Univ., Diss--Tübingen, 2002.

Orientador: Ronaldo Romulo Machado de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T14:31:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_GleicyMaillyda_M.pdf: 5323275 bytes, checksum: 8a4cc046fc778acfa53d9ada7240009a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: As Testemunhas de Jeová, representadas juridicamente pela Sociedade Torre de Vigia, se formaram nos Estados Unidos, em 1870, à luz de movimentos protestantes fundamentalistas que emergiram no mesmo período, e se consolidaram a partir de uma doutrina rigorosa, fortemente restritiva. Esta pesquisa busca compreender, considerando a dinâmica interna deste grupo, o que faz com que ele se mantenha coeso numa comunidade aparentemente tão restritiva no contexto do campo religioso brasileiro, cuja característica, como inúmeras análises vêm demonstrando, é a intensa flexibilidade entre doutrinas e práticas religiosas. Ao analisar e dar visibilidade aos meios dos quais lançaram mão para crescerem, se organizarem, se expandirem e se manterem no campo religioso, fica evidente a tensão entre mobilidade e radicalidade. Desse modo, termos redutores como "fundamentalismo" e "proselitismo" são colocados em perspectiva, considerando importantes dimensões de conflito que, por fim, inserem as Testemunhas de Jeová nesta dinâmica. É a capacidade de conviverem, rivalizarem, cooptarem, reinventando suas crenças e práticas quando necessário, que torna o grupo flexível de um modo bastante particular, ainda que pareça rígido, onde as mudanças tornam-se recursos importantes para manterem suas crenças e distinção em meio às transformações pelas quais tem passado o campo religioso / Abstract: The Jehovah's Witnesses, legally represented by the Watch Tower Bible Society, were formed in the United States, in 1870, in the light of fundamentalists protestants movements which had emerged at the same period, and solidified themselves through a rigorous doctrine, strongly restrictive. This research investigates, considering its internal dynamics, what sustains group cohesion in a community apparently so restrictive in Brazilian religious field context, whose characteristic, as many analyses hás demonstrated, is its intense flexibility between several doctrines and religious practices. By analyzing and giving visibility to the means from which they had resorted for develop, organize, expand and support themselves in the religious field, it is evident the tension between mobility and radicalism. Thereby, limited terms as "fundamentalism" and "proselytism" are placed in perspective, considering important conflict dimensions that, finally, insert the Jehovah's Witnesses in this dynamics.It is the capacity of live together, contend, coopt, reinventing their beliefs and practices whenever necessary, that turns the group flexible in a very particular way, even if it seems strict, where changes become important resources to sustain their beliefs and distinctiveness amid the modifications by which the religious field has been crossing over / Mestrado / Mestre em Antropologia Social

