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Author : Edmond C. Gruss
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1594671311
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)
Download or read book The Four Presidents of the Watch Tower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) written by Edmond C. Gruss and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870541
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of Jehovah's Witnesses written by George D. Chryssides and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating from a small group of Bible students led by Charles Taze Russell in the 1870s, the Watch Tower Society grew into an international society. After Russell's death in 1916, Franklin Rutherford was named his successor and gave the society a new name: 'Jehovah's Witnesses.' The A to Z of Jehovah's Witnesses shows how World War I & II influenced Watch Tower attitudes to civil government, armed conflict, and medical innovations like blood transfusion, as well as to mainstream churches and the development of Jehovah's Witnesses' door-to-door evangelism. The theme of prophecy, the doctrine of the 144,000, end-time calculations, Armageddon, and the Witnesses' denial of hell are all considered in The A to Z of Jehovah's Witnesses, which contains a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and 250 cross-referenced dictionary entries relating to key people and concepts.
Author : Zoe Knox
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137396059
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World written by Zoe Knox and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the historic tensions between Jehovah’s Witnesses and government authorities, civic organisations, established churches and the broader public. Witnesses originated in the 1870s as small, loose-knit groups calling themselves Bible Students. Today, there are some eight million Witnesses worldwide, all actively engaged in evangelism under the direction of the Watch Tower Society. The author analyses issues that have brought them global visibility and even notoriety, including political neutrality, public ministry, blood transfusion, and anti-ecumenism. It also explores anti-Witness discourse, from media portrayals of the community as marginal and exotic to the anti-cult movement. Focusing on varied historical, ideological and national contexts, the book argues that Witnesses have had a defining influence on conceptions of religious tolerance in the modern world.
Author : Andrew Holden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113450151X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Jehovah's Witnesses written by Andrew Holden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of the enigmatic religious society. By examining the Jehovah's Witnesses' dramatic recent expansion, Andrew Holden reveals the dependency of their quasi-totalitarian movement on the physical and cultural resources have brought about the privatization of religion, the erosion of community, and the separation of 'fact' from faith.
Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538119528
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses written by George D. Chryssides and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating from a small group of Bible students who met under Charles Taze Russell’s leadership and grew into an international Society, to which the second leader Joseph Franklin Rutherford and gave the name ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’. Two World Wars shaped Watch Tower attitudes to civil government, armed conflict, and medical innovations such as blood transfusion, as well as to mainstream churches. The twenty-first century has seen some important changes in the Watch Tower organization, and coverage is given to changes in organizational structure, its use of the World Wide Web, and its major relocation from Brooklyn to Warwick. This updated second edition of Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key concepts, themes, and people relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Jehovah's Witnesses.
Author : Ines W. Jindra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900426650X
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book A New Model of Religious Conversion written by Ines W. Jindra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the analysis of 52 conversion narratives to various religious groups, A New Model of Religious Conversion utilizes case studies for comparison of converts' backgrounds, network influence, and conversion narratives. The author convincingly illustrates a "fit" between the converts' background and the religion they convert to, such as between disorganized family backgrounds and highly structured religions. Conversely, those from highly structured backgrounds often convert to more "open" groups. The book also makes it clear that not all conversions are influenced by networks or align themselves with a social constructivist view of a conversion as an "account." Taking converts' trajectories seriously, the author makes a strong case for the application of biographical sociology to the study of conversion and (American) sociology overall.
Author : George D. Chryssides
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351925423
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Jehovah's Witnesses written by George D. Chryssides and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its origins in nineteenth century Adventism until the present day, the Watch Tower Society has become one of the best known but least understood new religious movements. Resisting the tendency to define the movement in terms of the negative, this volume offers an empathetic account of the Jehovah's Witnesses, without defending or seeking to refute their beliefs. George Chryssides critically examines the historical and theological bases of the organization's teachings and practices, and discusses the changes and continuities which have defined it. The book provides a valuable resource for scholars of new religious movements and contemporary religion.
Author : Edmond C. Gruss
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 193123230X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (312 download)
Download or read book Jehovah's Witnesses written by Edmond C. Gruss and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Bergman
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jehovah's Witnesses and Kindred Groups written by Jerry Bergman and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1984 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Miller
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791423974
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (239 download)
Download or read book America's Alternative Religions written by Timothy Miller and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a source of reliable information on the most important new and alternative religions covering history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. It includes a chapter on the Branch Davidians.
Author : Detlef Garbe
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299207908
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Between Resistance and Martyrdom written by Detlef Garbe and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Refusing to perform military service under Germany's Third Reich due to their fundamental belief in nonviolence, Jehovah's Witnesses caught the attention of the highest authorities in the justice system, the police, and the SS. Although persecuted and banned from practicing their beliefs by the Nazi regime in 1933, the Jehovah's Witnesses' unified resistance has been largely forgotten. Basing his work on a wide range of sources, including documents and archives previously unconsidered as well as critical analyses of Jehovah's Witness literature and survivor interviews, Detlef Garbe chronicles the Nazis' relentless persecution of this religious group before and during World War II. The English-language edition of this important work features a series of original photographs not published in the German edition. These striking images bring a sense of individual humanity to this story and help readers comprehend the reality of the events documented. Between Resistance and Martyrdom is an indispensable work that will introduce an English-speaking audience to this important but lesser-known part of Holocaust history.
Author : Elmer J. O'Brien
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810863138
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era written by Elmer J. O'Brien and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era: American Christianity and Religious Communication 1620-2000: An Annotated Bibliography contains over 2,400 annotations of books, book chapters, essays, periodical articles, and selected dissertations dealing with the various means and technologies of Christian communication used by clergy, churches, denominations, benevolent associations, printers, booksellers, publishing houses, and individuals and movements in their efforts to disseminate news, knowledge, and information about religious beliefs and life in the United States from colonial times to the present. Providing access to the critical and interpretive literature about religious communication is significant and plays a central role in the recent trend in American historiography toward cultural history, particularly as it relates to numerous collateral disciplines: sociology, anthropology, education, speech, music, literary studies, art history, and technology. The book documents communication shifts, from oral history to print to electronic and visual media, and their adaptive uses in communication networks developed over the nation's history. This reference brings bibliographic control to a large and diverse literature not previously identified or indexed.
Author : Sarah Barringer Gordon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674046542
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (465 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of the Law written by Sarah Barringer Gordon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores the interaction between the Constitution and religious practices in public life. School prayer, religion in prison, and same-sex marriages have created controversies challenging the Supreme Court and the nature of laws regarding religion. The author addresses such issues to trace the relationship between church and state.
Author : Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Publisher : Facsimiles-Garl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jehovah's Witnesses I written by Joseph Franklin Rutherford and published by Facsimiles-Garl. This book was released on 1990 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Astrid Marie Holand
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111429261
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Time in Our Times written by Astrid Marie Holand and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-10-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Melvin Dotson Curry
Publisher : Garland Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jehovah's Witnesses written by Melvin Dotson Curry and published by Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. James Penton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442616059
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Apocalypse Delayed written by M. James Penton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost thirty years, M. James Penton's Apocalypse Delayed has been the definitive scholarly study of the Jehovah's Witnesses. As a former member of the sect, Penton offers a comprehensive overview of this significant religious movement.
