Jehovah S Witnesses In Europe
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Jehovah S Witnesses In Europe
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Author : Gerhard Besier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-18
Jehovah S Witnesses In Europe written by Gerhard Besier and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-18 with History categories.
The history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe has always been one of persecution. This third volume documents this history, turning eastward. For the first time, the circumstances of a religious minority under different political systems can be compared across the continent. The studies gathered here provide insight into the methods of repression used by governments and mainstream churches, the survival strategies of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and their various experiences under Eastern European dictatorships. The initially cordial relationship with Jehovah’s Witnesses that developed after 1990 has steadily reverted to religious discrimination, culminating in Russia’s renewed ban of Jehovah’s Witnesses in 2017 and the confiscation of their properties. By violating the universal human right of religious freedom, the same conditions that prevailed in the Soviet era have now returned to “modern” Russia: With severest discrimination and abusing jurisdictional procedures to reach their political aspirations, the State tries to crush a religious community. Against this background, it is all the more important not to turn a blind eye to the situation of religious minorities in Eastern Europe, but instead to take an honest public stance against it.
Jehovah S Witnesses In Europe
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Author : Gerhard Besier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-08-17
Jehovah S Witnesses In Europe written by Gerhard Besier and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-17 with Religion categories.
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. How Jehovah’s Witnesses found their way in these countries has depended upon the way this missionary association was treated by the majority of the non-Witness population, the government and established churches. In this respect, the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe is also a history of the social constitution of these countries and their willingness to accept and integrate religious minorities. Jehovah’s Witnesses faced suppression and persecution not only in dictatorships, but also in some democratic states. In other countries, however, they developed in relative freedom. How the different situations in the various national societies affected the religious association and what challenges Jehovah’s Witnesses had to overcome – and still do in part even until our day – is the theme of this history volume.
Jehovah S Witnesses In Europe
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Author : Gerhard Besier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Jehovah S Witnesses In Europe written by Gerhard Besier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Jehovah's Witnesses categories.
Jehovah S Witnesses And The Secular World
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Author : Zoe Knox
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-29
Jehovah S Witnesses And The Secular World written by Zoe Knox and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-29 with History categories.
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.
Jehovah S Witnesses In Europe
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Author : Gerhard Besier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-02-01
Jehovah S Witnesses In Europe written by Gerhard Besier and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-01 with Political Science categories.
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. How Jehovah’s Witnesses found their way in these countries has depended upon the way this missionary association was treated by the majority of the non-Witness population, the government and established churches. In this respect, the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe is also a history of the social constitution of these countries and their willingness to accept and integrate religious minorities. Jehovah’s Witnesses faced suppression and persecution not only in dictatorships, but also in some democratic states. In other countries, however, they developed in relative freedom. How the different situations in the various national societies affected the religious association and what challenges Jehovah’s Witnesses had to overcome – and still do in part even until our day – is the theme of this history volume.
The Governing Body Politic
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Author : Firpo Carr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
The Governing Body Politic written by Firpo Carr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Reverend Dr. Firpo Carr was baptized as one of Jehovah''s Witnesses (JhW) on September 17, 1966, 12 years to the day after he was born. His mother was pregnant with him when she was baptized on January 16, 1954. For reasons that have yet to be explained, he was disfellowshipped in 2008. Still, his growing academic interest in JhW persisted. He acquired his PhD in 2018 after defending his dissertation, "Exploring Surgeons'' Attitudes and Behaviors Toward the Bloodless Policy and Emergency Treatment of Jehovah''s Witnesses Relative to Patient-Centered Care and Evidence-Based Medicine: A Multiple Case Study." Shortly thereafter, he attended seminary and earned a Master of Arts in Urban Ministry (plus Master of Arts in Management) and has taught comparative religion for nearly 30 years. He has completed grant-funded research titled "Determining the Effect of Educational Intervention on Surgeons'' Mental Anxiety When Faced With Emergency Non-Blood Treatment of Jehovah''s Witnesses." The instrument he