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Jehovah's Witnesses LUcat Search catalogue 294918310

STA
Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
Jehovah' Getuigen

IND
3

MIS
A millenarian movement organized in the USA in 1884 under Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916). They adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses in 1931; previously they were called ‘Millennial Dawnists’ and ‘International Bible Students’. They have their own translation of the Bible, which they interpret literally. They believe in the imminent second coming of Christ, avoid worldly involvement, and refuse to obey any law which they see as a contradiction of the law of God - refusing, for example, to take oaths, enter military service, or receive blood transfusions. They publish The Watchtower, meet in Kingdom Halls, and all ‘witness’ through regular house-to-house preaching. They numbered 5.9 million in 1999, and are now an international movement. (Jehovah's Witnesses. Crystal Reference Encyclopedia. Retrieved 30 June 2003, at www.xreferplus.com/entry/939383)

PPN
294918310

UDC
289.954

MRF
279.17

BT1
Protestant churches

UF
Kitawala Movement
Watch Tower Movement

BSO
06.02.01 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND DENOMINATIONS

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