The Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Colonial Angola (with a digression on the inception of Tokoism)
The Portuguese regime used many human resources in Angola to limit and outlaw the activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses. This study aims to understand to what extent the Witnesses’ concept of neutrality and the way they viewed secular authorities resulted in their becoming a target for the police author...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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Social sciences and missions
Year: 2015, Volume: 28, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 327-372 |
| Further subjects: | B
Angola
Témoins de Jehovah
Mouvement de la Tour de Garde
Kitawala
Tokoïsme
neutralité
B Angola Jehovah’s Witnesses Watch Tower Movements Kitawala Tokoism neutrality |
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| Summary: | The Portuguese regime used many human resources in Angola to limit and outlaw the activities of Jehovah’s Witnesses. This study aims to understand to what extent the Witnesses’ concept of neutrality and the way they viewed secular authorities resulted in their becoming a target for the police authorities in Angola, who did not tolerate the dissemination of ideologies which could challenge the sustainability of the colonial system. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1874-8945 |
| Contains: | In: Social sciences and missions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748945-02803015 |