Jehoova tunnistajad Eestis [PDF]
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]
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
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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JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES’ ADOPTION OF DIGITALLY-MEDIATED SERVICES DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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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Consensus shattered : Japanese paradigm shifts and moral panic in the post-Aum era. [PDF]
Any discussion of the factors shaping attitudes to, and patterns of conflict over, new religious movements (NRMs) in Japan today has to be conducted in the light of the activities of Aum Shinrikyô.
Reader, Ian J.
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The relationship between denominational affiliation and spiritual health among weekly-churchgoing 13- to 15-year-old adolescents in England and Wales [PDF]
THIS PAPER DRAWS on John Fisher’s formative definition of spiritual health as comprising good relationships within four domains (the personal, the communal, the environmental and the transcendental) and uses the operationalization of these constructs ...
Francis, Leslie J., Robbins, Mandy
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Jehovas Vidner. I grænsefladen af den danske religionsmodel
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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Jehovah’s Witnesses and Blood Transfusions: An Analysis of the Legal Protections Afforded to Adults and Children in European/English Human Rights Contexts [PDF]
This article considers the degree to which the religious beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses are given consideration in European and English courts. Adults' refusal of blood transfusions, based upon religious belief, is examined within the context of European
Ó Néill, C
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Anesthesia for a Jehovah’s Witness with Critical Anemia from Ruptured Stomach GIST
We report a case of a female Jehovah’s Witness admitted to the hospital with concealed rupture of stomach gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and scheduled for exploratory laparotomy with tumor removal. She was critically anemic and refused to receive all kinds of blood or blood products.
Kasana Raksamani +2 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]
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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