Jehovah's Witnesses

(noun)

A monotheistic and nontrinitarian Restoration Christian denomination founded in 1879 as a small Bible study group.

Related Terms

  • free exercise clause
  • strict scrutiny
  • Warren Court

Examples of Jehovah's Witnesses in the following topics:

  • Religion

    • Jehovah's Witness, Church of God, and Seventh Day Adventists are at the bottom of the income distribution, with $24,000, $26,000, and $31,000 respectively .
    • Religion is also linked with education. 72% of Unitarian and 67% of Hindu adherents are college graduates, while only 12% of Jehovah's Witness and 15% of Church of God members graduated from college.
    • America's top income bracket is more likely than other groups to be Jewish, while the lowest bracket is more likely to be Jehovah's Witnesses.
  • The Free Exercise Clause: Freedom of Religion

    • During the twentieth century, many major cases involving the Free Exercise Clause were related to Jehovah's Witnesses .
    • Many communities directed laws against the Witnesses and their preaching work.
    • The specific beliefs and practices (such as a belief in door-to-door proselytizing, depicted here) of the Jehovah's Witnesses has meant that Jehovah's Witnesses' litigation has played a key role in defining the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
  • Attempts to Improve Voter Turnout

    • For example, most Jehovah's Witnesses believe that they should not participate in political events.
    • In some countries with compulsory voting, Jehovah's Witnesses and others may be excused on these grounds.
    • For example, most Jehovah's Witnesses believe that they should not participate in political events.
    • In some countries with compulsory voting, Jehovah's Witnesses and others may be excused on these grounds.
  • The Social Gospel

    • Charles Taze Russell founded the Bible Students movement, which later split into the "Jehovah's Witnesses" of today.
  • Social Correlates of Religion

    • The median net worth of people believing in the Jewish religion is calculated at $150,890, while the median net worth of conservative Protestants (including Baptists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventists, and Christian Scientists) was found at $26,200.
  • Artificial Blood Substitutes

    • Oxygen-carrying blood substitutes also would become an alternative for those patients that refuse blood transfusions for religious or cultural reasons, such as Jehovah's Witnesses.
  • Progressivism and Religion

    • Charles Taze Russell Founded a Bible Student Institute with its later sect now known as The Jehovah's Witnesses.
  • The Holocaust

    • Other victims of Nazi crimes included ethnic Poles, Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs, other Slavs, Romanis, communists, homosexuals, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses and the mentally and physically disabled.
  • The Holocaust

    • Other victims of Nazi crimes included ethnic Poles, Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs, other Slavs, Romanis, communists, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and the mentally and physically disabled.
  • The Fifth Amendment

    • The right was asserted at grand jury or congressional hearings in the 1950s, when witnesses testifying before the House Committee on Un-American Activities or the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee claimed the right in response to questions concerning their alleged membership in the Communist Party.
    • Under the Red Scare hysteria at the time of McCarthyism, witnesses who refused to answer the questions were accused as "fifth amendment communists".
    • No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
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