Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World: From the 1870s to the Present
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Making Witness History -- Structure -- Sources and Methodology -- Terminology -- Chapter 2: Watch Tower, Witnesses, and the World -- Departures from Christian Convention -- The Creation of Jehovah's...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan Limited
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000 Ser
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jehovah's Witnesses
/ Religious freedom
/ Politics
/ Geschichte 1870-
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Jehovah's Witnesses
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| Summary: | Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Making Witness History -- Structure -- Sources and Methodology -- Terminology -- Chapter 2: Watch Tower, Witnesses, and the World -- Departures from Christian Convention -- The Creation of Jehovah's Witnesses -- 'No Part of the World' -- The Theocracy: Oversight and Authority -- Lifestyle and Community -- Worldwide Expansion and Global Reach -- Chapter 3: Politics -- The State and Secular Authority -- Proscription in Australia During World War II -- Mass Displacement in Southern Africa -- Neutrality but Not Passivity -- Chapter 4: Ministry -- The Imperative to Minister -- Historical Development of Ministry -- First Amendment Freedoms and the Press -- Ministers or Draft Dodgers? -- Chapter 5: Blood -- Health and Medicine Before the Ban -- Theology, Practice, and Promotion of the Blood Doctrine -- Response of the British Medical Community -- Opposition to the Blood Doctrine -- Functions of the Blood Doctrine -- Chapter 6: Religion -- C. T. Russell and His Christian Contemporaries -- Redefining Religion Under Rutherford -- Rutherford's Anti-Catholicism -- Division, Discord, Decline: Christian Churches after World War II -- C. T. Russell, Zionist? -- Other Religious Traditions -- Chapter 7: Opposition -- Jehovah's Witnesses in the Mass Media -- Jehovah's Witnesses as the Cold War 'Other' -- Countering Witnesses -- Exporting the ACM: Global Resonances -- Pan-European Developments -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 1137396059 |