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Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World: From the 1870s to the Present: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000

Autor Zoe Knox
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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.


                
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349679416
ISBN-10: 1349679410
Pagini: 316
Ilustrații: XIV, 316 p. 8 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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. 

Notă biografică

Zoe Knox is Associate Professor of Modern Russian History at the University of Leicester, UK.

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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.

Caracteristici

Given a special mention of excellence in the senior scholar category for the Giuseppe Alberigo Award conferred by the European Academy of Religion Analyses the influence of Jehovah’s Witnesses from a transnational perspective in a variety of contexts Tackles previously un-discussed issues to present an innovative contribution to the field of Watch Tower studies