Ronald L. Lawson Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Queens College – Papers on Seventh-day Adventism, with some comparisons with Jehovah’s Witnesses

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  slimboyfat

  Yes Ryan Cragun is very good. Here is another he wrote:

  https://www.ryantcragun.com/mormons-adventists-and-jehovahs-witnesses-three-american-originals-and-how-theyve-grown/
  

  Lawson also wrote an article decades ago demonstrating the differing trajectories of JWs and SDAs: SDAs have become a denomination of Christianity while JWs remain sectarian in character.

  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240592299_Sect-State_Relations_Accounting_for_the_Differing_Trajectories_of_Seventh-Day_Adventists_and_Jehovah's_Witnesses

  Their work is a good counter to Rodney Stark who at one time argued both JWs and Mormons were on course become major world religions in this century.

  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13537909708580796

  I know all these artilces are not accessible, sorry.
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  smiddy3

  Do the Assembly` s of God ,and the Christadelphians ,figure into this timeline as they all have similar belief systems .?

  Just asking .
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  slimboyfat

  There are only around 50,000 Christadelphians worldwide, concentrated in Britain, Australia, North America and a few African countries.

  Interesting video on Christadelphian Numbers.

  https://youtu.be/ER5uEef6UjQ
  

  The Assemblies of God is a huge Pentecostal denomination with millions of members in South America in particular.
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  neverendingjourney

  This video does a great job of explaining Adventism and its offshoots:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x16tchx6Lpo

  The same guy presented a varitation of this with more of a focus on JWs:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_c-PdT0SsE