Esse trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a ação das Testemunhas de Jeová, seita religiosa milenarista norte-americana, em São Paulo, entre os anos de 1930 e 1954. Em meio aos governos de Vargas e Dutra, à Segunda Guerra Mundial e ao início da Guerra Fria, a \"Sociedade Torre de Vigia de Bíblias e Tratados\" - nome jurídico adotado pelas Testemunhas de Jeová no Brasil - teve suas publicações confiscadas, membros presos e seu registro de atividades proscrito no país entre 1940 e 1947. Sob alegações diversas e contraditórias, as Testemunhas de Jeová foram acusadas de propagandear o nazismo, o fascismo, o anarquismo e o comunismo, em vista de proclames como a não prestação de serviço militar obrigatório, não saudação de símbolos nacionais, não transfusão de sangue e de seu proselitismo anticlerical, feito de porta em porta pelas ruas da cidade. Acreditando-se \"missionários pioneiros\" em meio a uma realidade supersticiosa católica, as Testemunhas de Jeová reeditaram no Brasil, a partir da década de 20, o mesmo discurso utilizado pelos puritanos ingleses que colonizaram a América no século XVII: tratavam-se do \"povo eleito\" de Deus na Terra que se dizia em combate com organizações \"satânicas\" e \"obscurantistas\", como a Igreja Católica. A despeito do estreitamento das relações entre Brasil e Estados Unidos no final dos anos 30, de nossa definitiva entrada na Segunda Guerra Mundial ao lado dos Aliados, e da cooperação verificada entre os dois países no período pós-guerra na luta contra o comunismo, as Testemunhas de Jeová, uma organização religiosa norteamericana, foram perseguidas no país, talvez por também reeditarem no Brasil a retórica mítica de construção dos Estados Unidos, de sua defesa de liberdade de culto e do sistema democrático de governo - em oposição ao Catolicismo e ao subdesenvolvimento brasileiros. Neste sentido, buscamos perceber até que ponto a perseguição policial e judicial empreendida contra essa organização religiosa, que contava com menos de 1000 adeptos até 1947, encontrava eco no estreitamento de interesses entre a Igreja Católica e o Estado brasileiros. / This study focuses on the action of the Jehovah\'s Witnesses, a North American millenary religious sect, in São Paulo, between 1930 and 1954. During Vargas and Dutra\'s governments, the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War, the Watchtower Society (\"Sociedade Torre de Vigia de Bíblias e Tratados\") - juridical name adopted in Brazil by the Jehovah\'s Witnesses - publications had been confiscated, its members had been arrested and the registry of activities had been exiled from the country between 1940 and 1947. Under various and contradictory claims, the Jehovah\'s Witnesses had been charged with advertising the nazism, fascism, anarchism and communism, based on the lack of rendering obligatory military service, lack of salutation of the national symbols, lack of blood transfusion and anticlergy proselytism, made everywhere in the city. Believing that they were the \"first missionaries\" on a superstitious Catholic reality, the Jehovah\'s Witnesses reissued in Brazil, from the twenties on, the same speech that was used by the English Puritan who settled America on the 17th century: they were the \"elected people\" by God on Earth and told they were here to struggle with the \"devilish\" and \"obscurantist\" organizations, such as the Catholic Church. Despite the narrowing between Brazilian and American relationship at the end of the thirties, our real entrance at the Second World War with the Allied and the checked help between both countries at the post-war period against the Communism, the Jehovah\'s Witnesses, a North American organization, had been chased in the country, maybe because they also reissued in Brazil the mythical rhetorical of the USA construction, in the defense of cult freedom and democratic system - different from the Brazilian Catholicism and undergrown. Based on these, we intend to see at which extent the judicial and political chasing against this religious organization, which had less than followers until 1947, found the echo on the benefits narrowing between the Catholic Church and the Brazilian states.

The purpose of this essay is to examine both the questions that are asked, and the answers that are given in two episode of Tänk till- våga fråga? These questions and answers will first be thematized and then analyzed based on the concept of religious literacy. The goal is to be able to broaden the knowledge about which levels of religious literacy are shown in the program. The methodological approach is qualitative content and thematic analysis which codes and thematizes questions and answers from young people in the episode. The essay analyze a program called ”Tänk till-våga fråga” from UR. The research questions for this study are: What recurring themes can be identified in the viewer`s questions and the participants answers, in the series ”Saker du aldrig vågat fråga”? How can these themes be understood as expressions of the three levels of religious literacy described by Löfstedt & Sjöborg? The theoretical starting points used to answer the study's purpose and reserach questions were Löfstedt and Sjöborg (2019) descriptions of religious literacy (religionslitteracitet). The results showed that the viewer's and the participants factual knowledge differed, as the viewer had an outsider's perspective on the subject versus the participants who had an insider's perspective on hijab and Jehovah's Witnesses. The results also showed that factual knowledge influenced the understanding and ciritical ability in young people.

This thesis uses principles from Burke's Rhetoric of Identification to examine how apocalyptic prophecies foster and maintain an apocalyptic group identity. Jehovah's Witnesses were used as a sample apocalyptic group because they comprise a group with a heavy textual and symbolic focus on the apocalypse.

