elisa (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford Scholarship Online
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Subjects:
Bautista, Margarito, -- 1878-1961.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Biography.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Political activity -- Mexico.
Church and state -- Mexico.
Online Access:Oxford scholarship online - Click here for access
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Summary:A spiritual biography, this book chronicles the journey of Margarito Bautista (1878-1961) from Mormonism to the Third Convention, a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) splinter group he fomented in 1935-1936, to Colonia Industrial/Nueva Jerusalén, a polygamist utopia Bautista founded in 1947. It argues that Bautista embraced Mormon belief in indigenous exceptionalism in 1901 and rapidly rose through the ranks of Mormon priesthood until convinced that the Mormon hierarchy was not invested in the development of native American peoples, as promoted in the Church's canon. This realisation resulted in tensions over indigenous self-governance within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) and Bautista's 1937 excommunication.
Item Description:Also issued in print: 2020.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (344 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190942137 (ebook) :

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