Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World From the 1870s to the Present /

• Main Author: Knox, Zoe (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000
• Subjects: Social history.; Religion-History.; Civilization-History.; Social History.; History of Religion.; Cultural History.

This book examines the tensions between Jehovah's Witnesses and government authorities, civic organisations, established churches and the broader public generated by the Watch Tower Society's teachings. Witnesses originated in the 1870s as small, loose-knit groups calling themselves Bible...