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Bibliography Part 2: Articles in Edited Volumes and Scientific Journals

Bibliography: Introduction
Bibliography Part 1: Books from Academic Sources
Bibliography Part 2: Articles in Edited Volumes and Scientific Journals
Bibliography Part 3: Polemic Publications by (ex-)Jehovah's Witnesses and other works
Bibliography Part 4: Medical-Ethical Publications particularly on the refusal of
blood-transfusions by Jehovah's Witnesses
Bibliography Part 5: Medical-Technical publications particularly on medical possibilities when confronted with a refusal of blood-transfusion by Jehovah's Witnesses


Authors in alphabetical order:
A
B C D E F G H J K L M N P Q R S W Y Z

Alston, J.P & B.E. Aguirre (1979)
Congregational Size and The Decline of Sectarian Commitment: The Case of the Jehovah's Witnesses in South and North America.
Sociological Analysis
40(1)63-70

Aguirre, B.E. & J.P. Alston (1980)
Organizational Change and Religious Commitment. Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists in Cuba, 1938-1965
Pacific Sociological Review
23(2)171-197

Assimeng, J.M. (1970)
Sectarian Allegiance and Political Authority: The Watch Tower Society in Zambia, 1907-1935.
Journal of Modern African Studies
, 8(1)97-112.

Barber, H.W. (1947)
Religious Liberty vs. Police Power: Jehovah's Witnesses.
American Political Science Review,
41(1947):266-47

Beckford, James A. (1972)
The Embryonic Stage of a Religious Sect's Development: The Jehovah's Witnesses.
A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain
, Vol 5, Michael Hill (ed.), pp 11-32, London, SCM Press

Idem (1975a)
Organization, Ideology and Recruitment: The Structure of the Watch Tower Movement.
Sociological Review
23(4)893-909.

Idem (1975b)
Two Contrasting Types of Sectarian Organization. 
Sectarianism. Analyses of Religious and Non-Religious Sects
, Roy Wallis (ed.), pp. 70-85. London, Peter Owen.

Idem (1975c)
Correspondence: Psychiatry and Sectarians
British Journal of Psychiatry
127:414 [Comment on Spencer 1975]

Idem (1976a)
"New Wine in New Bottles". A departure from church-sect conceptual tradition.
Social Compass
23(1)72-85

Idem (1976b)
Structural Dependence in Religious Organization: From "Skid-Road" to Watch Tower.
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,
15(2)169-75.

Idem (1977)
The Watchtower Movement World-Wide.
Social Compass
24(1)5-31.

Idem (1978a)
Accounting for Conversion.
British Journal of Sociology
29(2)249-262

Idem (1978b)
Sociological stereotypes of the religious sect
Sociological Review
26(1)109-123

Bergman, Jerry (1995)
Newton, Merlin Owen. Armed with the Constitution: Jehovah's Witnesses in Alabama and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-1946.
Journal of Church and State
37(4)919-921.

Idem (1996a)
Dealing with Jehovah's Witness custody cases.
Creighton Law Review
29(4)1483-1516.

Idem (1996b)
The Jehovah's Witnesses' Experience in the Nazi Concentration Camps: A History of Their Conflicts with the Nazi State.
Journal of Church and State
38(1)87-113

Idem (1997)
The Modern Religious Objection to Mandatory Flag Salute in America: A History and Evaluation
Journal of Church and State
39(2)215-236

Besier, G. & R-M. Besier (1999)
Zeugen Jehovas/Wachtturm Gesellschaft: Eine vormoderne religiöse Gemeinschaft in der "modernen" Gesellschaft? Gutachtliche Stellungnahme.
Die neuen Inquisatoren. Religionsfreiheit und Glaubensneid
. Teil II. Gerhard Besier & Erwin K. Scheuch (Hrsg), pp 95-210. Zürich, Edition Interfrom.

Idem (2001)
Jehovah's Witnesses' Request for Recognition as a Corporation under Public Law in Germany: Background, Current Status, and Empirical Aspects.
Journal of Church and State
43(1)35-48

Bourgeois, M. et al (1975)
Une secte religieuse, ses malades mentaux, son médecin et ses psychiatres
Annales Médico-psychologiques
133(1)160-167

Braeman, J. (1996)
Merlin Owen Newton. Armed with the Constitution: Jehovah's Witnesses in Alabama and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-1946.
American Historical Review
101(5):1642.

Bram, Joseph (1956)
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Values of American Culture
Transactions of the New York Academy of Science
19(1)47-53

Burkholder, John R. (1974)
"The Law Knows No Heresy": Marginal Religious Movements and the Courts
Religious Movements in Contemporary America
. I. Zaretsky & M.P. Leone (eds), pp 27-36 Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Cagne, C. (1994)
Connaitre et comprendre le temoin de Jehovah (1e partie).
Revue de l'Infirmiere,
Issue 19:60.

