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.

The “World” Concept Among Jehovah's Witnesses

1946 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-140
Author(s):  
Theodore W. Sprague
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
The World ◽  
World Concept

Various concepts bearing the label of “the world” have held an important place among the categories in terms of which men of many times and places have organized their experience. The present article attempts a case study of a single one of these — that developed by Jehovah's witnesses.

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 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.

Restrictive Clauses In International Arbitration Treaties

1913 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Wehberg
Keyword(s):  
Peace Movement ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
World Peace ◽  
International Arbitration ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Stages Of Growth ◽  
The World

Until the great goal of the peace movement, that is to say, the world peace treaty without reservation of any kind and extending to all nations, shall at some future time have been concluded, two periods in the development of arbitration, each of which is in turn marked by three successive stages of growth, are clearly discernible. The first embraces the development of special treaties; the second that of the world treaty. In point of time, these two periods follow one another; yet the world treaty is ushered in even before the special treaty has reached its highest stage.

Message to the World

2018 ◽  
pp. 261-264
Author(s):  
Abubakar Shekau
Keyword(s):  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

(1 OCTOBER 2012) [Trans.: Abdulbasit Kassim] Available at: https://videos.files.wordpress.com/DBYgNcIP/imc481m-abc5ab-bakr-shekau-22a-message-to-the-world22_std.mp4 In this video, Shekau delivered three concise messages to the government. He reiterated the group’s commitment to retribution against blasphemy of the Prophet Muhammad. He also threatened to attack the wives of Nigerian security officials because of the arrests of the Boko Haram members’ wives, and finally, he denied any negotiations or signing of a peace treaty with the government. It is important to mention that before this video, Shekau had previously delivered a 30-minute video on 5 August 2012 (this video could no longer be accessed), in which he reiterated a similar message that his group would not negotiate with the government, and demanded that the Nigerian president convert to Islam...

The War Prevention Policy of the United States

1928 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank B. Kellogg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

It has been my privilege during the past few months to conduct on behalfof the Government of the United States negotiations having for their object the promotion of the great ideal of world peace. Popular and governmental interest in the realization of this ideal has never been greater than at the present time. Ever since the World War, which spelled death to so many millions of men, spread desolation over so much of the Continent of Europe and shocked and imperiled neutral as well as belligerent nations, the minds of statesmen and of their peoples have been more and more concerned with plans for preventing the recurrence of such a calamity.

scholarly journals Constellation names in Ukrainian translations of the Bible

Movoznavstvo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 313 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
L. F. Fomina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
Clerical Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Times ◽  
Xix Century

The article explores the names of The Great Bear, Orion and the star constellation of Pleiades in the eight full translations of the Bible into the Ukrainian language of XIX–XXI c. Besides the Introduction and the Brief summary of the Ukrainian translations history, the article is made up of three sections. In the first section we analyze the ancient Hebrew names, such as Ash, Kima and Kesil, which are found in the translation by Patriarch Philaret (Denysenko) of the Synodic Bible (1876), and also in the New World Translation, made by the religious society “Jehovah’s Witnesses”. The second chapter focuses on the folk Ukrainian names, also typical for the whole Slavic world, such as Viz, Volosozhar, Kvochka, Kosari, used in the first full translation of the Bible into Ukrainian — Kulish᾽s Bible, which, by its authority, has created a certain tradition, proclaiming the authenticity and comprehensiveness of the Ukrainian language, and has become the standard, later followed by Ivan Ogiyenko and Ivan Khomenko. The third section is dedicated to such Graecisms as Pleiads, Orion, Arcturus, being equivalents for the nominations, presented in the protograph Septuaginta, found in the translation by Father Raphael. The author comes to the conclusion that all the translators in their clerical work aimed to make the astronomic names available and understandable to the orthodox reader of the biblical texts, but for each period of time this aim was achieved differently: if for the XIX century such understandable ones were folk names, in XX and XXI centuries they have been forgotten and replaced by the more familiar Greek-originated and common The Great Bear, Orion and Pleiads. This concerns also the translation of the Ostrog Bible, whose astronomic names had been formed in the times of the first Slavic enlighteners Cyril and Methodius and have become too archaic for our times. The author states that different ethno-cultures have been reflected in the astronomical names: Judaic cosmonymy is more of the anthropomorphic character, while Slavic, including the Ukrainian one, reflects the villatic view to the world and the sky of stars.

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