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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: spiritual evolution of Margarito Bautista
    sub title: Mexican Mormon evangelizer, polygamist dissident, and utopian founder, 1878-1961
  name:
    name part: Pulido, Elisa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (x, 337 pages)
  abstract: "In 1903, at the age of twenty-four, Margarito Bautista (1878-1961) left his childhood home on Mexico's Central Plateau and relocated to the Mormon Colonies in the northern Mexican wilderness. Enthused by his recent conversion to Mormonism, Bautista wanted to live in proximity to and learn from the Euro-Americans who had evangelized him. Nearly forty years later, as a Mormon excommunicate and religious entrepreneur, he returned permanently to the Central Plateau to establish his own indigenously-led polygamous utopia in the town of Ozumba. In this volume I have tried to answer two central questions concerning Bautista's journey: After dedicating so many years of his life to the evangelization of Mexicans on both sides of the U.S. border, what led to his separation from the Mormon Church? How did he become the founder of an indigenous movement which observed Mormonism's most difficult practices? My study of Bautista's spiritual trajectory has been an exercise in deep "listening" to the writings he left: a 564-page tome that employs an indigenous hermeneutic in its melding of Mormon theology and the history of Mexico, nearly sixteen years of diaries, numerous letters, and multiple pamphlets. Bautista is often represented as the sole creator of his Mexican-inspired improvisations on Mormon doctrine. The Mormon Church however played a major role in his spiritual education. Bautista took his life-long views on indigenous exceptionalism directly from Mormon scripture. In the two decades following his conversion Bautista thrived under the Mormon umbrella, moving through the ranks of Mormon priesthood, mastering Mormon doctrine and scripture in English, and becoming acquainted with esoteric temple rituals. But in 1924 his meteoric rise stalled. In this volume I will demonstrate that Bautista's insistence on independent Mexican ecclesiastical authority and his fundamentalist clinging to historical practices and doctrines, at a time when the mainstream Church was abandoning t…
  table of contents: A Brief History of Indigenous Religious Authority in Mexico: 1519-1900 -- The Mormons in Mexico, 1875-1901 -- Bautista Embraces Mormonism, 1901-1910 -- North of the U.S.-Mexico Border: From Refugee and Pilgrim to Mexican Cultural Nationalist, 1910-1922 -- Conflict with Euro-American Mormon Leadership, 1922-1935 -- Bautista's Magnum Opus: La evolución de México, 1930-1935 -- Bautista's Repatriation to Mexico, 1935 -- The Third Convention, April 21, 1936 -- Creating Utopia: Colonia Industrial/Nueva Jerusalén, 1942-1961.
  note: Elisa Eastwood Pulido.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bautista, Margarito
      name part: 1878-1961
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    topic: Political activity
    geographic: Mexico
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  subject:
    topic: Church and state
    geographic: Mexico
  subject:
    topic: Mexico
  subject:
    topic: Latin America
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
  subject:
    topic: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
  subject:
    topic: Christianity
  subject:
    topic: Denominations
  subject:
    topic: Church and state
  subject:
    topic: Political participation
  subject:
    geographic: Mexico
  classification: BX8678.B38 P85 2020
  classification: 289.3092 B
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    title info:
      title: The spiritual evolution of Margarito Bautista
    name:
      name part: Pulido, Elisa.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
    identifier: (DLC) 2019033990
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190804
    record change date: 20260319181331.1
    record identifier: in00005717738
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng