The Urantia Book’s Latin American reception

Record summary

The Urantia Book, first published in English in 1955, gained organized readers and translations in Latin America during the later twentieth century. It presents itself as a cosmological revelation delivered through celestial personalities and combines Christian, esoteric, and quasi-scientific language. Its regional reception is relevant for comparing apocryphal scripture, channelled authority, and claims of nonhuman communication with more localized apparition traditions. The existence of particular 1970s–1980s groups, translations, and publications must be established country by country rather than assumed from the movement’s global presence.