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Auteur(s) : Pulido, Elisa
Titre(s) : The spiritual evolution of Margarito Bautista [Texte imprimé] : Mexican Mormon evangelizer, polygamist dissident, and utopian founder, 1878-1961 / Elisa Eastwood Pulido
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University Press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-337 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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 them, estranged him from both Euro-American
and Mexican Mormons. Nevertheless, These same views propelled him on to his ultimate
calling and mission, that of an independent religious entrepreneur and utopian founder.
I will show that the roots of Bautista's uncompromising doctrine and religious activism
are multiple and complex. They are found in the Mexican anarchism extant in the farmlands
of central Mexico where he was raised, in the flourishing cultural nationalism of
Mexico, in the transnational perspective created by his frequent movement across borders,
and in the tenets of early Mormonism, which Bautista learned while a resident from
1903 to 1910 in the polygamist Mormon Colonies in the wilderness of northern Mexico"
Sujet(s) : Bautista, Margarito (1878-1961)
Église et État -- Mexique -- 20e siècle
Eglise de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours -- Activité politique -- Mexique
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
289.309 (23e éd.) = Églises originaires du mouvement des Saints des derniers jours - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780190942137. - ISBN 0190942134. - ISBN 9780190942113. - ISBN 0190942118. -
ISBN 0190942126. - ISBN 9780190942120. - ISBN 9780190942106. - ISBN 019094210X (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46542917p
Notice n° :
FRBNF46542917
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
