Museum of Mormon History in Mexico
Reviews of F. LaMond Tullis. Los Mormones en México. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1997), Fernando R. Gómez Páez. “The States of México and Morelos," "Margarito Bautista Valencia,," "Francisco Narciso Sandoval," and "The Third Convention," Journal of Mormon History 28.1 (Spring): 280-289.
10 Pages Posted: 29 Oct 2013
Date Written: 2002
Abstract
With two new publications, the Museum of Mormon History in Mexico has firmly established itself as a leading venue for the production of Mormon history in Mexico. The Spanish translation and English commentary on Part 1 of F. LaMond Tulllis's Mormons in Mexico is a significant contribution to both Spanish and English readers. This text, published through Deseret Book, makes a valuable resource available to Spanish speakers. It also offers an impressive correction of documentary errors in Tullis's interpretation and historical data. A second significant contribution to the literature on the same subject is a series of four articles available in Spanish or English by Fernando R. Gómez Páez (museum president). Read side by side, the translation of Tullis's book and this new selection of articles by the museum's president will provide a worthwhile and balanced introduction to Mexican Mormon history. Readers will recognize that Mormon history in Mexico extends well beyond the colonies in Chihuahua and Sonora. The most interesting stories may very well come from central Mexico. Mexican Mormons now have a significant voice in the writing of their own Mormon histories.
Keywords: Mormon, Mexico, Third Convention, LDS, Margarito Bautista Valencia, Francisco Narciso Sandoval, Lamanite
JEL Classification: Z10
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