Mormons, Adventists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses: Three “American Originals” and How They’ve Grown

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This paper is a reduced version of “Comparing the Geographic Distributions and Growth of Mormons, Adventists and Witnesses.” (Co-authored with Ryan T. Cragun), that was published in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2012, 51(2) 220-240. It was edited by my friend Dr Fritz Guy and published in Spectrum Magazine in 2013 so that more Adventists would have access to it.

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Published by ronaldllawson

Retired professor of history and sociology who has spent 30 years studying especially the changes in the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a result of it becoming global, with a clear majority of its members from the Developing world. I visited 60 countries for interviews in the process. I here make available to non-sociologists the papers I have published and presented at academic meetings on Adventism and also comparing Adventism's growth and spread with that of two other groups born in the US in the same century--Mormons (Latter-day Saints) and Jehovah's Witnesses.

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