- Summary
- The religious association of Jehovah's Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. How Jehovah's Witnesses found their way in these countries has depended upon the way this missionary association was treated by the majority of the non-Witness population, the government and established churches. In this respect, the history of Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe is also a history of the social constitution of these countries and their willingness to accept and integrate religious minorities. Jehovah's Witnesses faced suppression and persecution not only in dictatorships, but also in some democratic states. In other countries, however, they developed in relative freedom. How the different situations in the various national societies affected the religious association and what challenges Jehovah's Witnesses had to overcome- and still do in part even until our day- is the theme of this history volume.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016-<2018>
- Locale
- Europe
- Contents
-
V.1/1. Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Greece
v.1/2. Italy, Netherlands, Portugal
v.2. Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Romania, Scandinavia
V. 1/1. Introduction : Jehovah's Witnesses in western and southern Europe / Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stokłosa
A history of Jehovah's Witnesses in Belgium / Willy Fautré
Jehovah's Witnesses in twentieth-century France / Régis Dericquebourrg
"And suddenly the Germans were here" : the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in France and Luxembourg / Angela Nerlich
Jehovah's Witnesses in Greece : a history of endurance / Athanasios Reppas, Timotheos Sigalas
Jehovah's Witnesses during Franco's dictatorship / Katarzyna Stoklosa
v. 1/2. Jehovah's Witnesses : a century of suppression, growth and recognition / Paolo Piccioli & Max Wörnhard
True to their faith : the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Netherlands during World War II / Tineke Piersma
Jehovah's Witnesses during the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-1974) / Pedro Pinto
v. 2. Jehovah's Witnesses in northern Europe, Great Britain and Romania / Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stokłosa
Jehovah's Witnesses in Denmark and Norway / Birgitte Cosmus
Jehovah's Witnesses in Finland : in times of war and peace / Henning Gram Møller
Jehovah's Witnesses in Great Britain and Ireland / Gerhard Besier
Jehovah's Witnesses in twentieth-century Romania : between tolerance and repression / Corneliu Pintilescu
Romania against Jehovah's Witnesses in the Hungarian Autonomous Regioun : criminal proceedings in the cases of Ungvári, Fülöp and Dovács / Csongor Jánosi
Jehovah's Witnesses in Sweden : past and present / Bertil Persson
- Other Authors/Editors
- Besier, Gerhard, editor.
Stokłosa, Katarzyna, editor.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
V.1/1. Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Greece -- v.1/2. Italy, Netherlands, Portugal -- v.2. Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Romania, Scandinavia --
V. 1/1. Introduction : Jehovah's Witnesses in western and southern Europe / Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stokłosa -- A history of Jehovah's Witnesses in Belgium / Willy Fautré -- Jehovah's Witnesses in twentieth-century France / Régis Dericquebourrg -- "And suddenly the Germans were here" : the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in France and Luxembourg / Angela Nerlich -- Jehovah's Witnesses in Greece : a history of endurance / Athanasios Reppas, Timotheos Sigalas -- Jehovah's Witnesses during Franco's dictatorship / Katarzyna Stoklosa -- v. 1/2. Jehovah's Witnesses : a century of suppression, growth and recognition / Paolo Piccioli & Max Wörnhard -- True to their faith : the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Netherlands during World War II / Tineke Piersma -- Jehovah's Witnesses during the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-1974) / Pedro Pinto -- v. 2. Jehovah's Witnesses in northern Europe, Great Britain and Romania / Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stokłosa -- Jehovah's Witnesses in Denmark and Norway / Birgitte Cosmus -- Jehovah's Witnesses in Finland : in times of war and peace / Henning Gram Møller -- Jehovah's Witnesses in Great Britain and Ireland / Gerhard Besier -- Jehovah's Witnesses in twentieth-century Romania : between tolerance and repression / Corneliu Pintilescu -- Romania against Jehovah's Witnesses in the Hungarian Autonomous Regioun : criminal proceedings in the cases of Ungvári, Fülöp and Dovács / Csongor Jánosi -- Jehovah's Witnesses in Sweden : past and present / Bertil Persson --
