Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Elisa Eastwood Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Ecclesiastical Authority ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Mormon Church ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The Church

Bautista’s life provides a Mormon chapter to the history of conflict over leadership between Euro-American missionary movements and their indigenous converts. Insistence on indigenous ecclesiastical authority and the practice of polygamy cost Bautista his membership in the Mormon Church and nearly every personal relationship. Nevertheless, Bautista never bowed to the pressure of Euro-American religious authority. His contributions include: congregation building in Central Mexico, the Mormon Colonies, Arizona, and Salt Lake City; teaching genealogical research methods to Mexicans from 1922 to 1924; his leadership role in the schismatic movement known as the Third Convention (1936); his authorship of the largest indigenous Mormon theological work to date; his decades of diaries; and the nearly seventy-year survival of his utopian community. His continuing relevance is underscored by the fact that increasing conversions among Latin Americans points to an indigenous majority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the near future.

North of the U.S.-Mexico Border

2020 ◽  
pp. 62-83
Author(s):  
Elisa Eastwood Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Mormon Church ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines Bautista’s U.S. residency (1910 to 1922) and its influence on his spiritual trajectory. It argues that during his first twelve years in the United States, Bautista experienced a decade of unprecedented personal growth and opportunity, which probably led him to expect a lifetime of increasing responsibility as a Mexican member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bautista crossed the border a month before the Mexican Revolution began. He settled first in Mesa, Arizona, but moved to Utah in 1913 where he helped found the first Spanish-speaking branch of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. Though initially a gardener on Temple Square, Bautista became president of his congregation and the Lamanite Genealogical Society, mastered temple rituals and Mormon doctrine, published an article, and spoke to audiences about his experiences as a Mexican Mormon.

Conflict with Euro-American Mormon Leadership, 1922–1935

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-107
Author(s):  
Elisa Eastwood Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Indigenous Leadership ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Mormon Church ◽  
Cristero Rebellion ◽  
The Church

This chapter discusses Margarito Bautista’s efforts as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico from 1922 to 1924, his preaching of unconventional doctrines while there, the fracas that ensued after his return to Salt Lake City over the lack of indigenous leadership in the Mexican Branch, and Bautista’s subsequently diminished influence in the Mormon Church. It argues that Bautista’s meteoric rise through the ranks of Mormon leadership came to a halt as he became increasingly insistent that Mexicans should govern their own congregations. Bautista’s name disappeared from the records of the Mexican Branch at about the same time the company that had employed him prior to his mission went bankrupt. During this period, his nationalism grew as he read about the Cristero Rebellion in Mexico. By 1930, without influence in the Church and unemployed, Bautista took up his pen and began to write.

Bautista’s Repatriation to Mexico, 1935

2020 ◽  
pp. 136-158
Author(s):  
Elisa Eastwood Pulido
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The Political ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
National Congress ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The Church

Bautista repatriated to Mexico in 1935 where he hoped to participate in the political, cultural, and spiritual evolution of Mexico. The chapter argues that despite disappointments in Salt Lake City, Bautista found purpose as he proselytized Mexicans, gave readings of his tome, and won the admiration of Mexican Mormons. The chapter follows Bautista’s efforts to publish and market his magnum opus, La evolución de México, including his attendance at Mexico’s Second National Congress of History, where he hoped to connect with Mexicans shaping the nation’s future. Though this attempt failed, Bautista’s authorship afforded him celebrity among Mexican Mormons, who financed the publication of his book. This celebrity waned when Harold W. Pratt informed Mexican members that the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would not endorse Bautista’s book. The chapter also discusses Bautista’s covert wooing of young women he hoped to make polygamous wives.

The Endless Postlude

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Branding Strategy ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
International Public Relations ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The Church

This chapter reflects on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's quest for spectacle throughout its existence. Since 1982, Jerold Ottley had asked the First Presidency for the Choir to have its own orchestra. Gordon Hinckley, now president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. favored Ottley's proposal. The result was the Orchestra at Temple Square, an in-house ensemble whose pretenses mirrored the Choir's huge accomplishments. This chapter first considers the Choir's use of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City as part of its international public relations efforts before discussing its activities under Craig Jessop and later, Mack Wilberg. It also discusses the Choir's branding strategy and the Church's release of a new General Handbook in 2010. It concludes by underscoring the Tabernacle Choir's important role in Mormon missionary work.

Splintered Saints and the Temple, 1844–1900

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Howlett
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Church

This chapter begins in the mid-nineteenth century, just as competing Mormon denominations coalesced. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City) and the smaller Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints emerged as the most important denominations for Kirtland's future. These two churches were rivals and actively competed with each other for converts, especially in the first decades of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' organization. More than simply competing for converts, though, the two churches developed different visions for the purpose and permeability of temple spaces, and much of these differences centered on their understanding of the legacy of the Kirtland Temple. In short, the Kirtland Temple was a living testament to different lineages of temple teachings present within Joseph Smith's many churches.

Education for Woman: The Utah Legacy

1976 ◽  
Vol 159 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
Shauna Adix
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Economic Base ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Equal Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The University

This article presents data on the history of women at the University of Utah from 1850 to 1915 in an effort to put into perspective the meaning behind the inclusion of women at the beginning of the institution at a time when that was still relatively uncommon nationwide. Information is drawn from an in-depth review of all primary resources in the Records Center and Archives of the University of Utah. Other relevant collections and manuscripts at the University of Utah and the Historical Department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, were also consulted. The findings lead to the conclusion that the inclusion of women had a pragmatic economic base, did not give them equal access to University resources, increasingly reinforced prevalent social expectations by educating them for roles as wives, mothers and teachers and was not rooted in a basic commitment to equal education for men and women.

Banking Enterprises in Utah, 1847–1880

1955 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 312-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard J. Arrington
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Mining Activity ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Banking Institutions ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The Church

The development of banking in Utah advanced by stages, each of which marked an increase in the degree of specialization practiced by institutions performing banking functions. After the first settlement of the territory in 1847, banking functions were assumed principally by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). With the inauguration of mining activity in the Mountain States in the early 1860's, formalized banking institutions were established in Salt Lake City. These miners' and merchants' banks predominated until the early 1880's when commercial banks were established in most of the settlement centers of the territory.

Privatizing the Temple Mount (Haram es-Sharif) and the Western Wall (Kotel)

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Michael J. Broyde ◽  
David Zeligman
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The Government ◽  
Temple Mount ◽  
The Temple ◽  
The Church ◽  
Western Wall

Abstract Proposals abound in Israel to address the question of pluralistic access to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. Each of these proposals has been a source of great controversy. In this article, we propose a Swiftian solution of privatization. We propose that the government of Israel sell the Temple Mount, the Western Wall, and many other holy sites to specific faith groups that will then operate them as private property, with the ability to restrict various rights within them. This proposal is based on a model adopted and implemented in Salt Lake City, Utah, to address various questions regarding access to property purchased by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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