Irving Hexham
Biographic Data
| ID | 140954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irving Hexham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irving |
| FAMILY NAME | Hexham |
| SIGNATURE | HEXHAM I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Surprising Aryan Mediations between German Indology and Nazism
Inventing ‘Paganists’
This article questions Richard Steigmann-Gall's claim that leading National Socialists were essentially ‘Christian’ and that neo-pagan ideas played an insignificant role in the ideology of nazism. This is done by examining the argument of Dr Goebbels' novel Michael. Ein deutsches Schicksal in Tagebuchblättern (1929) to reveal its anti-Christian structure. Speeches and other statements by and about Goebbels are then looked at to show that his work…
Sermons in Stone
John Ruskin’s comment that English Cathedrals are ‘Sermons in Stone’ applies equally well to parish churches and other ancient religious sites. This article explores the rich Christian heritage of Cumbria and seeks to encourage British Christians to recognize the rich cultural treasures that are all around them in the belief that an awakened sense of Christian history will help revive British Christianity by providing an evangelical resource that…
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer's New Religion and National Socialism
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer (1881–1962) was a missionary to India and later both a professor of religious studies at Tübingen and a founder of a new religion, called the German Faith Movement (Deutsche Glaubensbewegung, DGB). According to Hauer, his movement was the essence of National Socialism. Because some contemporary scholars try to distance Hauer's scholarship and the DGB from National Socialism, this paper reviews existing literature about the Hau…
The Story of Isaiah Shembe, Vol. I
African Christian Outreach, Vol. I
Kolonial Metropole Berlin. [Berlin, the Colonial Metropolis]
The Great Treks
The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Africaaner nationalism and identity. For African nationalists, the Mfecane - the vast movement of the Black populations in the interior following the emergence of a new Zulu kingdom as a major military force in the early 19th century - offers an equally powerful symbol of the making of a nation. With …
Contemporary Jewish Writing in South Africa
Contents - Introduction by Claudia Bathsheba Braude Rose Zwi - excerpt from Another Year in Africa Nadine Gordimer - My Father Leaves Home Dan Jacobson - The Zulu and the Zeide Sarah Gertrude Millin - Esther's Daughter Barney Simon - Our War Nehemiah Levinsky - In the Shadow of Nuremberg Dov Fedler - excerpts from Gagman Lionel Abrahams - Cut Glass Maja Kriel - Number 1-4642443-0 Lilian Simon - Help Us Sandra Braude - Behind God's Back Tony Epril…
A History of the University College of Fort Hare, South Africa
Source Criticism and the Reconstruction of Reality A Reply to Brigitte Schoen and Hubert Seiwert
This paper responds to criticism of our earlier work on the German anticult debate by Ms. Schoen and Prof. Dr. Seiwert. In it we argue that Schoen misunderstood and misread our article as a result of her obsession with published texts. Both Schoen and Seiwert underestimate the importance of history in creating the ethos that shapes the German debate about new religions
New Religions and the Anticult Movement in Canada
Meeting Report| April 01 2001 New Religions and the Anticult Movement in Canada Irving Hexham Irving Hexham Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2001) 4 (2): 281–288. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2001.4.2.281 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
New Religious Movements
Foreword, Jamie Cresswell, Institute of Oriental Philosophy, European Centre, Introduction, Bryan R. Wilson, All Souls College, Oxford, Chapter 1. New Religious Movements: Their Incidence and Significance, Eileen Barker, London School of Economics, Chapter 2. The Easternization of the west, Colin Campbell, University of York, Chapter 3. Prosperity and the New Age Movement: The Efficacy of Spiritual Economics, Paul Heelas, University of Lancaster,…
A History of the Church in Africa
Translating the Devil
Facing the Truth
Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire
With close to one million members, the Church of the Nazarites (ibandla lamaNazaretha) is one of the most popular indigenous religious communities in South Africa. Founded in 1910 by Isaiah Shembe, it offers South Africans - particularly disadvantaged black women and girls - a way to remake and reconnect to ancient sacred traditions disrupted by colonialism and apartheid. Ethnomusicologist Carol Muller explores the everyday lives of Nazarite wome…
“ Verfassungsfeindlich “
This paper examines the ideology of the German anti-cult movement. It also discusses the unique problems facing the German government resulting from right-wing extremism and the role of German cult experts in defining new religions as verfassungsfeindlich, hostile to the constitution
The Story of Isaiah Shembe
Forty Lost Years
Forty Lost Tears is a penetrating analysis of the bleakest period of South African history: the long and violent reign of the National Party began with D. E Malan's surprise victory in the 1948 election and persisted until E W. de Klerk's concession of power and South Africa's first democratic election in 1994. Building on the author's earlier work on Afrikaner nationalism, this pioneering work explores the ongoing conflicts inside the National P…
The Roots of Anitsemitism in South Africa
Cults in Context
Afro-Christian Religion and Healing in Southern Africa
Terrific Majesty
New Religions as Global Cultures
Although the Great Anti-Cult Crusade links new religious movements to dangerous cults, brainwashing, and the need for deprogramming, Karla Poewe and Irving Hexham argue that many cults are the product of a dynamic interaction between folk religions and the teachings of traditional world religions. Drawing on examples from Africa, the United States, Asia, and Europe, they suggest that few new religions are really new. Most draw on rich, if localiz…
The Irony of Apartheid
This volume details the struggle for national independence of Afrikaner Calvinism against British imperialism, providing an enlightening study of the complex relation between religion and society
New Religious Movements
