Wikipedia:WikiProject Jehovah's Witnesses/Proposed structure
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This proposed structure was approved by a vote of editors on 25 November 2005. Please help with adapting the current JW-related articles to this structure.
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[edit] About Jehovah's Witnesses
- Jehovah's Witnesses -- Overall introduction to JW, with very brief summaries of topics covered in depth in separate articles.
- History of Jehovah's Witnesses -- in conjunction with the Bible Students and Bible Student movement articles.
[edit] Doctrines and practices of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Doctrines and practices of Jehovah's Witnesses -- containing short summaries of doctrines and practices (since they overlap in many areas), with links to in-depth separate articles.
- Faithful and Discreet Slave -- an explanation of what the FDS is and how it works.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and apostates -- examining the JW view of apostates and their testimony.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and baptism -- explaining bible studies; the questions; irrevocability.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and Bible chronology -- examining WT view on bible chronology and differences from secular and other Christian scholars.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and blood -- also covering blood donation, use of fractions, vaccines made from blood, etc.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and Creation -- JW views on Creation, role of evolution, etc.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and disfellowshipping -- covering each of the reasons for disfellowshipping, as well as disassociation.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and education -- covering JW views on education, university, etc.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and God -- JW views on God, divine name, nature, etc.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and holiday celebrations -- covering Christmas, birthdays, Mother's, Father's, etc.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and Jesus
- Jehovah's Witnesses and neutrality -- flags, oaths, voting, etc.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and salvation -- including views on heaven, hell, paradise, 144,000, great crowd.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and sex -- examining JW views on sex, including premarital, porneia, "perverted", etc.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and gender roles -- examining JW views on headship in congregation, teaching, family, etc.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and sin -- examining JW views on sin, what is done, "serious" sins, public/private reproof.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and socialisation -- examining doctrines on "worldly" people, extra-curricular activities for JW kids, "marking" within congregation, etc.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and the Bible -- JW views on inerrancy, what forms the canon.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and the Flood -- JW views of veracity of the Flood.
- Eschatology of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Kingdom Hall -- probably incorporating Regional Building Committee
- Kingdom songs or perhaps Kingdom melodies
- Theocratic warfare -- explaining what it is, how JWs view it different from lying, examples.
- Witnessing -- covering publishers, pioneers, specials and missionaries; reports; hour requirements.
- Development of Jehovah's Witnesses doctrine
- Jehovah's Witnesses meetings
- Book study
- Public discourse
- Theocratic Ministry School
- Service Meeting
- Watchtower study
- Circuit assembly
- District convention
- International convention (Jehovah's Witnesses)
- Lord's Evening Meal
- Jehovah's Witnesses training programs
- Kingdom Ministry School
- Pioneer Service School
- Watchtower Bible School of Gilead
[edit] Organisational
- Jehovah's Witnesses governance -- covering the hierarchy of elders, MSes, COs, GB, etc.
- Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses - This should cover the administrative structure, including legal instruments, Bethels, branches, etc.
- Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
- International Bible Students Association
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Britain
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Canada
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
- Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia
- Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
- Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New Jersey, Inc.
- Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Florida, Inc.
- Wachtturm Bibel- und Traktat-Gesellschaft der Zeugen Jehovas, e.V., Selters/Taunus
- Religionsgemeinschaft der Zeugen Jehovas in Deutschland, KdÖR
- Fédération chrétienne des Témoins de Jéhovah de France
- Perkumpulan Siswa-Siswa Alkitab
- Saksi-Saksi Yehuwa Indonesia
- Congregazione cristiana dei Testimoni di Geova
- Strażnica – Towarzystwo Biblijne i Traktatowe – Zarejestrowany Związek Wyznania Świadków Jehowy
- Los Testigos de Jehová en México
- Jehovah's Witnesses legal instruments - These probably don't require separate articles just yet.
- Religious Order of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Kingdom Support Services, Inc.
- Watchtower Export Services & Trading (West) Ltd.
- Watchtower Enterprises Limited
- Watchtower Enterprises, L.L.C.
- Watchtower Associates, Ltd.
- Watchtower Foundation, Inc.
- Watchtower (U K) Ltd.
- Watchtower Ltd.
- Jehovah's Witnesses facilities
- Bethel (Jehovah's Witnesses)
- Beth Sarim
- Beth Shan
- Watchtower Educational Center
- Articles for branch offices around the world
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Britain
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Mexico
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Brazil
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in South Africa
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Australia
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Japan
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Indonesia
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Philippines
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in India
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in France
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Netherland
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Poland
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Italy
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Spain
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taiwan
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Portugal
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Sweden
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Finland
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Norway
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in New Zealand
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Colombia
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Argentina
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Uruguay
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Chile
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Hong Kong
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Thailand
- Branch Office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Denmark
[edit] Literature
- Jehovah's Witnesses literature - explaining how JW publish literature, uses, etc.
- List of Jehovah's Witnesses literature
- Aid to Bible Understanding
- Awake!
- Insight on the Scriptures
- Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life
- My Book of Bible Stories
- New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- Our Kingdom Ministry
- "Pay Attention to Yourselves and to All the Flock"
- Reasoning from the Scriptures
- Shining as Illuminators
- Studies in the Scriptures
- The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
- The Secret of Family Happiness
- The Watchtower
- What Does God Require of You?
- What Does the Bible Really Teach?
- Organized to Do Jehovah's Will
- Watchtower Library CD-ROM
- Watchtower Book Shelf CD-ROM - not published by JWs, but contains old JW publications
[edit] Jehovah's Witnesses-related
- Opposition to Jehovah's Witnesses
- Jehovah's Witnesses and freedom of religion
- Adelaide Company of Jehovah's Witnesses v Commonwealth
- Minersville School District v. Gobitis
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society et al. and Peter Anthony Mosier -- WT suing quotes.watchtower.ca
- Other important cases involving JWs.
- Jehovah's Witnesses and child sex abuse
- Jehovah's Witnesses and the United Nations
[edit] People
- Notable members
- A. H. Macmillan
- Charles Taze Russell
- Clayton J. Woodworth
- Don A. Adams
- Frederick William Franz
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
- Milton George Henschel
- Nathan Homer Knorr
- Ex-members and critics
- Carl O. Jonnson
- Edmond C. Gruss
- Olin R. Moyle
- Raymond Franz
- Robert Countess
- William H. Bowen
- William J. Schnell
[edit] Publications about Jehovah's Witnesses
- A People For His Name
- Apocalypse Delayed
- Crisis of Conscience
- Faith on the March
- In Search of Christian Freedom
- Sign of the Last Days - When?
- The Gentile Times Reconsidered
- Thirty Years a Watchtower Slave
