A Qualitative Analysis of the Jehovah\u27s Witnesses: The Rhetoric, reality, and religion in the Watchtower Society

Jehovah’s Witnesses are one of the most persecuted religious groups in the world and the most persecuted Christian organization in the 20th century. How the Witnesses shape their response to persecution is invariably associated with the social reality they construct in their rhetorical practices. This is a descriptive analysis and interpretation of the social reality constructed by the discourse of the Jehovah\u27’ Witnesses, utilizing a qualitative-interpretive approach for exploration into a social reality. The purpose is to determine how the textual and contextual reality of Jehovah’s Witnesses influences their lives and courses of action, how discursive practices are fundamental to their understanding of themselves and others.https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/university-archives-msu-authors/1012/thumbnail.jp