Review of Raymundo Gómez González and Sergio Pagaza Castillo, El Aguila Mormón O El Anarquista Cristiano: Plotino Constantino Rhodakanaty
Journal of Mormon History 25.2 (Fall 1999): 210-214
5 Pages Posted: 29 Oct 2013
Date Written: 1999
Abstract
With the publication of its first book, the Museum of Mormon History in Mexico is helping to initiate an era in which international Mormon history is produced and published in local languages by local people. Fernanco R. Gómez Páez, president of the museum, and Raymundo Gómez González, director of the museum, coauthor of this book, and an engineer, founded this independent museum to house the historical materials gathered by their aunt, Conseulo Gómez González, an influential early convert to Mormonism in Mexico. The publication of an intellectual biography of Plotino Constantino Rhodakanaty, the first member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Central Mexico, marks the expansion of their efforts from historical preservation to the production of local Mormon history. The title translated as "Mormon Eagle or Christian Anarchist" juxtaposes Rhodakanaty's prominent place in Mormon history with his significant role in Mexican intellectual history.
Keywords: Mormon, Mexico, museum, Plotino Constantion Rhodakanaty, intellectual history, anarchism
JEL Classification: Z10
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