Secondary Sources about the History of the Church in Latin America

This section of the research guide includes a selected bibliography of articles, books, and other works that highlight the breadth of the history of the Church in Latin America.

Academic Articles

• Caplan, Aidan and Tristan Caplan. “Expulsion and Reconciliation with the Mexican Saints: The Third Convention, 1936–1946.” Journal of Mormon History 47, no. 2 (April 2021): 75-100.
• Charles, Carter. “Mormon Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: State of the Field as of 2018.” Mormon Studies Review, vol. 6 (January 2019): 17–24.
• Duffy, J. C. “The Use of ‘Lamanite’ in Official LDS Discourse.” Journal of Mormon History 34, no. 1 (2008): 118–167.
• Fox, Kiira and Tim B. Heaton. “Mormon Fertility in Latin America.” Review of Religious Research 55, no. 2 (June 2013): 275–296.
• Gooren, Henri. “Comparing Mormon and Adventist Growth Patterns in Latin America: The Chilean Case.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 46, no. 3 (2013): 45–77.
• Gooren, Henri. “Latter-day Saints Under Siege: The Unique Experience of Nicaraguan Mormons.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 40, no. 3 (2007): 134–155.
• Gooren, Henri. “The Dynamics of LDS Growth in Guatemala, 1948–1998.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38, no. 1 (1999): 59–71.
• Grover, Mark. "Execution in Mexico: The Deaths of Rafael Monroy and Vicente Morales.” BYU Studies 35, no. 3 (1996): 6–28.
• Grover, Mark. “Latin America and the Globalization of the LDS Church: From an American to an Americas Church.” In The Worldwide Church: Mormonism as a Global Religion. Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2016.
• Grover, Mark L. “The Mormon Priesthood Revelation and the Sao Paulo, Brazil Temple.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 23, no. 1 (1990): 39–53.
• Grover, Mark. “Religious Accommodation in the Land of Racial Democracy: Mormon Priesthood and Black Brazilians.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 17, no. 3 (October 1984): 22–34.
• Grover, Mark. “Sprechen Sie Portugiesisch? Nein: The German Beginnings of the Church in Brazil.” Journal of Mormon History 45, no. 2 (April 2019): 115–143.
• Knowlton, David. “Hands Raised Up: Corruption, Power, and Context in Bolivian Mormonism.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 40, no. 4 (2007): 47–70.
• Knowlton, David C. “Mormonism in Latin America: Towards the Twenty-first Century.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 29, no. 1 (1996): 159–176.
• Murphy, Thomas W. “Other Mormon Histories: Lamanite Subjectivity in Mexico.” Journal of Mormon History 26, no. 2 (2000): 179–214.
• Stover, Philip R. “The Exodus of 1912: A Huddle of Pros and Cons—Mormons Twice Dispossessed.” Journal of Mormon History 44, no. 3 (2018): 45–69.
• Talmage, Jeremy, and Clinton D. Christensen. “Black, White, or Brown? Racial Perceptions and the Priesthood Policy in Latin America.” Journal of Mormon History 44, no. 1 (2018): 119–145.
• Tullis, F. Lamond. “A Shepherd to Mexico’s Saints: Arwell L. Pierce and the Third Convention.” BYU Studies Quarterly 37, no. 1 (January 1997): 127–157.

Books/Theses/Dissertations

• Borde, Jean A. B. History of the Saints in Trinidad and Tobago. Valsayn, Trinidad: West Indies Mission, 1995.
• Bray, Justin R. and Reid L. Nielson, eds. Exploring Book of Mormon lands: The 1923 Latin American Travel Writings of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2014.
• Curbelo, Néstor Esteban. The History of Mormons in Argentina. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2009.
• Dormady, Jason H. and Jared M. Tamez, eds. Just South of Zion: The Mormons in Mexico and its Borderlands. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2015.
• Grover, Mark L. A Land of Promise and Prophecy: Elder A. Theodore Tuttle in South America, 1960–1965. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 2008.
• Grover, Mark. “Mormonism in Brazil: religion and dependency in Latin America.” Ph.D. diss,. Indiana University, 1985.
• Klein, Herberto Moroni. “Estandarte para as Nações: A Igreja de Jesus Cristo DosSantos Dos Últimos Dias na América do Sul (1925-1973).” Thesis, Rio Grande do Sul: Pontifícia Universidade Católica, 2003.
• Lima da Silva, Rubens. “Os Mórmons em Santa Catarina: Origens, Conflitos e Desenvolvimento.” Master’s Thesis, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2008.
• Lozano Herrera, Agricol. Historia del Mormonismo en Mexico. Mexico City: Editorial Zarahemla, 1984.
• Martins, Helvécio with Mark Grover. The autobiography of Elder Helvécio Martins. Salt Lake City, UT: Aspen Books, 1994.
• Meza Méndez, Humberto and Floyd LaMond Tullis. Pioneros Mormones en Mexico / Recopilacion por Humberto Meza Mendez.
• Peterson, John DeLon. “History of the Mormon missionary movement in South America to 1940.” Master’s Thesis, University of Utah, 1961.
• Pulido, Elisa Eastwood. The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878–1961. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• Romney, Thomas Cottam. The Mormon Colonies in Mexico. 1938. Reprint. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2005.
• Tullis, F. Lamond. Mormons in Mexico: The Dynamics of Faith and Culture. Mexico, El Museo de Historia del Mormonismo en México A.C., 1997.
• Tullis, F. Lamond. Martyrs in Mexico: A Mormon Story of Revolution and Redemption. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center with Deseret Book, 2018.
• Tullis, F. Lamond. Grass Roots in Mexico: Stories of Pioneering Latter-day Saints. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center with Deseret Book, 2021.
• Williams, Frederick Salem and Frederick G. Williams. From Acorn to Oak Tree: A Personal History of the Establishment and First Quarter Century Development of the South American Missions. Fullerton, California: Et Cetera Graphics, 1997.
• Witnessing the Hand of the Lord in the Dominican Republic (M272 W825 2009).