The Othering and Resilience of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Soviet and Contemporary Lithuania
Social research data shows that Jehovah’s Witnesses experience social ostracism, distancing, marginalization, and labeling in contemporary Lithuania. This article searches for an explanation for these public attitudes by applying a sociohistorical approach to the analysis of the processes of otherin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Numen
Year: 2023, Volume: 70, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 163-183 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lithuania
/ Jehovah's Witnesses
/ Othering
/ Exclusion
/ Resilience (Personality trait)
/ Religious minority
/ History 1912-2023
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AF Geography of religion CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBK Europe (East) KDH Christian sects |
| Further subjects: | B
post-Communist society
B Public attitudes B religion and state relations B communist regime B Jehovah’s Witnesses B Othering B Resilience |
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