Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when most kids are off at college discovering the pleasures of the mind and of the senses, Barbara Grizzuti Harrison started scrubbing toilets in a Jehovah's Witness commune. Ten years in the twisted cult convinced her that "my intelligence was some kind of tricky, predatory animal, which if not kept firmly reined, would surely spring on and destroy...
...citizens of the U.S.S.R. belong to more than 100 ethnic groups and claim descent from Varangians, Turks, Mongols and countless Eurasian tribes. Their government preaches to them, in Russian, about the supreme wisdom of a 19th century German atheist. They, however, speak in more than 100 tongues and worship Jehovah, God, Buddha, Allah, or the animist spirits of nomadic hunters in the far north...
America is a land of invention, with a long tradition of the pioneer spirit of doing-it-yourself. Nowhere is this creative genius clearer than in the field of religion, for in its short life as a nation America has yielded up Mormans and Pentecostals, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and Christian Scientists, Theosophists and Transcendentalists. Immigrants from all over the world have brought their native faiths to the U.S., further increasing the potency of the mixture. But at no time in the nation's history have there been so many and varied spiritual practices, some wholly new, some...
...second universal religion in Africa-Islam-and Barrett figures its continent-wide increase at 4,784,000 people a year, of whom 6% are converts from other faiths. All of the church groups are prospering, he reports: Roman Catholic, Anglican, Protestant, "African Independent" and heterodox sects like the Jehovah's Witnesses...