devised for this study is "Mental Anxiety Surgeons'' Test (MAST)®." He has visited (and lodged) at branch offices of Jehovah''s Witnesses throughout Europe (e.g., France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Finland) and worked at the branch offices in Germany and Switzerland after meeting and dining with the branch committee coordinators and their wives. He also traveled to Cuba in 2002, where he appeared on national television at the order of Fidel Castro. He elected not to personally meet with Carr, the "JhW." Carr visited the Cuban branch office and met with the branch committee coordinator. He has traveled to over 80 countries. and after having served at the World Headquarters (Brooklyn) as a temporary Bethelite, the Governing Body selected Carr to serve as an International Servant at the branch office in Guyana, South America (1987). The Governing Body (and the Vatican) studies his writings. While visiting Brooklyn Bethel in 1980 (during his IBM training as a Customer Engineer in Chicago), Carr was recruited to meet with representatives of the computer department to help settle the issue of investing in technology. He explained that they''d have no choice. The Governing Body needed to embrace the coming technological revolution. The seed was planted for JW.org. Relatedly, Carr was a field writer for the Writing Committee of the Governing Body, having written the articles "Artificial Intelligence: Is It Intelligent" (Awake! 7-8-88) and "A Library that Fits on Your Desk" (Awake! 8-8-89), On another visit, after having met with Governing Body representatives regarding his book, The Divine Name Controversy (Vol. 1), Carr was asked to meet with an ailing Fredrick W. Franz, a Governing Body member and then president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, in his Bethel room next to the infirmary. Carolyn R. Wah is Associate General Counsel for the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. She is part of the Legal Department at the World Headquarters of Jehovah''s Witnesses in Warwick, New York. In the peer-reviewed journal, Review of Religious Research (2001, Volume 43:2) she wrote the article, "An Introduction of Research and Analysis of Jehovah''s Witnesses: A View from the Watchtower." In it she referenced "A History of Jehovah''s Witnesses from a Black American Perspective as well as Search for the Sacred Name, written by Firpo W. Carr, Ph.D." (p. 173). Dr. Carr co-authored the article "Jehovah''s Witnesses" in the peer-reviewed two-volume set, African American Religious Cultures (2009), in which his books A History of Jehovah''s Witnesses: From a Black American Perspective (1993) and The African American Enigma--A Contemporary Study, Vol. 1 (2001) are listed in the "Selected Bibliography." In sum, Dr. Carr is eminently qualified to write The Governing Body Politic.
Dissent On The Margins
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Author : Emily B. Baran
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-03
Dissent On The Margins written by Emily B. Baran and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03 with History categories.
Emily B. Baran offers a gripping history of how a small, American-based religious community, the Jehovah's Witnesses, found its way into the Soviet Union after World War II, survived decades of brutal persecution, and emerged as one of the region's fastest growing religions after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. In telling the story of this often misunderstood faith, Baran explores the shifting boundaries of religious dissent, non-conformity, and human rights in the Soviet Union and its successor states. Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses are a fascinating case study of dissent beyond urban, intellectual nonconformists. Witnesses, who were generally rural, poorly educated, and utterly marginalized from society, resisted state pressure to conform. They instead constructed alternative communities based on adherence to religious principles established by the Witnesses' international center in Brooklyn, New York. The Soviet state considered Witnesses to be the most reactionary of all underground religious movements, and used extraordinary measures to try to eliminate this threat. Yet Witnesses survived, while the Soviet system did not. After 1991, they faced continuing challenges to their right to practice their faith in post-Soviet states, as these states struggled to reconcile the proper limits on freedom of conscience with European norms and domestic concerns. Dissent on the Margins provides a new and important perspective on one of America's most understudied religious movements.
Uk Healthcare Policy Impacts On Jehovah S Witnesses
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Author : Cometan
language : en
Publisher: Astronist Institution
Release Date : 2019-12-20
Uk Healthcare Policy Impacts On Jehovah S Witnesses written by Cometan and has been published by Astronist Institution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-20 with Religion categories.
Cometan explores the impacts faced by Jehovah's Witnesses in the UK healthcare system as a result of their opposition to blood transfusions on religious grounds.
The Deterioration Of Religious Liberty In Europe
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Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Deterioration Of Religious Liberty In Europe written by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Freedom of religion categories.
Persecution And Resistance Of Jehovah S Witnesses During The Nazi Regime 1933 1945
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Author : Hans Hesse
language : en
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Release Date : 2001
Persecution And Resistance Of Jehovah S Witnesses During The Nazi Regime 1933 1945 written by Hans Hesse and has been published by Campus Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
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