Abstract
This chapter presents the sociological context of the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Poland. The religious denomination of Jehovah's Witnesses, institutional in nature, clearly affects Polish society. There are quite a few sociological monographs on this issue. Nationwide analyses of the Public Opinion Research Centre are the exception here, even though it also deals with other religious minorities and historical research processes. However, there are some monographs on this topic available on the publishing market, including sources devoted to Catholic apologetics in relation to the dogmatics of Jehovah's Witnesses. There are also a number of memoir publications with testimonies of members of the sect, mostly the former ones, providing negative comments on the issue. Jehovah's Witnesses “assimilated” into Polish religious life and their missionary activity represents a continuum. Note that Jehovah's Witnesses are seen and commonly labelled, especially in Poland, as typical, representative members of the religious sect. This chapter presents the features of religious selectivity of Jehovah's Witnesses, i.e. dynamic metamorphoses which adapt dogmatic interpretation to global changes in faith practices.
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