Cagne, C. (1995)
Connaitre et comprendre le temoin de Jehovah (2e partie).
Revue de l'Infirmiere,
Issue 1:57.

Cohn, Werner (1955)
Jehovah's Witnesses as a Proletarian Mouvement.
The American Scholar
24(3)281-298

Cooper, Lee R. (1974)
"Publish or Perish": Negro Jehovah's Witness Adaptation to the Getto.
Religious Movements in Contemporary America
. I. Zaretsky & M.P. Leone (eds), pp 700-721. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Côté, Pauline & James T. Richardson (2001)
Disciplined Litigation, Vigilant Litigation, and Deformation: Dramatic Organizational Change in Jehovah's Witnesses.
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
40(1)11-25

Cross, Sholto (1977)
Social History and Millennial Movements: The Watch Tower in South Central Afrika.
Social Compass
, 24(1)183-95.

Cunnison, Ian (1951)
A Watchtower Assembly in Central Afrika.
The International Review of Missions
41:456-469.

Dericquebourg, Régis (1977)
Les Temoins de Jéhovah dans le Nord de la France: Implantation et expansion.
Social Compass,
24(1)71-82.

Idem (1978)
Note sur l'attitude des Temoins de Jehovah et des baptistes face à l'occupant pendant la seconde guerre modiale.
Revue du Nord
60(238)439-443

Idem (1980)
Le Béthel: Ordre Religieux Jéhoviste?
Archives de Science Sociales des Religions
50(1)77-88

Idem (1986)
Le Jéhovisme: Une conception comportementaliste de la vie religieuse
Archives de Science Sociales des Religions
62(1)161-176

Idem (1989)
Le Jéhovisme, contre-emprise à la modernité
Archives de Science Sociales des Religions
68(1)93-112

Dewing, K. & R. Taft (1973)
Some characteristics of the parents of creative twelve-year-olds
Journal of Personality
41(1)81-82

Dillard, Irving (1987)
"The Flag Salute Cases." Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution
John A Garraty (ed). New York, Harper & Row.

Dobbelaere, Karel & Brian R. Wilson (1980)
Jehovah's Witnesses in a Catholic country. A Survey of Nine Belgian Congregations
Archives de Science Sociales des Religions
50(1)89-110. [Republished in Wilson 1990, ch 8]

Epstein, A.L. (1986)
The Millennium and the Self: Jehovah's Witnesses on the Copperbelt in the '50s.
Anthropos
81:529-554.

Felder, W. & R.J. Corboz (1979)
Weitere Untersuchungen über die prospektiven Dienstverweigern in den Jahren 1974-1976
Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie, Neurochirurgie und Psychiatrie
125(2)327-335

Garbe, Detlef (1994)
'Sendboten des Jüdischen Bolschewismus'. Antisemitismus als Motiv nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung der Zeugen Jehovas.
Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte
, Vol 23, pp 145-171

Gebhart, M. (1997)
Dr. Hans Jonak von Freyenwald. Ein faschistischer Apologet gegen die Zeugen Jehovas.
Beitrage zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung
. 39(1):20-39.

Hessler, Gerhard (1997)
Die Berücksichtigung der Zugehörigkeit eines Elternteils zu den Zeugen Jehovas im Sorgerechtsverfahren.
Neue Juristische Wochenschrift
50(44)2930-2932, 2962

Heuvel, R. van den (2001)
Het ontbrekende hoofdstuk. De vervolging van Jehovah's Getuigen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Auschwitz Bulletin
45(1)46-49

Homan, Roger (1988)
Teaching the Children of Jehovah's Witnesses
British Journal of Religious Education
10(3)154-159

Hooker, J.R. (1965)
Witnesses and Watchtower in the Rhodesias and Nyasaland.
Journal of African History,
6(1)91-106.

Jadot, F. et al (1979)
Attitudes face au service militaire et structure de personalité. Etude clinique, psychométrique et projective de Témoins de Jehovah et d'objecteurs de conscience
Acta psychiatrica belgica
79:254-273

Janner, J. (1963)
Die forensisch-psychiatrische und sanitätsdienstliche Beurteiling von Dienstweigeren
Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift
93:819-826

Jansma, L.G. & C.H.A. Verhaar (1989)
Twa religieuze bewegings yn Harns.
Harlingen. Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de laatste twee eeuwen
, J.J. Huizinga e.a. (red), pp195-231. Ljouwert, Fryske Academie.

