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Jehoova tunnistajad Eestis [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2012 The article explores the history of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in Estonia. The first Bible students emerged in Estonia in the 1920s, and the Society started its work in the country in 1926 when the local office was opened.
Ringo Ringvee
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Świadkowie Jehowy na ziemiach polskich – w XX wieku [PDF]
Język. Religia. Tożsamość, 2021 Jehovah’s Witnesses have been present in Poland for over a hundred years. This period was full of various events affecting both their entire community and its individual members. Beginnings in the interwar period - partly as a legal association, but also
Jan Miłosz
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Jehovah's Witnesses' three periods
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1975 Among modern formations of religion, arisen within Christendom, there is no one that has changed its doctrine and attitude so much as Jehovah's Witnesses, so that the religious content in the three periods can be labelled as new, newer, the newest.
Åke Ström
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"We Represent a Definite Social Class": The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties. [PDF]
Br J SociolABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Huttenlocher T, Wilde M.
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JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES’ ADOPTION OF DIGITALLY-MEDIATED SERVICES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 This is the first paper to analyse the digitalisation measures that Jehovah’s Witnesses adopted during the pandemic and their behavioural consequences. The paper examines how the Witness community met the challenges of the pandemic by rapidly shifting to
Jose Torres-Pruñonosa +2 more
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Jehovas Vidner. I grænsefladen af den danske religionsmodel
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2015 Jehovah’s Witnesses have existed as a minority religion in Denmark for more than hundred years. I argue that even Jehovah’s Witnesses are clearly within, although situated in the borderland of the Danish model of religion, they are also located in a ...
Annika Hvithamar
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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LIVER TRANSPLANTATION IN JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES PATIENTS IN A CENTER OF NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL
Arquivos de Gastroenterologia, 2013 Context Liver transplantation has been accepted as a therapeutic option for patients with end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure. Currently, Brazil has a well-established public organ transplant program, performing 7,425 solid organs transplants
José Huygens Parente GARCIA +5 more
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Blood Conservation Strategy during Cardiac Valve Surgery in Jehovah’s Witnesses: a Comparative Study with Non-Jehovah’s Witnesses [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2016 Background: We compared the clinical outcomes of cardiac valve surgery in adult Jehovah’s Witness patients refusing blood transfusion to those in non-Jehovah’s Witness patients without any transfusion limitations. Methods: From 2005 to 2014, 25 Jehovah’s
Tae Sik Kim +2 more
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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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