Zoe Knox is Associate Professor of Modern Russian History at the University of Leicester, UK.Emily B. Baran is Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University, USA.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsZoe Knox (University of Leicester, UK) and Emily B. Baran (Middle Tennessee State University, USA), ‘Religious Minorities and the “Jehovah’s Witness Test”: An Introduction’1. Joseph Webster (University of Cambridge, UK), ‘When Witnesses Talk Back: Ethnographic and Eschatological Reflections on Experiences of Intolerance among Jehovah’s Witnesses in Contemporary Northern Ireland’2. Edgar Zavala-Pelayo (El Colegio de México, Mexico), ‘Intersectional discriminations against Jehovah’s Witnesses: Blood transfusions, religious minorities and secularism in Mexico’3. Margo A. Peyton (Mass General Brigham, USA) and Michael P.H. Stanley (Tufts Medical Center, USA), ‘Blood Refusal and the Ethics Revolution’4. Lise Paulsen Galal (Roskilde University, Denmark), ‘Nation building, Christian churches, and Jehovah’s Witnesses: Dual Encounters in Egypt’5. Kwang Suk Yoo (Kyung Hee University, South Korea), ‘Minority Religions and Conscientious Objection: The South Korean case’6. John R. Vile (Middle Tennessee State University, USA), ‘First Amendment Freedoms and Jehovah’s Witnesses in the United States’7. James T. Richardson (University of Nevada, USA), ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses and the International Campaign for Religious Freedom’8. Emily B. Baran (Middle Tennessee State University, USA) and Zoe Knox (University of Leicester, UK), ‘Banning Religious Minorities: Does it Work? A Case Study of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Soviet Union and in Putin’s Russia’9. Tharcisse Seminega (Author, No Greater Love: How my Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda) and Valens Nkurikiyinka (Independent researcher, Rwanda), ‘“Political Neutrality” During the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda: A Case Study of Jehovah’s Witnesses’George D. Chryssides (York St John University, UK), ‘The Law and the Prophets: Concluding Reflections’Index

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