Colonia Juarez

Colonia Juarez

Author: Lavon Brown Whetten

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1449089356

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Appendices: Leaders with colony ties -- Dedicatory prayer Colonia Juarez Temple -- Stake presidents -- Colonia Juarez Ward Bishops.


Colonia Juarez

Colonia Juarez

Author: Lavon Brown Whetten

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1449089348

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Appendices: Leaders with colony ties -- Dedicatory prayer Colonia Juarez Temple -- Stake presidents -- Colonia Juarez Ward Bishops.


The Colonia Juárez Temple

The Colonia Juárez Temple

Author: Virginia Hatch Romney

Publisher: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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The story of the LDS Colonia Juarez Mexico Temple and the inspiration of President Hinckley to build smaller temples.


Desert Patriarchy

Desert Patriarchy

Author: Janet Bennion

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2004-05-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0816545588

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On the high desert plateau of northern Mexico, outsiders have taken refuge from the secular world. Here three Anglo communities of Mormons and Mennonites have ordered their lives around male supremacy, rigid religious duty, and a rejection of modern technology and culture. In so doing, they have successfully adapted to this harsh desert environment. Janet Bennion has lived and worked among these people, and in this book she introduces a new paradigm—"desert patriarchy"—to explain their way of life. This perspective sheds light not only on these particular communities but also on the role of the desert environment in the development and maintenance of fundamentalist ideology in other parts of the United States and around the globe. Making new connections between the arid environment, opposition to technology, and gender ideology, Bennion shows that it is the interplay of the desert and the unique social traditions and gender dynamics embedded in Anglo patriarchal fundamentalism that accounts for the successful longevity of the Mexican colonies. Her model defines the process by which male supremacy, female autonomous networking, and religious fundamentalism all facilitate successful adaptation to the environment. More than a theoretical analysis, Desert Patriarchy provides an intimate glimpse into the daily lives of these people, showing how they have taken refuge in the desert to escape religious persecution, the forced secular education of their children, and economic and political marginalization. It particularly sheds light on the ironic autonomy of women within a patriarchal system, showing how fundamentalist women in Chihuahua are finding numerous creative ways to access power and satisfaction in a society structured to subordinate and even degrade them. Desert Patriarchy richly expands the literature on nontraditional religious movements as it enhances our understanding of how environment can shape society. It offers unique insights into women's status in patriarchal communities and provides a new way of looking at similar communities worldwide.


Downtown Juárez

Downtown Juárez

Author: Howard Campbell

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2021-11-09

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1477323880

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At least 200,000 people have died in Mexico’s so-called drug war, and the worst suffering has been in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. How did it get so bad? After three decades studying that question, Howard Campbell doesn’t believe there is any one answer. Misguided policies, corruption, criminality, and the borderland economy are all factors. But none explains how violence in downtown Juárez has become heartbreakingly “normal.” A rigorous yet moving account, Downtown Juárez is informed by the sex workers, addicts, hustlers, bar owners, human smugglers, migrants, and down-and-out workers struggling to survive in an underworld where horrifying abuses have come to seem like the natural way of things. Even as Juárez’s elite northeast section thrives on the profits of multinational corporations, and law-abiding citizens across the city mobilize against crime and official malfeasance, downtown’s cantinas, barrios, and brothels are tyrannized by misery. Campbell’s is a chilling perspective, suggesting that, over time, violent acts feed off each other, losing their connection to any specific cause. Downtown Juárez documents this banality of evil—and confronts it—with the stories of those most affected.


The Mormon Colonies in Mexico

The Mormon Colonies in Mexico

Author: Thomas Cottam Romney

Publisher: University of Utah Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0874808383

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Originally published in 1938, this important document chronicles a little-known chapter in Mormon history: the polygamous members in the 1880s who sought refuge from the U.S. federal marshals in Mexico.


Look Upstream

Look Upstream

Author: Joseph Barnard Romney

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1477248951

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This is a Horatio Alger story in two parts. The first part begins in 1884 when Junius Romney with his family moved to Colonia Juarez, Mexico. It continues to the summer of 1912 when he abruptly left the Mormon Colonies in Mexico to live in the United States. The second part begins in El Paso, Texas and continues until Junius died in 1971, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In each part he and his family began penniless and rose to a situation where he had a growing family, a comfortable home, and a good living. He made his way principally because he was determined that he would always succeed. He is a model of success in family, friends, church, business, and determination. The title of this book recognizes his determination -- his success in swimming upstream in the river of life.