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Minority Religions and Religious Tolerance
The Jehovah’s Witness Test
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This book is founded on a simple premise: that Jehovah's Witnesses are a crucial litmus test for tolerance.When Witnesses do not enjoy basic freedoms to practice their faith, scholars should consider what their treatment reveals about the broader state of tolerance and respect for religious pluralism and religious minority groups. They should also examine how the Witnesses' struggle for acceptance has shaped religious freedom and the protections enshrined in law in many modern states in the twenty-first century. This is what the authors call the 'Jehovah's Witness test'.
The contributors have run the 'JW test' across a range of countries, from Egypt and Mexico to Russia and South Korea, addressing religious, political and medical opposition and their outcomes for modern states and societies. They bring to their conclusions a wealth of perspectives; among them are medical experts, sociologists, political scientists, historians, anthropologists, and representatives of the Witness community.
Taken together, this volume is a call for scholars to look to the treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses as a barometer for the overall health of religious tolerance and basic civil liberties in our contemporary world.
The contributors have run the 'JW test' across a range of countries, from Egypt and Mexico to Russia and South Korea, addressing religious, political and medical opposition and their outcomes for modern states and societies. They bring to their conclusions a wealth of perspectives; among them are medical experts, sociologists, political scientists, historians, anthropologists, and representatives of the Witness community.
Taken together, this volume is a call for scholars to look to the treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses as a barometer for the overall health of religious tolerance and basic civil liberties in our contemporary world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Dedication Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Religious Minorities and the ‘Jehovah’s Witness Test’: An Introduction Zoe Knox and Emily B. Baran
- 1 When Witnesses Talk Back: Ethnographic and Eschatological Reflections on Experiences of Intolerance among Jehovah’s Witnesses in Contemporary Northern Ireland
- 2 Intersectional Discriminations against Jehovah’s Witnesses: Blood Transfusions, Religious Minorities and Secularism in Mexico Edgar Zavala-Pelayo
- 3 Blood Refusal and the Ethics Revolution Margo A. Peyton and Michael P. H. Stanley
- 4 Nation-Building, Christian Churches and Jehovah’s Witnesses: Dual Encounters in Egypt Lise Paulsen Galal
- 5 Minority Religions and Conscientious Objection: The South Korean Case Kwang Suk Yoo
- 6 First Amendment Freedoms and Jehovah’s Witnesses in the United States John R. Vile
- 7 Jehovah’s Witnesses and the International Campaign for Religious Freedom James T. Richardson
- 8 Banning Religious Minorities: Does it Work? Emily B. Baran and Zoe Knox
- 9 ‘Political Neutrality’ during the 1994 Genocide against theTutsi in Rwanda: A Case Study of Jehovah’s Witnesses Tharcisse Seminega and Valens Nkurikiyinka
- 10 The Law nd the Prophets: Concluding Reflections George D. Chryssides
- Notes
- Index
- Imprint