A sociological analysis of the origin and development of the Jehovah's Witnesses and their schismatic groups

Since 1942 the Witnesses, under the third Watch Tower Society president Nathan H. Knorr, have engaged in a widespread training campaign whose purpose has been the socialisation of new converts and their training to maintain the high rate of recruitment to the sect. The Bible student community, on th...

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Main Author: Rogerson, Alan
Published: University of Oxford 1972
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.470895