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Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World - From the 1870s to the Present (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World - From the 1870s to the Present (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000
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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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