Thesis (doctoral)--Fernuniversität, Hagen, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

The Watch Tower movement was a millennial social movement which was popular in Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia, and the Belgian Congo, and in parts of the countries bordering these territories, between the two world wars. It derived its doctrine initially from the writings of Charles Russell, the founder of one of the largest sects of the twentieth century, the Jehovah's Witnesses. The African Watch Tower however was largely independent of the Jehovah's Witnesses, although this body attempted to establish its control in central Africa, and its ideology and organisation changed and developed in accordance with local conditions. While some similarities in the conditions of rapid urbanisation which surrounded the origins of the Jehovah's Witnesses in America, and the Watch Tower in Africa, may be discerned, its political and historical role was a very different one. Spread by labour migrants moving between employment centres and from the village to the urban compound, the Watch Tower contributed to the new forms of association which enabled workers to protest against their conditions of employment, and assisted in spreading a pan-Africanist consciousness which was a significant current in the development of anti-colonial nationalism. It was not only an urban movement, but also selectively influenced the countryside, where external factors and the nature of local social organisations were favourable. It spread rapidly, in a wide variety of forms, and with little formality regarding who was or was not a member, but retained a central core of ideas and an organisational structure, which allows the movement to be treated as a unity.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-08-05T12:11:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marco Antonio Simoes.pdf: 4771177 bytes, checksum: f7c09699a57b867df78eeb8250334377 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-05T12:11:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marco Antonio Simoes.pdf: 4771177 bytes, checksum: f7c09699a57b867df78eeb8250334377 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-17 / The objective of this paper is to analyze the confrontation occurred between the German Nazi Party and the religious group Jehovah's Witnesses, called at the time Bibelforschers (Bible Students). The group has positioned itself ideologically against the Nazi Party's proposals, and did so adamantly, that became the subject of an intensity of persecution proportionally higher than the other persecuted religious groups and banned by the regime, as will be shown. The research will examine the emergence and development of the group, emphasizing the establishment of the doctrines that made possible confrontation. Also it will examine the development of Nazi ideology in ways that opposed the position expressed by the group. About the Nazi party, it will still be analyzed as he himself being a religion. The strategies for survival adopted by other groups will also be studied for contextualization purposes. Finally, some illustrative facts of the conflict itself will be presented and analyzed, as a demonstration of the materialization of the ideological conflict. Although Jehovah's Witnesses have been studied in other ways, it is possible to see that the conflict of this group with the Nazi Party has been little studied in Brazil, perhaps because of being a small group in Germany in the period treated by this research. And when mentioned, it is usually under an aspect eminently historic. The purpose of this work is to identify the ideological causes of the conflict / O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o confronto ocorrido entre o Partido Nazista alemão e o grupo religioso Testemunhas de Jeová, chamados na época de Bibelforschers (Estudantes da Bíblia). O grupo posicionou-se ideologicamente contra as propostas do Partido Nazista, e o fez de maneira inflexível, a ponto de se tornar alvo de uma perseguição de intensidade proporcionalmente superior aos demais grupos religiosos perseguidos ou banidos pelo Regime, como será demonstrado. A pesquisa examinará o surgimento e desenvolvimento do grupo, com ênfase na constituição das doutrinas que possibilitaram o confronto. Também examinará o desenvolvimento da ideologia nazista, nos aspectos em que se opôs à posição manifesta pelo grupo. Sobre o partido nazista, ainda será feita uma análise como ele mesmo sendo uma religião. Estratégias de sobrevivência de outros grupos também serão estudadas como parâmetro de contextualização. Por fim, alguns fatos ilustrativos do conflito propriamente serão apresentados e analisados, como demonstração da materialização do embate ideológico. Embora as Testemunhas de Jeová tenham sido objeto de estudo sob outros aspectos, é possível constatar que o embate deste grupo com o Partido Nazista tem sido pouco abordado no Brasil, talvez devido a tratar-se de um grupo pequeno na Alemanha no período tratado nesta pesquisa. Ainda que o seja por vezes, o aspecto considerado é eminentemente histórico. O propósito deste trabalho é identificar e analisar as causas ideológicas do conflito

Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss. 2008 / Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-410).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Greifswald, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [891]-910) and index.