@wasblind
i am quite familiar with JW's history, and i am aware of the DVD. i am not asking to educate me on the basic regurgitated WT lecture of the history of JW's. this is an undergraudate research project, not a middle school essay.
and what's with the personal attacks? if this doesn't interest you --leave.
i don't understand why people have to come on here and incite angst with inflammatory comments.
@leolaia
"ad no hesitation in supporting a bill in Congress (H.R. 7986) that specifically was written to protect his rights under the FCC."
Fantastic! This is the type of fascinating information I am looking for. I will research this further.
Great book recommendations, although I have read all of them except A People for his Name. I am unfamiliar with this book, I will have to check it out. I loved Penton's Third Reich. That was the second book (the first being Crisis) I read about JW's which was not published by the WT. Rutherford's "Declaration of Facts" and the circumstances which surrounded it are so interesting, and shocking! I tried to have my mom read it but after the first chapter she refused to continue.
I enjoy Penton's work because he is not anti-Witness, he is not pro-Witness. He simply relays the facts, and the reader is left to decide. This is how I am approaching my thesis.
@GLT
Great links! I love the perspectives. I indeed plan on writing the following sections of my thesis based on how various other groups interpretat JW's. What I wish to include is how the WT sees JW's, how individual JW's see other JW's, how active JW's see ex-JW's, and how behavioral scientists and Witnesses who have defected from the organization see JW's.
A lot of lenses to view JW's, and they will all likely have their own contingencies.