This examination of Witness iconography provides an interesting index by which to observe the evolving international and multiethnic self-consciousness of the Watchtower Society. Read the rest »

Since their origins in late nineteenth-century America, the Jehovah’s Witnesses have evolved into a well-defined and efficiently organized religious group of global proportions. Recent Society statistics indicate that less than one fourth of contemporary Witnesses live in the country of the movement’s birth; the Society now claims a world-wide core membership of over four million. Read the rest »

Witness discourse is heavily jargonized; it is filled with “buzz words” that immediately differentiate themselves from both the outside world and from other Christian groups. Read the rest »