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Journal Article

English

Murphy, Thomas W.

'Stronger than Ever' : Remnants of the Third Convention

Journal of Latter-day Saint History

10

1, 8-11

1998

In the mid-1930s Mexican Mormons held a series of conventions to express dissatisfaction with estrangement from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. After the Third Convention many Latter-day Saints in the Central Valley of Mexico separated from the LDS Church and remained independent for nearly a decade. Historians had previously reported that a schism within the Third Convention led by the author Margariot Bautista had fizzled and nearly disappeared. The author reports his surprising ethnographic discovery during the summer of 1996 of a thriving community of 700 followers of Bautista in Ozumba, Mexico calling themselves El Reino de Dios en su Plenitud.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2203606

Ozumba, Mexico
Mexico, 'Third Convention'
Schisms
Cultural anthropology

Expulsion and Reconciliation with the Mexican Saints : The Third Convention, 1936–1946
Persisting in a Secular Environment : Mormonism in the Low Countries
The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico