A Qualitative Analysis of the Jehovah's Witnesses: The Rhetoric, reality, and religion in the Watchtower Society
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Description
Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most persecuted religious groups in the world and the most persecuted Christian organization in the 20th century. How the Witnesses shape their response to persecution is invariably associated with the social reality they construct in their rhetorical practices. This is a descriptive analysis and interpretation of the social reality constructed by the discourse of the Jehovah'’ Witnesses, utilizing a qualitative-interpretive approach for exploration into a social reality. The purpose is to determine how the textual and contextual reality of Jehovah’s Witnesses influences their lives and courses of action, how discursive practices are fundamental to their understanding of themselves and others.
ISBN
0773479430
Publication Date
1999
Publisher
E. Mellen Press
City
Lewiston, NY
Keywords
Jehovah's Witnesses, Christianity, rhetorical practices, social reality
Disciplines
Christian Denominations and Sects
Recommended Citation
Cronn-Mills, D. (1999). A qualitative analysis of the Jehovah's Witnesses : The rhetoric, reality, and religion in the Watchtower society. E. Mellen Press.
