Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses. 2nd ed.

Patricia Morley is professor emerita of English and Canadian studies at
Concordia University, and the author of Kurlek, Margaret Laurence: The
Long Journey Home, and As Though Life Mattered: Leo Kennedy’s Story.

Before he was forced to leave the Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1980, M.
James Penton served as an evangelist for the movement in several
countries for many years. His first book, Jehovah’s Witnesses in
Canada: Champions of Freedom of Speech and Worship (1976), presented a
very favorable portrait of the Witnesses. Apocalypse Delayed is, in
Penton’s own words, “far more critical.” In this book, he
considers the movement’s intolerance toward dissenters within its own
ranks, and he challenges some of its doctrines. He attributes much of
the movement’s alienation from the world to its strange millenarian
eschatology. This is a balanced, well-documented, and fascinating study.