scholarly journals The Contradiction of the Presence of Jehovah’s Witnesess as Christian Denomination in Yogyakarta

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Arifuddin Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
Religious Sect ◽  
The Government ◽  
Christian Denomination

<p><em>Th</em><em>e Presence of Jehovah’s Witnesses which has contradictory concepts has harassed mostly Christian people, but it attracts many people to join this group. Even nowadays this denomination has a significant progress in number of population. This research is aimed to find the answer of the above problem and to describe about whether Jehovah’s Witnesses as a Christian denomination or religious sect in which its existence are opposed by Christian community in general. Subject of this research is focused on Jehovah’s Witnesses in Yogyakarta.   This Christian denomination becomes an international religious movement and has been assured in the 1945 Constitution as well as gets recognition from the government as a religious organization who has equal rights. In Yogyakarta, this group is also accepted; this is a picture of Yogyakarta as a multicultural city, and a town with high tolerance. In contrast, other Christian’s denominations have rejected this sect because it has different basic theology. The emergence of new denominations is caused by the absence of limitation in this open room. Therefore, it needs a “re-thinking” whether to leave this phenomenon free or to create a rule to control this situation so as to create harmony in managing religious life.</em></p>

scholarly journals SEKTE KEAGAMAAN DI LINGKUNGAN PENGIKUT KRISTIANI

Tsaqofah ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Ahmad Jais
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
West Java ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
Religious Sect ◽  
Religious Sects

Religion is considered as an answer to the weakening belief in modernization because modernization is considered to have a negative and destructive impact on human existence as evidenced by the increase in spiritualism among religious followers. The revival of religious spiritualism is not in conventional religions but there is a tendency to enter into spiritual schools, cults and religious sects. Likewise for Christian adherents in Bandung City, West Java. There are several reasons why the author should appoint a religious sect in the Christian Community of Bandung City because Bandung is the center of the movement of Jehovah's Witnesses for seven (7) cities in West Java, so they often mention his movement with the Jehovah's Witnesses or known as JW 07.

scholarly journals Institutionalization of Protestantism as a way out

2005 ◽  
pp. 238-261
Author(s):  
Petro Yarotskiy ◽  
Yu.Ye. Reshetnikov
Keyword(s):  
Religious Organization ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Extended Analysis

The study of the current state and tendencies of the development of the traditional trends of late Protestantism in Ukraine - Baptism, Adventism and Pentecostalism, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses during 1999-2005 made it possible, in our opinion, to be scientifically valuable and relevant to the public in these confessions. generalizations and conclusions. At the same time, in our study, they have both a universal character for all four of these denominations, as well as a specific context in the form of an extended analysis of the nature of theological, doctrinal, institutionalization changes that have taken place in the past 15 years in particular in Ukrainian Baptism and the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses. Adventism was preserved somewhat during this period.

Familial Antecedents and the Choice of a New Religious Movement: Which Person in Which Religious Group?

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sussan Namini ◽  
Sebastian Murken
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
New Members ◽  
Family Experiences ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
Order Position ◽  
Loss Of A Parent ◽  
Early Family

Based on the idea of a person-religion fit, this study deals with the role of early familial antecedents for choosing a new religious movement (NRM). New members of three NRMs in Germany (a Pentecostal parish, the New Apostolic Church, Jehovah's Witnesses; N = 71) were compared to each other in regard to the variables of loss of a parent, number of siblings, and birth order position. Statistical analysis revealed differences between the three groups regarding loss of a parent and trends for the number of siblings. The most striking finding was that 43 percent of the new New Apostolic members had lost their father (compared to 10 percent of the Pentecostals and 23 percent of Jehovah's Witnesses). Differences between the groups are discussed with a focus on the groups' specific structures and theologies. Overall, the idea of a person-religion fit proved to be useful for the study of biographical variables, although theoretical and empirical problems of the fit model still need to be solved. Further research on early family experiences and person-religion fit is encouraged. The need to investigate coping-related aspects is emphasized.

scholarly journals When Prophecy Adapts

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-51
Author(s):  
Venke Sande Mikkelsen
Keyword(s):  
Religious Group ◽  
Religious Organization ◽  
Implicit Assumption ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Over Time

Jehovah’s Witnesses is often presented as a special religious group, one who has preached the imminence of the end of the world for an exceptional long amount of time. The implicit assumption in this statement, is also this article’s hypothesis: an imminent eschatological expectation will, over time, create an explanatory problem, where religions, for the sake of their own survival, must revise and adapt their eschatological expectations. This article examines this hypothesis by analysing the eschatological expectations presented in Jehovah’s Witnesses magazine The Watchtower, from 1985 through 2015. With the use of Roy Rappaports theory, supplemented with some new terms to make the theory fit the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses, it analyses the developments and adaptations in Jehovah’s Witnesses eschatological doctrines, and shows numerous signs of a religious organization that may be headed towards great changes in the immanent character of its eschatological beliefs.

scholarly journals Organization and Running of the National Plebiscite for Peace in Opole Voivodeship

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Dawid
Keyword(s):  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
The World ◽  
Radio Systems ◽  
The Government

The National Plebiscite for Peace took place in Poland between 17 and 22 May 1951 under the auspices of the Polish Committee of the Defenders of Peace. The campaign aimed to gather signatures under the Berlin Appeal announced by the World Peace Council as regards signing the Peace Treaty between five world powers. Voting was preceded by an intensive propaganda campaign in defence of peace and condemning “warmongers”. In Opole Voivodeship, analogically to the whole country, numerous peace committees came into existence before the plebiscite. A group of about 40,000 activists were recruited. Many gatherings, mass meetings and demonstrations were organized. Propaganda was conducted by means of press, film, radio and radio systems. To celebrate the plebiscite, production commitments were undertaken and special decorations prepared. In Opo­le Voivodeship 99.5 per cent of people qualified for voting submitted cards with signatures as part of the Appeal of the World Peace Council. The few refusals came mainly from Jehovah’s Witnesses and native inhabitants who declared themselves Germans or applied for departure and permanent stay in Germany. The campaign’s objective was to indicate sources of threats of war and methods for the maintenance of peace. Moreover, the campaign was to cause an increase in social acceptance of the authorities and the programme of political and economic changes being implemented by the government. The results of these efforts turned out to be temporary.

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