Titlebook: Jehovah‘s Witnesses and the Secular World; From the 1870s to th Zoe Knox Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Wat

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Religion,aders at public events and was open to dialogue and debate with clergy from other Christian groups, regarding them as capable of achieving salvation. His position hardened towards the end of his life, however, and the Bible Students came to regard themselves as the exclusive bearers of ‘the Truth’.

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Opposition, to present Witnesses as deviant, both religiously and socially. It examines how popular understandings of the Watch Tower organisation have been shaped by co-ordinated campaigns against Witnesses and by media representations of them as a deviant, marginal community. Witnesses were cast as the enemy

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Conclusion,, it demonstrates that Witnesses have repeatedly challenged the traditional jurisdictions of the state. It is not the size or spread of the organisation that has encouraged opposition to Witnesses, both popular and political, but instead their departures from mainstream Christian beliefs and practic

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Opposition,ogical opponents. It also assesses the transmission of the Anti-Cult Movement’s agenda to governmental policy, focussing on initiatives prompted by the European Parliament in 1984 which stigmatised, marginalised and, in some countries, even criminalised the organisation.

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Introduction,tion. The chapter outlines the central argument of the book, namely that Witnesses’ global experience reveals much about the nature of religious tolerance in the modern world. It attends to issues of terminology and definition, crucial in this context given the particular vocabulary used by Witnesses.

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Ministry,e is for Mormons, for example), but integral to their very definition of who is considered one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The imperative to evangelise has brought its adherents into direct conflict with state authorities in arenas that are not traditionally the domain of religion.

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Book 2018itness discourse, from media portrayals of the community as marginal and exotic to the anti-cult movement.  Focusing on varied historical, ideological and national contexts, the book argues that Witnesses have had a defining influence on conceptions of religious tolerance in the modern world..                .