Submitted by Luis Ricardo Andrade da Silva (lrasilva@uefs.br) on 2015-07-31T23:55:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o de Mestrado Camila No?mia Rener Santos Bastos.pdf: 6882579 bytes, checksum: ca8c6d836537ed0a07eb8b476d607ba9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-31T23:55:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o de Mestrado Camila No?mia Rener Santos Bastos.pdf: 6882579 bytes, checksum: ca8c6d836537ed0a07eb8b476d607ba9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-09 / The present study analyzes the representations of family among Jehovah's Witnesses in the city of St. Stephen, Bahia, located between the hinterland and Rec?ncavo, 40 km from Feira de Santana, from 1970 to 2001. The time frame of the research is related the beginning of the proselytizing activities of the group and ends with the construction of Kingdom Hall Avenue Teixeira de Freitas, one of the main avenues of the city. The study aimed to examine the tensions and power struggles in the holy - estevense religious field , caused by the insertion of a new group , especially for the strong influence of Catholicism in society of this city. The main tenets of the group , the millenarian character, identity building of the faithful and a new world view guided on the ideas of Jehovah's Witnesses are also discussed in this dissertation. We also analyzed the present among Jehovah's Witnesses , Bible -centered , with well-defined gender roles and differences that manifest in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the group androcentric discourse, since women do not hold jobs, despite the strong performance of proselytism and in the same Hall of internal activities, such as attending meetings, cleaning, among others. In the family, gender inequalities are also present, because the man is the head of the family, " head " and the woman, her helper, submissive to him. This is the model family that Jehovah's Witnesses are intended to represented by them, which involves the construction of habitus. However, between discourse and practice are the experiences and experiences of individuals who appropriate this discourse. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar as representa??es sobre fam?lia entre as Testemunhas de Jeov? na cidade de Santo Estev?o, Bahia, localizada entre o sert?o e o rec?ncavo, a 40 km de Feira de Santana, entre 1970 a 2001. O recorte temporal da pesquisa est? relacionado ao come?o das atividades proselitistas do grupo e termina com a constru??o do Sal?o do Reino na Avenida Teixeira de Freitas, numa das principais avenidas da cidade. O trabalho se prop?s a analisar as tens?es e disputas de poder no campo religioso santo-estevense, causadas pela inser??o de um novo grupo, principalmente pela forte influencia do catolicismo na sociedade desta cidade. As principais doutrinas do grupo, o car?ter milenarista, a constru??o da identidade do fiel e de uma nova vis?o de mundo pautadas sobre as ideias das Testemunhas de Jeov? tamb?m s?o discutidas nesta disserta??o. Analisamos tamb?m o discurso androc?ntrico presente entre as Testemunhas de Jeov?, centrado na B?blia, com pap?is de g?nero bem definidos e diferencia??es que se manifestam na hierarquia eclesi?stica do grupo, pois as mulheres n?o exercem cargos, apesar da forte atua??o das mesmas no proselitismo e nas atividades internas do Sal?o, com assist?ncia ?s reuni?es, limpeza, entre outras. Na fam?lia, as desigualdades entre os sexos tamb?m se fazem presentes, pois o homem ? o chefe da fam?lia, ?a cabe?a? e a mulher, sua auxiliadora, submissa a ele. Este ? o modelo de fam?lia que as Testemunhas de Jeov? se prop?em, que visa a constru??o de habitus. No entanto, entre o discurso e a pr?tica existem as viv?ncias e experi?ncias dos sujeitos que se apropriam desse discurso.

