Watchtower Influences on Black Muslim Eschatology: An Exploratory Story
Black Muslim leaders appear to have been influenced in the early 1930s by eschatalogical teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Several details of doctrine are too similar to be coincidental. There is some evidence of direct contact between the two groups. It is possible that the cryptic ambigui...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[1970]
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Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 1970, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 321-325 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Leadership B Islam B Bible B Black Muslims B Jehovahs Witnesses B Eschatology B Ambiguity |
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| Summary: | Black Muslim leaders appear to have been influenced in the early 1930s by eschatalogical teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Several details of doctrine are too similar to be coincidental. There is some evidence of direct contact between the two groups. It is possible that the cryptic ambiguity of the Watchtower doctrines enhanced their appeal to the Black Muslims. |
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| ISSN: | 1468-5906 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1384578 |