Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World : From the 1870s to the Present / by Zoe Knox.
Knox, Zoe. author.
2018
BX8526
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Title Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World : From the 1870s to the Present / by Zoe Knox.
Author Knox, Zoe. author.
ISBN 9781137396051 (electronic book)
1137396059 (electronic book)
1137396040
9781137396044
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39605-1
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 316 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-39605-1 doi
Call Number BX8526
Dewey Decimal Classification 289.9/2
900
Summary This book examines the tensions between Jehovah's Witnesses and government authorities, civic organisations, established churches and the broader public generated by the Watch Tower Society's teachings. 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. 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 campaigns, 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.
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Series Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9781137396044
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Watch Tower, Witnesses and the World
Chapter 3: Politics
Chapter 4: Ministry
Chapter 5: Blood- Chapter 6: Religion
Chapter 7: Opposition
Chapter 8: Conclusion. .

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