Bibliography of Jehovah's Witnesses

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Jehovah's Witnesses
Overview Organizational structure Governing Body Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society Corporations History Bible Student movement Leadership dispute Splinter groups Doctrinal development Unfulfilled predictions Demographics By country
Beliefs Practices God's name 144,000 Salvation Eschatology Faithful and discreet slave Memorial of Jesus' Death Blood Discipline Hymns Literature The Watchtower Awake! New World Translation Bibliography Places Kingdom Hall Gilead School
People Watch Tower presidents W. H. Conley C. T. Russell J. F. Rutherford N. H. Knorr F. W. Franz M. G. Henschel D. A. Adams R. L. Ciranko Formative influences William Miller Henry Grew G. W. Stetson George Storrs N. H. Barbour J. N. Darby Notable former members R. V. Franz O. R. Moyle Notable scholars George Chryssides James Penton Zoe Knox
Criticism Handling child sex abuse Unfulfilled predictions
Opposition Persecution in Nazi Germany Supreme Court cases by country
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This is a bibliography of works on the Jehovah's Witnesses.^[1][2][3]

• Stroup, Herbert (1945). The Jehovah's Witnesses.^[4]
• Pike, Royston (1954). Jehovah's Witnesses: Who They Are, What They Teach, What They Do. London: Watts.
• Cole, Marley (1955). Jehovah's Witnesses: The New World Society.^[4]
• Whalen, William Joseph (1962). Armageddon around the corner: A report on Jehovah's Witnesses. J. Day Co. ASIN B0007DXV5Q. OCLC 1261733.
• Rogerson, Alan (1969). Millions Now Living Will Never Die: A Study of Jehovah's Witnesses. Constable. ISBN 978-0094559400.
• Beckford, James (1975). The Trumpet of Prophecy.
• Bergman, Jerry (1984). Jehovah's Witnesses and Kindred Groups: A Historical Compendium and Bibliography. Garland Publishing. ISBN 9780824091095.
• Kaplan, William (1989). State and Salvation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5842-6.
• Curry, Melvin (1992). The Millenarian World of Watch Tower.
• Crompton, Robert (1996). Counting the Days to Armageddon. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. ISBN 0-227-67939-3.^[2][3]
• Jehovah's Witnesses—Proclaimers of God's Kingdom. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York & International Bible Students Association. 1993. ASIN B0012ZL9IO.
• Bergman, Jerry (1999). Jehovah's Witnesses: A Comprehensive and Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Bibliographies and Indexes in Religious Studies (Book 48) (Annotated ed.). Greenwood. ISBN 978-0313305108.
• Gruss, Edmond C. (2001). Jehovah's Witnesses : their claims, doctrinal changes, and prophetic speculation : what does the record show?. Fairfax, VA: Xulon Press. ISBN 9781931232302.
• Holden, Andrew. Jehovah's Witnesses: Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement New York: Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0415266092^[2]
• Gruss, Edmond C. (2003). The Four Presidents of the Watch Tower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses): The Men and the Organization They Created. Xulon Press. ISBN 9781594671319.
• Daschke, Dereck; Ashcraft, W. Michael (2005). "Chapter 14: Jehovah's Witnesses". New Religious Movements. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0814707029.
• Wills, Tony (2006). A People for His Name: A History of Jehovah's Witnesses and an Evaluation (2nd ed.). ISBN 978-1-4303-0100-4.
• Knocking (2006), film about legal challenges faced by Jehovah's Witnesses
• Chryssides, George D. (2008). Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses. Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810860742.
• Chryssides, George D. (2009). The A to Z of Jehovah's Witnesses. The A to Z Guide Series. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810868915.
• Schulz, B. W.; de Vienne, R. M. (2009). Nelson Barbour: The Millennium's Forgotten Prophet. Fluttering Wings Press. ASIN B003B4A6N8.
• Schulz, B. W. (2014). A Separate Identity: Organizational Identity Among Readers of Zion's Watch Tower: 1870-1887. ISBN 978-1304969408.
• Chryssides, George D. (2016). Jehovah's Witnesses: Continuity and Change. Routledge New Religions. Routledge. ISBN 9781409456087.^[4]
• Knox, Zoe (2018). Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World: From the 1870s to the Present. Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137396044.
• Schulz, B. W. (2020). A Separate Identity: Organizational Identity Among Readers of Zion's Watch Tower: 1870-1887. Vol. 2.
• Chryssides, George (2022). Jehovah's Witnesses: A New Introduction. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-3501-9089-4.

