David Clark Knowlton

DAVID CLARK KNOWLTON, associate professor of anthropology at Utah Valley State College, specializes in the anthropology of religion in Latin America. He presented an earlier version of this paper at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2005, and at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City, August 2005. Portions of the research for this paper were funded by a Presidential Faculty Fellowship, the office of Vice President Brad Cook, the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and the Department of Behavioral Sciences, all at Utah Valley State College.

Thoughts on Mormonism in Latin America

Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 2

Over the last quarter century, the Church has experienced tremendous growth in Latin America and elsewhere in the so-called Third World, a relatively sudden surge that has received little scholarly attention (Grover n.d.). In the…

Mormonism in Latin America: Towards the Twenty-first Century

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 1

From the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magellan the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now taking part in a revolution that is radically transforming Latin America. As a result, the church…

The Glory of God? Education and Orthodoxy in Mormonism

Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 1

I begin with a paradox. Sociologists of religion have found that religious orthodoxy tends to decline with educational attainment. However, among Mormons religiosity actually tends to increase with education. This is paradoxical because Mormonism apparently…

Missionaries, Missions, Converts, Cultures | Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd, Mormon Passage: A Missionary Chronicle

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 1

To social scientists, missionaries are a great unknown. Perhaps the most important agents of social change around the globe, they have competed with scholars whose goal is to understand and appreciate people rather than to…

How Many Members Are There Really? Two Censuses and the Meaning of LDS Membership in Chile and Mexico

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 2

On Reading a Blank Page

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 1

Once upon July

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 2

Hands Raised Up: Corruption, Power, and Context in Bolivian Mormonism

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 4