Jones, R.K. (1985)
The mental health of religious extremists
Sickness and Sectarianism: Exploratory Studies in medical and religious sectarianism
. R.K. Jones (ed.), pp 113-125. Aldershot, Gower Publisers. ISBN 0566006626

Jubber, K. (1977)
The Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Southern Africa
Social Compass
24(1)121-134

Kater, M. (1969)
"Die Ernsten Bibelforscher im Dritten Reich."
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte
17(2)181-218

King, Christine E. (1979)
Strategies for Survival: An Examination of the History of Five Christian Sects in Germany 1933-45
Journal of Contemporary History
14(2)211-234

Idem (1982)
Some Lesser-Known Victims of Totalitarian Persecution.
Patterns of Prejudice
16(2)15-26

Idem (1983)
Strategies for Survival: Sectarian Experience in the Third Reich.
Of Gods and Men. New Religious Movements in the West
. Eileen Barker (ed.). Mercer GA, Mercer University Press, pp 239-253

Idem (1990)
Jehovah's Witnesses under Nazisme.
A Mosaic of Victims, Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis.
Michael Berenbaum (ed). New York.

Lawson, R. (1995)
Sect-State Relations: Accounting for the Differing Trajectories of Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses.
Sociology of Religion,
56(4)351-378.

Leman, Johan (1979)
Jehovah's Witnesses and Immigration in Continental Western Europe
Social Compass
24(1)41-72

Idem, Johan (1998)
The Italo-Brussels Jehovah's Witnesses Revisited: From First-generation Religious Fundamentalism to Ethno-religious Community Formation.
Social Compass
, 45(2)219-226.

MacLeod, James M. (1995)
The Sources and Structures of Authority among Jehovah's Witnesses: A Contemporary Survey. North American Religion, A Publication of the Centre for the Study of North American Religion at the University of Lethbridge 4: 84-113.

Maesen, William & Lawrence La Fave (1960)
The Jehovah's Witnesses Today: A Study by Participant Observation
Proceedings of the Southwestern Sociological Society
9(April)102-104

Maesen, W.A. (1970)
Watchtower Influences on Black Muslim Eschatology
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
9(4)321-325

Mann, Brenda (1972)
The Great Crowd: Ethnography of Jehovah's Witnesses.
The Cultural Experience. Ethnography in Complex Societies.
S.R. Spradley & D.W. McCurdy (eds), pp 157-168. Chicago, Science Research Associates.

Melton, J. Gordon (1996)
Jehovah's Witnesses. Encyclopedia of American Religions. (5th edition)
Gale Research, Washington DC, pp. 525-526

Montague, Havor (1977)
The Pessimistic Sect's Influence on the Mental Health of Its Members: The Case of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Social Compass
24(1)135-7.

Munters, Q.J. (1971)
Recruitment as a Vocation: The Case of Jehovah's Witnesses
Sociologie Neerlandica
, Vol 7, pp 88-100

Idem (1977)
Recruitment and serious candidates
Social Compass
24(1)59-69

Nichols, D. (1994)
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society BB time running out.
New Humanist
109(1):8.

Penton, M. James (1979)
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular State: A Historical Analysis of Doctrine.
Journal of Church and State
21: 55-72.

Idem (1992)
A Reprint of a Foundational Document of the Jehovah's Witnesses (1877) "The Object and Manner of Our Lord's Return" by C.T. Russell.
North American Religion, A Publication of the Centre for the Study of North American Religion at the University of Lethbridge
1, 76-126.

Idem (1993)
The Jehovah's Witnesses: A Bibliographical Essay of Recent Books in English.
North American Religion, A Publication of the Centre for the Study of North American Religion at the University of Lethbridge
2, 95-133.

Penton, David J. & M. James Penton (1995)
Pyramidology in the Adventist/Bible Student Tradition: Science, Pseudo-Science and Religion.
North American Religion, A Publication of the Centre for the Study of North American Religion at the University of Lethbridge
4, 66-83.

Pescor, M.J. (1949)
A Study of Selective Law Violators
American Journal of Psychiatry
105(9)641-652

Pikl, Armin & Gajus Glockentin
Jehovas Zeugen als Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts.
Die neuen Inquisatoren. Religionsfreiheit und Glaubensneid
. Teil II. Gerhard Besier & Erwin K. Scheuch (Hrsg), pp 211-279. Zürich, Edition Interfrom.

Poewe, Karla O. (1978)
Religion, matriliny and change: Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-Day Adventists in Luapula, Zambia.
American Ethnologist
, 5(2)303-321

Quick, Griffith (1940)
Some aspects of the African Watch Tower Movement in Northern Rhodesië.
The International Review of Missions
, (Vol. 29), no. 66.

