![]() ![]() Persian, Jayne (2005) ‘The Banning of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Australia in 1941’, The Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association (TASA), Conference Proceedings. (pdf)/religion_persian.pdf Persian, Jayne (2005) A National Nuisance: The Banning of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Australia in 1941, Honours thesis, University of Wollongong NSW. Penton, M James (1999) Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Penton, M James (1979) ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Secular State: A Historical Analysis of Doctrine’, Journal of Church and State 21: 55-72. ![]() Oliver, Bobbie (2001) ‘Australia: Jehovah’s Witnesses, Censorship during World War II’ and ‘5KA Radio Station’ in Derek Jones, ed, Censorship: A World Encyclopedia. Lawson, Ronald (1995) ‘Sect-State Relations: Accounting for the Different Trajectories of Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesses’, Sociology of Religion v 56 n 4: 351(27). Knox, Zoe (2011) Writing Witness History: The Historiography of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the WatchTower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Journal of Religious History, Vol 35, No 2. Knox, Zoe (2011) The Watch Tower Society and the End of the Cold War: Interpretations of the End-Times, Superpower Conflict, and the Changing Geo-Political World Order, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol 79, No 4. Studies in Religion and Society, Volume Four, The Edwin Mellen Press, New York. King, Christine (1982) The Nazi State and the New Religions: Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity. Kaplan, William (1991) ‘The World War Two Bans on the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Canada and Australia: Do Constitutional Protections Really Work?’, Australian-Canadian 9: 5-20. Jubber, Ken (1977) ‘The Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in South Africa’, Social Compass XXIV: 121-134. Grizzuti Harrison, Barbara (1980) Visions of Glory: A History and a Memory of Jehovah’s Witnesses. ![]() University of Calgary Press, Alberta, Canada. Oxford: Basil Blackwell and Molt Limited.īlankholm, Joe (2009) ‘No Part of the World: How Jehovah’s Witnesses Perform the Boundaries of their Community’, ARC, The Journal of the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Vol 37.īotting, Gary (1993) Fundamental Freedoms and Jehovah’s Witnesses. It represents the first effort to evaluate the English-language historical literature on the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.Beckford, James A (1975) The Trumpet of Prophecy: A Sociological Study of Jehovah’s Witnesses. ![]() This article aims to initiate discussion of this under-researched history by addressing what has been written, by whom, and for what purpose. The paucity of historical knowledge is all the more surprising given their visibility and notoriety. Despite the Witnesses' broad historical role in defining and shaping understandings of religious tolerance, freedom of conscience, and civil liberties around the world, historians have paid very little attention to the Witnesses, with the notable exception of their treatment in Nazi Germany and the United States and Canada in wartime. From their humble origins as small, loose-knit groups of Bible students in Pennsylvania in the 1870s, Charles Taze Russell and his followers laid the foundations of a highly visible, and frequently controversial, worldwide religious organisation known since 1931 as the Jehovah's Witnesses. ![]()
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