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The Watchtower movement has over ten million followers and remains one of the fastest growing religious movements in the world today. Since the movement actively proselytizes throughout the world, many people are aware of Jehovah's Witnesses, but readers may not be aware that the movement has profoundly influenced the constitutional law of many countries, including America and Canada.
This volume contains almost 10,000 references on the Watchtower movement and the dozen or so major schisms that have occurred since its founding in 1879. An introductory chapter reviews the history, major events, and doctrinal changes of the Jehovah's Witnesses. Books, book chapters, booklets, dissertations, journal articles, and book sections that examine the Watchtower movement are referenced in English and other langauges such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Turkish. Selectively annotated, the entries are grouped in five major sections for easy reference. Scholars and researchers will appreciate the comprehensive list the author has provided of all literature published by the Watchtower movement throughout its history.
List of contents
Introduction by Joseph F. Zygmunt
Official Watchtower Society Literature
Material Associated with the Russell Movement
Books, Manuscripts, Tracts, and Newsletters
Magazine and Journal Articles
American Offshoots of the Watchtower Society
Non-American Offshoots
Index
About the author
Jerry Bergman is a multi-award-winning teacher and author. He has taught biology, biochemistry, anatomy and genetics, psychology, and other courses for over forty years at the University of Toledo Medical College, Bowling Green State University, and other colleges. His nine degrees include a doctorate from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. The 1,026 college credit hours he has earned is the equivalent to almost twenty master's degrees.
His over 1,800 publications in both scholarly and popular science journals have been translated into thirteen languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Polish, Czech, Chinese, Arabic and Swedish. His books, and books that include chapters that he authored, are in over 2,400 college libraries in sixty-five countries. So far over 80,000 copies of the sixty books and monographs that he has authored or coauthored are in print. Bergman has spoken over 2,000 times to college, university, and church groups in America, Canada, Europe, the south Sea Islands, and Africa.