abstract: This study investigated how young adults communicate their decision to religiously disaffiliate to their parents. Both the context in which the religious disaffiliation conversation took place and the communicative behaviors used during the religious disaffiliation conversation were studied. Research questions and hypotheses were guided by Family Communication Patterns Theory and Face Negotiation Theory. A partially mixed sequential quantitative dominate status design was employed to answer the research questions and hypotheses. Interviews were conducted with 10 young adults who had either disaffiliated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or the Watch Tower Society. During the interviews, the survey instrument was refined; ultimately, it was completed by 298 religiously disaffiliated young adults. For the religious disaffiliation conversation’s context, results indicate that disaffiliated Jehovah’s Witnesses had higher conformity orientations than disaffiliated Latter-day Saints. Additionally, disaffiliated Jehovah’s Witnesses experienced more stress than disaffiliated Latter-day Saints. Planning the conversation in advance did lead to the disaffiliation conversation being less stressful for young adults. Furthermore, the analysis found that having three to five conversations reduced stress significantly more than having one or two conversations. For the communicative behaviors during the religious disaffiliation conversation, few differences were found in regard to prevalence of the facework behaviors between the two groups. Of the 14 facework behaviors, four were used more often by disaffiliated JW than disaffiliated LDS—abuse, passive aggressive, pretend, and defend self. In terms of effectiveness, the top five facework behaviors were talk about the problem, consider the other, have a private discussion, remain calm, and defend self. Overall, this study begins the conversation on how religious disaffiliation occurs between young adults and their parents and extends Family Communication Patterns Theory and Face Negotiation Theory to a new context. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Communication 2015

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-02-17T12:19:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 suelyribeirobarra.pdf: 910454 bytes, checksum: 2efc2d35c3e1f7842dcca92e64dd93b3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-02-20T18:00:00Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 suelyribeirobarra.pdf: 910454 bytes, checksum: 2efc2d35c3e1f7842dcca92e64dd93b3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-20T18:00:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 suelyribeirobarra.pdf: 910454 bytes, checksum: 2efc2d35c3e1f7842dcca92e64dd93b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-08-26 / Este trabalho se propõe a pesquisar o processo de transformação da identidade a partir da conversão ao Movimento Religioso das Testemunhas de Jeová: um estudo dos conversos de duas Congregações de Juiz de Fora. Aborda inicialmente reflexões teóricas sobre o momento da pós-modernidade, a identidade e a diferença e um breve estudo sobre a conversão religiosa. Tenta mostrar a realidade das Testemunhas de Jeová a partir da visão do próprio movimento religioso. O objetivo da pesquisa é perceber o processo de construção da nova identidade dos conversos e como eles se harmonizam e se aceitam a partir da sua conversão. A visão geral do MRTJ foi desenvolvida sob a perspectiva das próprias Testemunhas de Jeová, dos seus registros e de uma análise da construção nova identidade a partir das narrativas destes mesmos atores sociais no seu próprio meio-ambiente. / This work aims to research the identity transformation process from the moment of the conversion to the Religious Movement of Jehovah's Witnesses: a study of converts from two Congregations in Juiz de Fora. It initially approaches theoretical reflections on the postmodernity moment, the identity and the difference as well as a brief study on the religious conversion. It intends to show Jehovah's Witnesses reality from the point of view of the religious movement itself. The objective of this research is to understand the construction process of their new identity, how they harmonize with other converts and how they accept each other from the moment of their conversion. The work was modeled from Jehovah's Witnesses perspective. It is a vision of the Religious Movement of Jehovah's Witnesses based on their records and an analysis of the new identity based on these social actors' narratives in their own social environment.

