Why are religious minorities well represented and politically influential in some democracies
but not others? Focusing on evangelical Christians in Latin America, this book argues that …

Because of limited academic literature, this study aims to encourage research into child
sexual abuse (CSA) in the worldwide Christian Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) …

When Bloomsbury first received my proposal for this book, I had been invited to a
conference in Wuhan, China, but had to decline. Shortly after, news began to break about a …

Originating from a small group of Bible students who met under Charles Taze Russell's
leadership and grew into an international Society, to which the second leader Joseph …

This article examines the temporality of dispensationalist imaginings of the apocalypse, with
a particular focus on why such imaginings often have an acutely violent character. For the …

In the autumn of 1952, two Jehovah's Witnesses from Ukraine clandestinely met in Lviv in a
safe house owned by a Witness courier named Tatiana. They did not know each other. This …

In this open access book, Andrea Rota makes the case for philosophical, theoretical, and
empirical approaches to the study of religion, drawing on ongoing debates and challenging …

This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation
of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It discusses how religious …

The Jehovah's Witnesses have emerged in the United States as one of the very few
denominations that have attracted as many as a million members, a status that came only …

This article offers a critical examination of Jehovah's Witnesses' positionality on
homosexuality. After making the case for engaging with memoir literature, the article …