Jehovah's Witnesses Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement

Name: Jehovah's Witnesses Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement
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ISBN: 9780585453149

ISBN-10: 0585453144

ISBN-13: 9780585453149

Edition: N/A

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 Witnesses" reconsiders 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.

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Publisher: Routledge
Binding: E-Book
Language: English

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xii
The End is Nigh	p. 1
The Jehovah's Witnesses in the Modern World	p. 17
Finding a Home	p. 42
Rational Means to Rational Ends	p. 58
Returning to Eden	p. 82
Inside, Outside	p. 103
Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother	p. 125
The Fear of Freedom	p. 150
Conclusion	p. 171
Notes	p. 176
Glossary	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 189
Index	p. 202
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