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur identiteten hos unga vuxna som vuxit upp inom Jehovas Vittnen påverkas av en uteslutning. Detta utifrån den sociala identitetsteorin och Marcia´s teori om identitetstatusarna i en identitetsutveckling. Studien var kvalitativ med semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta unga vuxna fd. Jehovas Vittnen som vuxit upp i organisationen. Den induktiva tematiska analysen gav tre huvudteman; In- och utgrupps tänkande; underordnande och lydnad samt begynnande distansering och uppvaknande. Ett av resultaten var att deltagarna hade lärt sig redan som barn ett in- och utgruppstänk. och att utifrån denna sociala identifiering begränsades deltagarnas umgänge, till att endast umgås med ingruppen och undvika att umgås med personer i utgruppen. Detta fick effekter vid uteslutning i uppbyggandet av nya sociala relationer, där de saknade referensramar om hur de skulle agera i vissa sammanhang, de visste inte vad som förväntades av dem i samhället, de saknade helhetsbilden av samhället och dess sociala samspel. / The purpose of the study was to examine how the identity of young adults raised within Jehovah's Witnesses is affected by exclusion. This is based on the social identity theory and Marcia’s theory of the identity statuses in an identity development. The study was qualitative with semi-structured interviews with eight young adults formerly. Jehovah's Witnesses who grew up in the organization. The inductive thematic analysis yielded three main themes; In- and out-group thinking; subordination and obedience as well as incipient distancing and awakening. One of the results was that the participants had already learned an in- and out-group thinking as children. and that on the basis of this social identification, the participants' contact was limited to only spending time with the ingroup and avoiding contact with people in the outgroup. This had the effect of exclusion in the building of new social relationships, where they lacked a frame of reference on how to act in certain contexts, they did not know what was expected of them in society, they lacked the overall picture of society and its social interaction.

The thesis deals with religious sects in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. Firstly, it describes new religious movements, which occurred in Czechoslovakia in the first half of the 20th century, especially Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventism, Mormonism and the others. The key theme of this thesis is the phenomenon of religious sects. It explores a procedure of the government, Communist party of Czechoslovakia and State Security. The thesis deals also with the conscientious objection in Czechoslovakia in the 1950s. In conclusion the thesis tries to describe the image of religious sects in newspapers. It draws from various primary sources (National Archives of the Czech Republic, Security Services Archive, Military History Archive) and from various historiographical and sociological literature.

In this diploma thesis the verbal persuasive devices typical of two new religious movements' texts (Jehovah's Witnesses and New Age) have been analysed, with regard to manipulation. Because of the interdisciplinary character of manipulation religion and sociological aspects in new religious movements section and logical, psychological and ethical aspects in manipulative argumentation section have been considered. It was found that the style of the analysed texts and its verbal persuasive devices differ from the field of religious communication only in few aspects from verbal persuasive devices of journalistic communication and that manipulative devices are partly acceptable with regard to the sources and methods involved in the texts, however, the field of quasiargumentation have been found outside acceptability.