Raven, Robin (1996)
Samen op school. Jehovah's-Getuigenkinderen op de basisschool.
School en Godsdienst
50(4)66-67

Rogerson, Alan (1977)
Témoins de Jéhovah et Etudians de la Bible. Qui est schismatique?
Social Compass
24(1)33-43

Rothberg, M.A. (1975)
Correspondence: Psychiatry and Sectarians
British Journal of Psychiatry
127:414-415 [Comment on Spencer 1975]

Schmalz Mathew N. (1994)
"When Festinger Fails": Prophecy and the Watchtower
Religion
, 24(4)293-308
[Reprinted in Jon R. Stone (ed) Expecting Armageddon. Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy. Routledge, New York, 2000, pp 233-250]

Seguy, Jean (1966)
Messianisme et échec social: Les Témoins de Jéhovah
Archives de Sociologie des Religions
21: 88-99.

Shepperson, G. (1970)
Nyasaland and the Millennium
Studies in Revolutionary Religious Movements
, S. Thrupp, S. (ed.), pp 144-159. New York, Shocken Books.

Singelenberg, Richard (1986)
Antropologisch onderzoek onder gelovigen.
It Beaken. Tydkrift fan de Fryske Akademy
48(3,4)197-205.

Idem (1988)
"Niemand van u zal bloed eten".
Intermediair
24(30) 29 juli Read it on-line

Idem (1988)
"It separated the wheat from the chaff": the "1975" prophecy and its impact among Dutch Jehovah's Witnesses.
Sociological Analysis
, 50:23-40 Read it on-line
[Reprinted in Expecting Armageddon. Essential Readings in Failed Prophecy, Jon R. Stone (ed), pp 191-209. New York, Routledge, 2000].

Idem (1990)
The blood transfusion taboo of Jehovah's Witnesses: origin, development and function of a controversial doctrine.
Social Science & Medicine
, 31(4):515-523. Read it on-line
[Reprinted in Clinical Medical Ethics Cases and Readings, D.C.Thomasma & P.A.Marshall (eds), pp 297-309. Lanham MD, University Press of America, 1995]

Idem (1990)
Defectie onder Jehovah's Getuigen: enige notities naar aanleiding van een bijeenkomst.
Religieuze bewegingen in Nederland
, No. 21:97-103.

Idem (1991)
Vreemd bloed is zondig bloed: Jehovah's Getuigen en bloedtransfusie.
Religieuze bewegingen in Nederland
, No. 22:125-158 Read it on-line

Idem (1992)
Religieuze Stigmatisering? Toewijzingsperikelen rondom het Jehovah's Getuigen-ouderschap.
Tijdschrift voor Familie- en Jeugdrecht
14(8)180-183
[Uitgebreide versie in Religieuze bewegingen in Nederland, 1996, No 31:15-25] Read it on-line

Idem (1993)
Het huidige wereldbeeld van een Jehova's Getuige.
Psychologie,
11(jan):14-16 Read it on-line

Idem (1994)
Totaalweigering en Jehovah's Getuigen.
Nederlands Juristenblad,
69(20 mei):678-682
[Uitgebreide versie "Jehovah's Getuigen en het leger", in Religieuze bewegingen in Nederland, 1996, No. 31:1-14] Read it on-line

Idem (1996)
Jehovah's Getuigen.
Religieuze Bewegingen in Nederland,
No 32:85-130. Read it on-line

Idem (2000)
Stigma's and Stereotypes: Child Custody Decisions and Jehovah's Witness Parenthood.
Religion, Staat, Gesellschaft
1(1) 41-59 Read it on-line

Singelenberg, Richard - Book reviews / boekbesprekingen

Idem (1992) Review of Matthew Alfs "The Evocative Religion of Jehovah's Witnesses. An Analysis of a Present-Day Phenomenon". Journal for Scientific Study of Religion, 31(2)234-235.

Idem (1995) Idem, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 105(3)426-427. Read it on-line

Idem (2000b) Review of Gerald Hacke "Zeugen Jehovas in der DDR. Verfolgung und Verhalten einer religiösen Minderheit", in Journal of Church and State 42(3) pp 574-576 Read it on-line

Idem (2000c) Review of Simone Arnold Liebster "Facing the Lion. Memoirs of a young girl in Nazi Europe", in Religion, Staat, Gesellschaft 1(2) pp 375-376 Read it on-line

Idem (2001) Review of Daniel Cronn-Mills "A Quantitative Analysis of the Jehovah's Witnesses: The Rhetoric, Reality and Religion in the Watchtower Society", in Journal of Contemporary Religion 16(1) pp 143-145

Smith, Chuck (2001)
The Persecution of West Virginia Jehovah's Witnesses and the Expansion of Legal Protection for Religious Liberty.
Journal of Church and State
43(3)539-578

Spencer, J. (1975)
The Mental Health of Jehovah's Witnesses
British Journal of Psychiatry
126:556-559. [for comments: Beckford 1975c, Rothberg 1975]

Spradley, J.P. & D.W. McCurdy (1975)
Anthropology: The Cultural Experience
. Ch 13 "Religion and Magic"
New York, John Wiley.

