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Jehovah's Witnesses

Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement

by Andrew Holden

A sociological study based on fieldwork among Witnesses in England, examining conversion, community life, the preaching work and the movement's relationship with modern society. Holden interprets the Witnesses as a distinctively modern form of religious organisation.

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