Sect-State Relations: Accounting for the Differing Trajectories of Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses

Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses share common roots; both began as apocalyptic sects with premillennial expectations; both rejected political participation as contaminating and distracting from their God-given purposes; both expected to be the object of persecution from the state;...

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Main Author: Lawson, Ronald (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford Univ. Press 1995
In: Sociology of religion
Year: 1995, Volume: 56, Issue: 4, Pages: 351-377
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