Stark, Rodney & Laurence Iannacconne (1997)
Why the Jehovah's Witnesses Grow so Rapidly: A Theoretical Application.
Journal of Contemporary Religion,
12(2)133-156

Wah, Carolyn R. (1992)
Religion as a Factor in Child Custody and Visitation Cases- Principles and Pitfalls.
American Journal of Family Law
6:159-166

Idem (1994a)
Religion in Child Custody and Visitation Cases: Presenting the Advantage of Religious Participation.
Family Law Quarterly
28(2)269-287

Idem (1994b)
Mental Health and Minority Religions
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
17(3)331-345

Idem (1997)
Religion as a factor in best interest hearings.
Wiley Family Law Update
, pp 111-138. New York, John Wiley & Sons

Idem (1998)
The Role of the Mental Health Care Professional in Evaluating a Minor's Capacity to Select Religious Affiliation.
American Journal of Family Law
12(4)229-246

Idem (1999)
Religion and Minors: Evaluating Potential Benefits and Potential Harms.
American Journal of Family Law
13:115-132

Idem (2001a)
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Responsibility of Religious Freedom: The European Experience
Journal of Church and State
, 43(3)579-601

Idem (2001b)
An Introduction to Research and Analysis of Jehovah's witnesses: A View From the Watchtower.
Review of Religious Research
43(2)161-174

Idem (2001c)
Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Custody Cases.
Review of Religious Research
42( 4)372-386.

Waite, Edward F. (1944)
The Debt of Constitutional Law to Jehovah's Witnesses.
Minnesota Law Review
, 28 (March):246.

Weddle, David L. (2000)
A New Generation of Jehovah's Witnesses: Revised Interpretation, Ritual, and Identity.
Nova Religio
3(2)350-367

Weishaupt, K.J. en M.D. Stensland (1997)
Wifely Subjection: Mental Health Issues in Jehovah's Witness Women.
Cultic Studies Journal,
14(1)106-144.

Whitley, O.R. & C.H. Snelling (1977)
Participant-Observation Research on Contemporary Religious Groups: An Hermeneutic Process
The Iliff Review
34:45-61

Wilson, Bryan R. (1968)
When Prophecy Failed.
New Society
, 43 (January 26)18-34.

Idem (1973)
Jehovah's Witnesses in Afrika.
New Society
25 (July 12)73-75.

Idem (1973)
Jehovah's Witnesses in Kenya.
Journal of Religion in Africa,
5( 2)128-149.

Idem (1977)
Aspects of Kinship and the Rise of Jehovah's Witnesses in Japan.
Social Compass
24(1)97-120.

Idem (1990)
The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism
. [Chapters 7, 8 & 9]
Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 0198273460

Yonan, Gabriele (1999a)
Spiritual Resistance of Christian Conviction in Nazi Germany: The Case of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Journal of Church and State
41(2)307-322

Idem (1999b)
Die Zeugen Jehovas in Deutschland: Bemühungen einer Religionsgemeinschaft um Anerkennung.
Die neuen Inquisatoren. Religionsfreiheit und Glaubensneid
. Teil I. Gerhard Besier & Erwin K. Scheuch (Hrsg), Edition Interfrom, Zürich, pp 486-499

Zygmunt, Joseph F. (1972)
When Prophecies Fail.
American Behavioral Scientist
16(2)245-267.

Idem (1977)
Jehovah's Witnesses in the USA: 1942-1976.
Social Compass
24(1)44-57.

Idem (1981)
Prophetic Failure and Chiliastic Identity: The Case of Jehovah's Witnesses.American Journal of Sociology 76:926-948. [Tevens verschenen in Religieuze Bewegingen, L.G. Jansma & P. Schulten (red), pp 195-220. Den Haag, Mouton, 1981].

Zylberberg, J. (1996)
Domestication, sacralisation, instrumentalisation de la sexualité: le cas des Temoins de Jehovah et des Hassidim. [or: The Regulation by religion of nature and the body]
Social Compass,
43(1):67-80.

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