Depuis leur fondation en 1870, les Témoins de Jéhovah ont connu une croissance spectaculaire jusqu’en 1995, dans les pays dont la religion dominante est le christianisme. Puis, un ralentissement progressif de leur croissance a été constaté au milieu des années 1990, en particulier dans les pays industrialisés. Par ailleurs, leur croissance a connu un succès inégal d’un pays à l’autre. Ainsi, en 2017, il y avait un Témoin de Jéhovah pour 50 habitants en Guadeloupe, un Témoin pour 112 habitants à la Barbade et un Témoin pour 263 habitants aux Etats-Unis. La présente recherche doctorale a étudié plusieurs facteurs de croissance, en empruntant les concepts des sociologues états-uniens Ryan Cragun et Ronald Lawson ainsi Rodney Stark et Lawrence Iannacone liant la croissance d’un groupe religieux à l’interaction entre l’offre religieuse qui est la sienne et la demande religieuse du pays où il s’est implanté. Une recherche documentaire a été effectuée passant en revue l’histoire et l’évolution de ce mouvement religieux. Puis, une méthode qualitative a été adoptée, à travers des entretiens menés auprès de dizaines de Témoins au cours de plusieurs années ainsi qu’une observation participante, afin de mieux connaître le mouvement, ses doctrines mais aussi la motivation des fidèles. Ensuite, une méthode quantitative a été appliquée à travers une enquête menée auprès de centaines de Témoins de Jéhovah à la Barbade en Guadeloupe et aux États-Unis d’Amérique. Les spécificités de ces trois pays expliquent en partie la différence de croissance constatées au sein du groupe religieux étudié. / Since their founding in 1870, Jehovah's Witnesses have experienced spectacular growth until 1995, in the country where Christianity predominates. A gradual slowdown in growth was then observed, particularly in the industrialized countries in the mid-1990s. Moreover, their growth has been successfully imbalanced from one country to another. Thus, in 2017, there was a Jehovah's Witness for 50 people in Guadeloupe, one for 112 people in Barbados and one for 263 in the United States.This PhD thesis examines several growth factors, borrowing from the concepts of American sociologists Ryan Cragun and Ronald Lawson as well as Rodney Stark and Lawrence Iannacone, linking the growth of a religious group to the interaction between religious offerings and religious demand. in the country where the religious group settled. A literature search was conducted to examine the history and evolution of this religious movement. In addition to that, a qualitative method was adopted in interviews with dozens of Witnesses over several years and with participant observation, in order to better understand the movement, its doctrines, but also the motivations of the members. Then, a quantitative method was applied to a survey of hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses in Barbados, in Guadeloupe and the United States of America. The specificities of these three countries partly explain the differences in growth observed in the religious group studied. / Depi fondasyon yo nan lane 1870, Temwen Jewova yo te gen yon kwasans espektakilè jiska 1995, nan peyi kote dominasyon relijyon se krisyanis la. Lè sa a, yon ralentissement gradyèl nan kwasans yo te obsève patikilyèman nan peyi yo endistriyalize nan mitan ane 1990 yo. Anplis, li te kwasans yo te dezekilibre siksè soti nan yon peyi a yon lòt. Kidonk, nan 2017, te gen yon Temwen Jewova pou 50 moun nan Gwadloup, yon Temwen pou 112 moun nan Barbad ak yon Temwen pou 263 moun nan Etazini yo.Rechèch doktora prezan an etidye plizyè faktè kwasans, prete konsèp sosyolojis ameriken Ryan Cragun ak Ronald Lawson ak Rodney Stark ak Lawrence Iannacone ki lye kwasans yon gwoup relijye nan entèraksyon ant òf relijye ki se li ak demann relijye nan peyi kote li te etabli tèt li. Yon rechèch literati te fèt revize istwa a ak evolisyon sa a mouvman relijye yo. Answit, yo te adopte yon metòd kalitatif, nan entèvyou ak plizyè douzèn Temwen sou plizyè ane ak yon obsèvasyon patisipan, pou pi byen konprann mouvman an, doktrin li yo, men tou motivasyon fidèl yo. Lè sa a, yon metòd quantitative te aplike nan yon sondaj sou dè santèn de Temwen Jewova nan Barbad nan Gwadloup ak nan Etazini. Espesifikite yo nan twa peyi sa yo eksplike an pati diferans nan kwasans obsève nan gwoup relijye etidye.

The aim of this essay is to examine the eucharist in three denominations of Christianity, namely Svenska kyrkan, Pingst and Jehovah’s witnesses. These groups are examined individually, followed by a comparison of the different views of the eucharist. The information the examination is based on are different official documents provided by the named denominations’ theologians and elders for both members of the church as well as the public. The comparison is followed by a discussion about the relationship between the denominations’ view on eucharist and their ecclesiology, i.e. their view of the church.    The results show that the differences between them are much due to the sources they use to support their claims as well as their individual history. The similarities are found to be due to a general desire to unite all members of the congregation and to let everyone take part in a collective connection with Christ regardless of whether or not the partakers roles in the church. The discussion about the relationship between the three denominations’ relationships between eucharist and ecclesiology show that the eucharist is a somewhat good representation of the general denominations’ views. This conclusion aligns with the view of Scott W. Bullard’s research about the relationship between the eucharist and the church, where the result is that the eucharist is a foundation of the church’s construction and organization.

