The diaspora of fundamentalists mormons: LeBaron colony, Chihuahua

Abstract

This text explains the journey of the Mormon religious group known as LeBaron from its origin, its exodus, the arrival to the State of Chihuahua and its current constitution. With the reasoning thateach event is the result and cause of another, we try to explain how the movement of this group was developed through different countries, allowing us to observe the interactions that occurred amongst them and in the different geographies. The recovery of different versions of stories told by characters from the same community provides a greater diversity of points of view, which allows for a more precise explanation of the events that have affected this community. Due to the purpose of rebuilding, because the Mormon existence throughout its history is already built, is the historical reconstruction, a rearrangement and analysis of the various factors that give priority to their education, according to principles that surged from their existential but focused journey on their life in Chihuahua, knowing that the interaction with the environment that surrounds them gives a specific meaning to this community, regarding traits as basic as belief system, family, function of the school, value of the economy, solidarity, the monogamous or extended family, but at the same time has its concrete conditions gradually forged in the cultural environment of the municipalities of Nuevo Casas Grandes and Galeana, above all.