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 …

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 article introduces the special issue,“The Dynamics of Religion, Media, and Community”.
It examines the shifting faith in the concept of religious community in the social studies of …

Drawing on the example of Jehovah's Witnesses, in this contribution I will explore the role of
media in the production of religious commitment. I will argue that, while providing important …

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to study groups of civil patriotism and to highlight the
features of their civil-Patriotic practices in local communities in the South of Russia …

Abstract For Jehovah's Witnesses, evangelism is of prime importance. It forms the core of
their identity and is shaped by an ethics of communication. Witness evangelism is a …

Resulting from health care reform in Germany that was implemented in 2003–2004, a new
medical classification system called the “Diagnosis Related Groups”(DRGs) was introduced …

Whilst religious affiliation may be viewed as adaptive behaviour beneficial to an individual's
mental health, the phenomenon of disaffiliation has been associated with deleterious mental …

I address two broad questions regarding cash waqfs, which are Islamic law-sanctioned
crowdfunding-style platforms established to provide public goods and services in the Muslim …