This thorough Ph.D-dissertation can be considered the first comprehensive historiography of the fate of the Jehovah’s Witnesses (hereafter JW’s) in Germany during the Nazi-regime. Based on war records and complemented by interviews with JW survivors of concentration camps, the author presents an exhaustive study of a harrowing episode of religious persecution. Read more…

A historical analysis of famines, wars, pestilences, crime, and earthquakes to present a strong case that we live in one of the safest times in history. If Jesus really meant that he would return during a particularly dangerous time, we could be sure that he wouldn’t come now. Read more…

Recently, Rodney Stark and Lawrence Iannaccone advised social scientists of religion to spend more time studying the Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs). They accused their colleagues of systematically neglecting the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (WBTS) and its adherents. The membership of this more than 100-year-old religious movement may be highly visible in daily life, but it is practically ignored in journals and textbooks. Read more…