Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies and Movements)
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | ISBN: 0810860740 | edition 2008 | PDF | 240 pages | 1,06 mb
"Originating in the 1870s from a small group of Bible students led by Charles Taze Russell, the Watch Tower Society grew into an international society. After Russell's death in 1916, Franklin Rutherford was named his successor and gave the society a new name: Jehovah's Witnesses. Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses shows how World Wars I and II influenced Watch Tower attitudes toward civil government