About this title: Jehovah's Witnesses: Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement is the first major ethnographic study of this enigmatic religious society. Through rigorously investigated case histories based upon the real-life experiences of converts, believers and defectors, it describes how the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society seek to achieve conformity in devotees, and to construct meaningful religious identities in a world whose excesses it vehemently reviles. Examining the Jehovah's Witnesses' dramatic expansion over the last 130 years, Andrew Holden reveals the dependency of this quasi ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2002-02-22
ISBN-13:9780415266109ISBN:0415266106
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2002-02-22
ISBN-13:9780415266109ISBN:0415266106
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge, Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415266093ISBN:0415266092
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415266109ISBN:0415266106
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. List of plates preface acknowledgements 1. the end is nigh 2. the jehovah's witnesses in the modern world 3. finding a home 4. rational means to rational ends 5. returning to eden 6. inside, outside 7. honour thy father and they mother 8. the fear of freedom 9. conclusion endnotes glossary bibliographythis major study reveals the dependency of this movement on the physical and cultural resources which have caused the privatisation of religion, the ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415266093ISBN:0415266092
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis(Routledge)
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415266093ISBN:0415266092
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) list of plates preface acknowledgements 1. the end is nigh 2. the jehovah's witnesses in the modern world 3. finding a home 4. rational means to rational ends 5. returning to eden 6. inside, outside 7. honour thy father and they mother 8. the fear of freedom 9. conclusion endnotes glossary bibliographythis major study reveals the dependency of this movement on the physical and cultural ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415266093ISBN:0415266092
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 224 pages. This book is printed on demand (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (224 pages) this major study reveals the dependency of this movement on the physical and cultural resources which have caused the privatisation of religion, the erosion of community, the separation of 'fact' from supernatural faith and their expansion. (Hardback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415266109ISBN:0415266106
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 2002-02-22
ISBN-13:9780415266109ISBN:0415266106
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780415266093ISBN:0415266092
Description: New. This is the first major study of this enigmatic religious society. By examining the Jehovah's Witnesses' dramatic recent expansion, Andrew Holden reveals the dependency of this quasi-totalitarian movement on the very physical and cultural resources w... read more
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