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Show EDISON There is a long tradition among Hispanic Catholics of assembling home altars that serve as reminders of religious belief and provide a focal point for daily worship. Mary Martinez's altar, assembled on top of her televisión set in her Magna home, is typical of those found in many Utah homes and businesses, and includes photographs, greeting cards and other items of personal significance. (GR:92) because of their affiliation with the LDS (Mormon) Church or became members after arriving in the state. Marriages between Mormon missionaries and Spanish-speaking converts add an important component to this community. Like the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church has provided a setting in which maintenance of Hispanic identity is encouraged through participation in ethnic arts. The first major group of Hispanic converts to Mormonism were among those who immigrated to Utah after the Mexican Revolution of 1910. By 1925, dressed in traditional clothing, members of Salt Lake's Spanish-speaking La Rama Mexicana congregation were regularly invited to perform traditional music and dance for other LDS wards and for community events. Such performances seem to have furnished a way for Anglo-Mormons to better understand Hispanic members while reinforcing cultural pride among Hispanics. Several decades later these early successes at sharing Hispanic culture and reinforcing Hispanic identity must have been remembered by church afiliación con la iglesia mormona o se hicieron mormones después de estar aquí. Los matrimonios entre ex-misioneros y conversos de habla hispana añaden un factor importante a la comunidad. Como en la iglesia católica, la mormona ha proveído un ambiente donde el preservar las tradiciones hispanas es alentado a través de la participación en las artes étnicas. El primer gran grupo de hispanos convertidos al mormonismo fue el que llegó después de la Revolución Mexicana. Para 1925, y vestidos en trajes típicos, los miembros de la Rama Mexicana eran invitados a interpretar canciones y bailes folklóricos en otras ramas mormonas y en otros eventos de la comunidad. Estas actuaciones parecen haber servido de guía para entender mejor a los miembros hispanos, a la vez que para reforzar el orgullo cultural entre los hispanos. Décadas más tarde, estos primeros logros de compartir la identidad hispana deben de haber sido recordados por los líderes de la iglesia, muchos de |