This volume shows how World Wars I & II influenced Watch Tower attitudes to civil government, armed conflict, and medical innovations like blood transfusion, as

Originating from a small group of Bible students who met under Charles Taze Russell’s leadership and grew into an international Society, to which the second l

This book examines the historic tensions between Jehovah’s Witnesses and government authorities, civic organisations, established churches and the broader pub

Originating from a small group of Bible students led by Charles Taze Russell in the 1870s, the Watch Tower Society grew into an international society. After Rus

From its origins in nineteenth century Adventism until the present day, the Watch Tower Society has become one of the best known but least understood new religi