Irving Hexham - Selected Essays

Selected Essays

Published Reports

• Religious Extremism in Africa, for UNHCR Emergency & Security Service, Geneva, September 2002, pp. 37
• A Review of the Current State of Religious Magazines and Newspapers in Canada,” Ottawa, Department of Canadian Heritage, Ottawa, October 2002, pp. 55, assisted by Joanne Emond-McCullum who worked on the French Canadian publications section.

Refereed Academic Articles:

• “Just like another Israel”, Religion (London), 1977, 7/1, pp. 1–7.
• “Calvinism and Culture”, CRUX (Vancouver), December 1979, pp. 14–19.
• “Dutch Calvinism and the Origins of Afrikaner Nationalism”, African Affairs (London), Spring, 1980, pp. 195–208.
• “Christianity and Apartheid: An Introductory Bibliography”, Reformed Journal (Grand Rapids), April 1980, pp. S1-S11.
• “Lord of the Sky-King of the Earth: Zulu Traditional Religion and Belief in the Sky God”, Studies in Religion (Waterloo), Vol. 10, 3, 1981, pp. 273–285.
• “Conversion and Consolidation in an English Town: The Freaks of Glastonbury: 1967–1982”, Update (Aarhus), March 1983, pp. 3–12.
• “Science Fiction, Christianity and Technic Civilization”, Word and World (St. Paul), Vol. IV. No 1, Winter, 1984, pp. 35–42.
• “Religion in Southern Africa”, Religious Studies Review, (Waterloo), June 1985, Vol. II, No.4, pp. 370–378.
• “The Soul of the New Age”, with Karla Poewe-Hexham, Christianity Today (Chicago), September 2, 1988, pp. 17–21.
• “Charismatic Christianity and Change in South Africa”, with Karla Poewe-Hexham, The Christian Century (Chicago), August, 7–24, 1988, pp. 738–740.
• “African Religions: Recent & Lesser Known Works”, Religion, (Lancaster), Vol. 20; 1990, pp. 361–372.
• “On Plagiarism and Integrity in Scholarly Activity”, Humanist: Humanities Computing, 5:4, 3 April 1992, received electronically via humanist@brownvm.bitnet, 5.0814. This article was published electronically and was later cited in Lingua Franca, September/October 1992, pp. 18–20, and College & Research Libraries, Vol.53, No. 5, September 1992, p. 455.
• “Isaiah Shembe: Zulu Religious Leader”, Religion, 27:4, October 1997, pp. 361–373, this is a revised English version of 33.
• “Verfassungsfeindlich: Church, State and New Religions in Germany”, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. Vol. 2, No. 2, 1999, pp. 208–227.
• “Suicide or Murder in Uganda?” Religion in the News, August, 2000:7–9 + 24.
• “New Religions and the Anti-Cult Movement in Canada”, Nova Religio, 2 April, 2001, Vol. 4, No.2, pp. 281–288.
• “Jakob Wilhelm Hauer’s New Religion and National Socialism,” with Karla Poewe, in the Journal of Contemporary Religion, London, Vol. 20, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 195–215.
• " Inventing ‘Paganists’: a Close Reading of Richard Steigmann-Gall's the Holy Reich,” the Journal of Contemporary History, January 2007 pp. 59–78.
• “The Völkisch Modernist Beginnings of National Socialism: Its Intrusion into the Church and its Antisemitic Consequence,” with Karla Poewe, in Religion Compass, 2009, pp. 676–696.