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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Main Author: Maesen, William A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [1970]
In: Journal for the scientific study of religion
Year: 1970, Volume: 9, Issue: 4, Pages: 321-325
Further subjects:B Soul music
B Leadership
B Islam
B Bible
B Black Muslims
B Jehovahs Witnesses
B Eschatology
B Ambiguity
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