Why Opposition?: An Exploration of Hostility Towards Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses have experienced opposition since the Watch Tower Society's inception, and the history of opposition is traced here. Initially, grounds for disapproval were doctrinal, but spanned out to controversies about "miracle wheat" and founder-leader Charles Taze Russe...

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Main Author: Chryssides, George D. 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [2021]
In: The journal of CESNUR
Year: 2021, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 16-38
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Russia / Korea / Jehovah's Witnesses / Animosity / Anti-cult movement
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AZ New religious movements
KBK Europe (East)
KBM Asia
KDH Christian sects
Further subjects:B Religious Minorities in Russia
B Joseph Franklin Rutherford
B Charles Taze Russell
B Jehovah's Witnesses
B Religious Minorities
B Counter-Cult Movement
B Religious Minorities in South Korea
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