Just South of Zion : The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands

Mormons first came to Mexico as soldiers during the Mexican-American War and later as missionaries, refugees, and settlers. Just South of Zion assembles new scholarship on the first century of Mormon history in Mexico, from 1847 to 1947. The essays cover topics such as polygamy, colonization, the role of women in Mormon local worship, indigenous intellectuals, Mormon transnational identity, and the role of violence and masculinity in Mormon identity. Representing a broad variety of scholarship from Mexican, US, and Mormon historical studies, the volume will be recognized as a useful survey of religious pluralism in Mexico. Unlike earlier books on the subject, it does not include religious testimony or confession, offering historians a chance to reconsider the significance of Mexico's Mormon experience. A glossary of LDS terminology makes the book especially useful for students and readers new to the topic. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Mormons in Mexico / Jason H. Dormady 1: The 1910 Mexican Revolution and the Rise and Demise of Mormon Polygamy in Mexico / Barbara Jones Brown 2: Mormon Colonists in the Mexican Civil Registration: A Case Study in Transnational Immigrant Identity / George Ryskamp 3: Plotino C. Rhodakanaty: Mormonism’s Greek Austrian Mexican Socialist / Bill Smith and Jared M. Tamez 4: “Our Faithful Sisters”: Mormon Worship and the Establishment of the Relief Society in the Mexican Mission, 1901–1903 / Jared M. Tamez 5: Solving Schism in Nepantla: The Third Convention Returns to the LDS Fold / Elisa Pulido 6: Queso y gusanos: The Cosmos of Indigenous Mormon Intellectual Margarito Bautista / Stuart Parker 7: Calls to War, Calls to Peace: Mormons among New Mexicans in 1880s Arizona / Daniel Herman 8: Colonia Díaz and the Railroad That Almost Was: The Deming, Sierra Madre and Pacific, 1887–1896 / Brandon Morgan Afterword: Porfirian Saints or Latter-day Revolutionaries? Mormonism in Modern Mexico / Matthew Butler Glossary of Terms Related to Mormonism or Mexican Mormonism Contributors Index Back Cover Mormons first came to Mexico as soldiers during the Mexican-American War and later as missionaries, refugees, and settlers. Just South of Zion assembles new scholarship on the first century of Mormon history in Mexico, from 1847 to 1947. Representing a broad variety of scholarship from Mexican, US, and Mormon historical studies, the volume offers a survey of religious pluralism in Mexico.