The A to Z of Jehovah's Witnesses
The A to Z of Jehovah's Witnesses

Author: George D. Chryssides

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2009-10-12

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0810870541

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Originating from a small group of Bible students led by Charles Taze Russell in the 1870s, the Watch Tower Society grew into an international society. After Russell's death in 1916, Franklin Rutherford was named his successor and gave the society a new name: 'Jehovah's Witnesses.' The A to Z of Jehovah's Witnesses shows how World War I & II influenced Watch Tower attitudes to civil government, armed conflict, and medical innovations like blood transfusion, as well as to mainstream churches and the development of Jehovah's Witnesses' door-to-door evangelism. The theme of prophecy, the doctrine of the 144,000, end-time calculations, Armageddon, and the Witnesses' denial of hell are all considered in The A to Z of Jehovah's Witnesses, which contains a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and 250 cross-referenced dictionary entries relating to key people and concepts.

The A to Z of Jehovah's Witnesses
The A to Z of Jehovah's Witnesses

Author: George D. Chryssides

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2009-09-15

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0810868911

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This volume shows how World Wars I & II influenced Watch Tower attitudes to civil government, armed conflict, and medical innovations like blood transfusion, as well as to mainstream churches and the development of Jehovah's Witnesses' door-to-door evangelism. The theme of prophecy, the doctrine of the 144,000, end-time calculations, Armageddon, and the Witnesses' denial of hell are all considered in this work, which contains a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and 250 cross-referenced dictionary entries relating to key people and concepts. Originating from a small group of Bible students led by Charles Taze Russell in the 1870s, the Watch Tower Society grew into an international society. After Russell's death in 1916, Franklin Rutherford was named his successor and gave the society a new name: 'Jehovah's Witnesses.'

Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses
Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses

Author: George D. Chryssides

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1538119528

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Originating from a small group of Bible students who met under Charles Taze Russell’s leadership and grew into an international Society, to which the second leader Joseph Franklin Rutherford and gave the name ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’. Two World Wars shaped Watch Tower attitudes to civil government, armed conflict, and medical innovations such as blood transfusion, as well as to mainstream churches. The twenty-first century has seen some important changes in the Watch Tower organization, and coverage is given to changes in organizational structure, its use of the World Wide Web, and its major relocation from Brooklyn to Warwick. This updated second edition of Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on key concepts, themes, and people relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Jehovah's Witnesses.

Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses

Author: Marley Cole

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0429670311

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This book, first published in 1956, is the first authoritative, comprehensive account of the worldwide activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It traces their origins and development, and a special section covers the founding, organization and development of the movement in Great Britain.

Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World

Author: Zoe Knox

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-01-29

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1137396059

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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.

A People for His Name
A People for His Name

Author: Tony Wills

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007-02

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1430301007

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A history of The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) from their origins in the 1870s up to the mid-1960s. Long out-of-print, now in a second edition. This title was originally published using the pen name "Timothy White."

Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses

Author: George D. Chryssides

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1351925423

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From its origins in nineteenth century Adventism until the present day, the Watch Tower Society has become one of the best known but least understood new religious movements. Resisting the tendency to define the movement in terms of the negative, this volume offers an empathetic account of the Jehovah's Witnesses, without defending or seeking to refute their beliefs. George Chryssides critically examines the historical and theological bases of the organization's teachings and practices, and discusses the changes and continuities which have defined it. The book provides a valuable resource for scholars of new religious movements and contemporary religion.

Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses

Author: Robert M. Bowman

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0310704111

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This volume of the Zondervan Guide to Cults and Religious Movements sheds new light on the intrigue of the Jehovah's Witness movement.

The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses
The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses

Author: Heather Denise Harden Botting

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1984-01-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780802065452

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Discusses the history and religious doctrines of the Jehovah's Witnesses and examines the parallels between the religion and George Orwell's novel, 1984