Jehovah's Witnesses Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement

Name: Jehovah's Witnesses Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement
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ISBN: 9780415266109

ISBN-10: 0415266106

ISBN-13: 9780415266109

Edition: 2002

Authors: Andrew Holden

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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 which have brought about the privatization of religion, the erosion of community and the separation of "fact" from supernatural faith. Asking vital questions about the ambivalent relationship of spiritual meaning to modern secular materialism,Jehova's Witnessesreconsiders the Witnesses' ascetic faith at once as an inverted form of pseudo-corporate "branding," and as an anti-modern quest for certainty in a hostile world of relativism and risk.

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Andrew Holden is a Lecturer in Sociology at the East Lancashire Institute of Higher Education and an Associate Researcher at the University of Lancaster.



Preface


Acknowledgements


The End is Nigh


The Jehovah's Witnesses in the Modern World


Finding a Home


Rational Means to Rational Ends


Returning to Eden


Inside, Outside


Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother


The Fear of Freedom


Conclusion


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index