• Schnell, William J. 30 Years a Watchtower Slave. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1956, 1971, reprinted 2001. ISBN 0-8010-6384-1 ISBN 978-0-8010-6384-8^[2]
• Macmillan, A. H. (1957). Faith on the March. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 9785872321002. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
• Schnell, William J. Jehovah's Witnesses' Errors Exposed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, [ca. 1980], cop. 1959. N.B.: First published in 1959 under the title: Into the Light of Christianity. ISBN 0-8010-8074-6
• Stevenson, W. C. (1967). Year of Doom — 1975: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses. London: Hutchinson. Retrieved 5 January 2018. In 1968 the book was entitled Inside Story of Jehovah's Witnesses and released by Hart Publishing Company of New York City.
• Gruss, Edmond Charles (October 1970). Apostles of Denial: An Examination and Expose of the History, Doctrines and Claims of the Jehovah's Witnesses (6th Printing ed.). Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co. ISBN 978-0875523057.
• Denscher, Ted (1974). An Alarming Situation for Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Literature Crusade.
• Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti (1980). Visions of Glory: A History and a Memory of Jehovah's Witnesses (Abridged ed.). London: Hale. ISBN 0-7091-8013-6. Originally published in New York by Simon and Schuster in 1978
• Chretien, Leonard; Chretien, Marjorie (1990). Witnesses of Jehovah. Monarch Pubns. ISBN 978-1854240729.^[3]
• Reed, David A. (1996). Answering Jehovah's Witnesses: Subject by Subject. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books. ISBN 080105317X. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
• Hewitt, Joe (1997). I Was Raised a Jehovah's Witness. Kregel Publications ISBN 0-8254-2876-9
• Penton, M. James (1997). Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses (Second ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-7973-3. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
• Stafford, Greg (1998). Jehovah's Witnesses Defended: An Answer to Scholars and Critics.
• Jonsson, Carl O. (1998, 2004). The Gentile Times Reconsidered: Chronology & Christ's Return. Commentary Press ISBN 0-914675-06-0 ^[3]
• Evert, Jason (2001). Answering Jehovah's Witnesses. San Diego, CA: Catholic Answers. ISBN 1888992212. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
• Kostelniuk, James (2001). Wolves Among Sheep: The True Story of Murder in a Jehovah’s Witness Community. HarperCollins Publishers Canada. ISBN 978-0-00-639107-4
• Stafford, Greg (2002). Three Dissertations on the Teachings of Jehovah's Witnesses.
• Franz, Raymond. Crisis of Conscience. Commentary Press. 420 pages. Hardback ISBN 0-914675-24-9. Paperback ISBN 0-914675-23-0. 4th edition (June 2002)^[3]
• Castro, Joy (2005). The Truth Book: Escaping a Childhood of Abuse Among Jehovah's Witnesses. Arcade Publishing. ISBN 978-1559707879.
• King, Robert (2005). Jehovah Himself Has Become King. AuthorHouse (First Edition) ISBN 978-1-4208-5498-5
• Franz, Raymond (2007). In Search of Christian Freedom (Second ed.). Atlanta: Commentary Press. ISBN 978-0-914675-17-4. Originally published in 1991. ISBN 0914675141.
• Rodriguez, Daniel (2011). Winning the Witnesses. Chick Publications. ISBN 9780758908483. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
• Gaskill, Alonzo L. (2016). Know Your Religions Volume 3: A Comparative Look at Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. Cedar Fort. ISBN 9781462127092. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
• Andrews, Edward D. (2017). Investigating Jehovah's Witnesses: Why 1914 Is Important to Jehovah's Witnesses. Christian Publishing House. ISBN 978-1945757518. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
• "The Jehovah's Witnesses". Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath. Season 3. 2018.
• Vice Versa: Crusaders (2021), film by Aaron Kaufman about sexual abuse within the group^[5]

• King, Christine Elizabeth (1983), The Nazi State and the New Religions: Five Case Studies in Non-Conformity. ISBN 0-889-468656
• Yonan, Gabriele. Jehovah's Witnesses – Victims under Two German Dictatorships (1933-1945, 1949-1989). Numinos. 1999.
• Hesse, Hans, ed. (30 November 2002). Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi-Regime. Berghahn Books. ISBN 3861087502.
• Penton, James (2004). Jehovah's Witnesses and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-8678-0.
• Garbe, Detlef (2008). Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-20794-3.
• Rammerstorfer, Bernhard (2013). Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man. XLIBRIS. 30 December 2013. ISBN 978-1493157815.
• Reynaud, Michel; Graffard, Sylvie (29 May 2001). The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis: Persecution, Deportation, and Murder, 1933-1945. Cooper Square Press. ISBN 081541076X.

• McEwan, Ian (2004). The Children Act. Nan A. Talese. ISBN 978-0385539708.
• Mathenia, Anthony (2012). Paradise Earth: Day Zero. Curiosity Quills Press. ISBN 978-1620071434.
• LoveGrove, Jennifer (2013). Watch How We Walk. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1770411272.
• Apostasy (2017), British drama film