The aim of this paper is to describe the contradictions of Christian denominations, not dogmatically doctrinal, but generally doctrinal, in terms of how they arise and how they impact the thinking within the respective groups. Two churches were selected for this comparison, the Catholic Church and Jehovah's Witnesses, as representatives of the denominations with the most notable differences. The initial starting point is the history of the two churches, which highlights the cultural and historical conditions under which the two churches were formed. Further work on two cases of conflict, the concept of the Holy Trinity and access to apostolic succession, discusses the basic argumentative practices that apply to both churches. This passage shows that on this level the difference between the two communities is only minimal, the procedures applied by both are consistent. The argument is followed by the interpretative part, which deals with the search for the causes of discrepancies in the diversity of interpretations of the Bible, which was published as a joint authority of both communities from previous argumentation analysis. Finally, this work describes how the differences resulting from different interpretations are involved in the daily life and organization of the Church. A different discourse...

Bien que présent dans les communautés autochtones au Canada depuis le début des années 1930, le jéhovisme chez les Autochtones au Canada n’a pourtant fait l’objet d’aucune étude ethnographique, sociologique ou historique. Ce mémoire a pour but de remédier à ce vacuum en proposant la première étude ethnographique des Témoins de Jéhovah chez les Autochtones au Canada. Plus précisément, cette recherche traite de la présence historique et actuelle des Témoins de Jéhovah dans la communauté anishinabe (algonquine) de Kitigan Zibi (Québec). À partir d’un terrain de recherche ‒ en ligne ‒ s’étant étalé sur une période de 10 mois, je retrace le développement du jéhovisme à Kitigan Zibi en plus de m’intéresser aux raisons pour une personne autochtone de devenir ‒ ou de rester ‒ Témoins de Jéhovah aujourd’hui, ou, à l’inverse, de ne pas devenir Témoins de Jéhovah. Mon analyse démontre que : 1) La conversion des premiers Anishinabeg au jéhovisme à Kitigan Zibi s’inscrit dans un contexte historique particulier (conflits avec les missionnaires oblats, rupture avec le territoire et début de travail salarié comme principale source de revenus des Anishinabeg); 2) De nos jours, la transmission intergénérationnelle de la religion joue un rôle prépondérant dans la reproduction des Témoins de Jéhovah à Kitigan Zibi; 3) La décision de devenir ou de rester Témoins de Jéhovah s’inscrit pleinement dans l’épistémologie algonquine; 4) Dans un contexte de concurrence avec d’autres mouvements religieux, le jéhovisme ne semble plus aujourd’hui répondre aux motivations que les Algonquins sont susceptibles d’avoir. / Although present in Aboriginal communities in Canada since the early 1930s, Jehovism among Aboriginal people in Canada has not yet been the subject of any ethnographic, sociological, or historical study. The purpose of this thesis is to remedy this vacuum by proposing the first ethnographic study of Jehovah's Witnesses among Aboriginal people in Canada. More specifically, this research deals with the historical and current presence of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Anishinabe (Algonquin) community of Kitigan Zibi (Quebec). From an online field of research spanning a period of 10 months, I trace the development of Jehovism in Kitigan Zibi in addition to exposing the reasons for an Indigenous person to become ‒ or to stay ‒ Jehovah's Witnesses today, or, conversely, not to become Jehovah's Witnesses. My analysis shows that: 1) the conversion of the early Anishinabeg to Jehovism at Kitigan Zibi takes place in a particular historical context (conflicts with oblate missionaries, rupture with the territory and the beginning of wage work as the main source of income for the Anishinabeg); 2) Nowadays, the intergenerational transmission of religion plays a major role in the reproduction of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kitigan Zibi; 3) The decision to become or remain Jehovah's Witnesses fits fully into Algonquin epistemology; 4) In a context of competition with other religious movements, Jehovism no longer seems to respond to the motivations that the Algonquins are likely to have.