Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Theses and Dissertations 2016-03-01 "A Fine Field": Rio de Janeiro's Journey to Become a Center of Strength for the LDS Church Garret S. Shields Brigham Young University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd Part of the Religion Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Shields, Garret S., ""A Fine Field": Rio de Janeiro's Journey to Become a Center of Strength for the LDS Church" (2016). Theses and Dissertations. 6213. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6213 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. “A Fine Field”: Rio de Janeiro’s Journey to Become a Center of Strength for the LDS Church Garret S. Shields A thesis submitted to the faculty of Brigham Young University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Alonzo L. Gaskill, Chair Mark L. Grover Jared Ludlow Department of Religious Education Brigham Young University March 2016 Copyright © 2016 Garret S. Shields All Rights Reserved ABSTRACT “A Fine Field”: Rio de Janeiro’s Journey to Become a Center of Strength for the LDS Church Garret S. Shields Department of Religious Education, BYU Master of Arts The purpose of this work is to chronicle the growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from its earliest beginnings in the late 1930s to the events surrounding the revelation on the priesthood in 1978.