Item Detail
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27826
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English
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Tzotzil-Speaking Mormon Maya in Chiapas, Mexico
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Journal of Mormon History
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April 2017
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43
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2
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Mormon History Association
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189-216
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[2018 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best International Article Award]
For Spanish speakers, Mormonism arrived in Mexico in 1875, where it now enjoys a membership of over one million. In the early 1980s, over a hundred years later, it took root among a subnationality of Mexico. More than eight hundred Tzotzil-speaking Mayan Mormons live in a few of the towns, villages, isolated hamlets, and family settlements in the southern mountains around San Cristóbal de las Casas. [From the text]