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Analyzing LDS Growth in Guatemala: Report from a Barrio

2000; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 33; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/45226688

1554-9631

Henri Gooren,

Migration and Labor Dynamics

A New World Religion?The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (usually called Mormon or LDS church) is having enormous success in most parts of the world.Growth is particularly impressive in Latin America.In 1971 there were only 217,500 LDS members on this continent, accounting for no more than seven percent of the church's total membership.2In late 1997, on the other hand, 3.4 million LDS members lived in Latin America, over one-third of the total LDS world membership.3The Mormon church in Latin America is currently strongest in Chile, Uruguay, Guatemala (and Central America as a whole), and the Andean countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.4Here, between one and three percent (Chile) of the population has been baptized into the Mormon church.The LDS church in Latin America had its highest average annual growth rates for 1995-97 in 1.A 1996 version of this paper was intended for publication in an anthology that was never published.