Jehovah's Witnesses: Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement
- ISBN-10
- 113450151X
- ISBN-13
- 9781134501519
- Series
- Jehovah's Witnesses
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-11-12
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Andrew Holden
Description
This is the first major study of the enigmatic religious society. By examining the Jehovah's Witnesses' dramatic recent expansion, Andrew Holden reveals the dependency of their quasi-totalitarian movement on the physical and cultural resources have brought about the privatization of religion, the erosion of community, and the separation of 'fact' from faith.
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