Foreword, Jamie Cresswell, Institute of Oriental Philosophy, European Centre, Introduction, Bryan R. Wilson, All Souls College, Oxford, Chapter 1. New Religious Movements: Their Incidence and Significance, Eileen Barker, London School of Economics, Chapter 2. The Easternization of the west, Colin Campbell, University of York, Chapter 3. Prosperity and the New Age Movement: The Efficacy of Spiritual Economics, Paul Heelas, University of Lancaster,…
New Religious Movements in Nigeria
Inventing ‘Paganists’
This article questions Richard Steigmann-Gall's claim that leading National Socialists were essentially ‘Christian’ and that neo-pagan ideas played an insignificant role in the ideology of nazism. This is done by examining the argument of Dr Goebbels' novel Michael. Ein deutsches Schicksal in Tagebuchblättern (1929) to reveal its anti-Christian structure. Speeches and other statements by and about Goebbels are then looked at to show that his work…
Dutch Calvinism and the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism
Journal Article DUTCH CALVINISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRIKANER NATIONALISM Get access IRVING HEXHAM IRVING HEXHAM Irving Hexham teaches at Regent College in Vancouver. He is the author of a forthcoming work, The Irony of Apartheid: the struggle for national independence of Afrikaner Calvinism against British Imperialism. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 315, April 1980, P…
The Story of Isaiah Shembe, Vol. I
Translating the Devil
Surprising Aryan Mediations between German Indology and Nazism
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer's New Religion and National Socialism
Jakob Wilhelm Hauer (1881–1962) was a missionary to India and later both a professor of religious studies at Tübingen and a founder of a new religion, called the German Faith Movement (Deutsche Glaubensbewegung, DGB). According to Hauer, his movement was the essence of National Socialism. Because some contemporary scholars try to distance Hauer's scholarship and the DGB from National Socialism, this paper reviews existing literature about the Hau…
The Great Treks
The mass migration of the Boer farmers from Cape Colony to escape British domination in 1835-36 - the Great Trek - has always been a potent icon of Africaaner nationalism and identity. For African nationalists, the Mfecane - the vast movement of the Black populations in the interior following the emergence of a new Zulu kingdom as a major military force in the early 19th century - offers an equally powerful symbol of the making of a nation. With …
Isaiah Shembe, Zulu Religious Leader
Do you want to understand yourself?Look how others behave;Do you want to understand others?Look in your own heart.Willst du dich selber erkennen,so sieh, wie die andern es treiben;Willst du die andern verstehn,blick in dein eigenes Herz.(Schiller) 1 This paper deals with some problems encountered by scholars who attempt to study Primal Religions. 2 It focuses on an examination of the major scholarly literature and some traditions surrounding perc…
Christian-Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa 1918-1948
Religion, Economics and Social Thought
Books reviewed
Sylvester Stein, Second‐Class Taxi (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1983). Pp. 209. £4.45. Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum (Johannesburg: Ad Donker, 1982). Pp. 92. £4.00. John Howland Beaumont, The Great Karoo (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1983). Pp. 96. £3.20. Sol T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1982). Pp. xiii+437. £9.95. Paul B. Rich, White Power and the Liberal Cons…
Lord of the Sky-King of the Earth
Just like another Israel'-Calvinism and Afrikanerdom
Just like another Israel'-Calvinism and Afrikanerdom
Dutch Calvinism and the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism
Journal Article DUTCH CALVINISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRIKANER NATIONALISM Get access IRVING HEXHAM IRVING HEXHAM Irving Hexham teaches at Regent College in Vancouver. He is the author of a forthcoming work, The Irony of Apartheid: the struggle for national independence of Afrikaner Calvinism against British Imperialism. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 79, Issue 315, April 1980, P…
Lord of the Sky-King of the Earth
Some Aspects of Religion and Spiritual Healing in Cultsville, a Contemporary North American City
In many ways modern society resembles a large stone in an overgrown garden. The stone stands apart from the weeds. Its outline is clear and its surface smooth and clean. But if we turn the stone we find another world. This is a realm of slime with a host of creepy crawlies scrurrying to escape the light. Attempting to penetrate beyond the official rational scientific culture of modern society which, like the top-side of the stone, is visible to a…
The Irony of Apartheid
This volume details the struggle for national independence of Afrikaner Calvinism against British imperialism, providing an enlightening study of the complex relation between religion and society
Books/Livres
Books reviewed
Sylvester Stein, Second‐Class Taxi (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1983). Pp. 209. £4.45. Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum (Johannesburg: Ad Donker, 1982). Pp. 92. £4.00. John Howland Beaumont, The Great Karoo (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1983). Pp. 96. £3.20. Sol T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1982). Pp. xiii+437. £9.95. Paul B. Rich, White Power and the Liberal Cons…
Afrikaner Political Thought
Cult Controversies
Journal Article Cult Controversies: The Societal Response to the New Religious Movements. by James A Beckford, London: Tavistock Publications, 1985, viii + 327 pp. $39.95; 13.95 (paper) Get access Irving Hexham Irving Hexham University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 47, Issue 3, Fall 1986, Pages 276–278, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711384 Published: 01 October 1986
Religion, Economics and Social Thought
New Religious Movements in the United States and Canada
Journal Article New Religious Movements in the United States and Canada: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography, compiled by Diane Choquette. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. xi + 235 pp. $39.95 Get access Irving Hexham Irving Hexham University of Calgary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 2, Summer 1988, Page 200, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711027 Published…
Understanding Cults and New Religions
The Missionary and the Diviner
An Appetite for Power
Like Lions They Fought
Understanding Cults and New Religions
Journal Article Understanding Cults and New Religions, by Irving Hexham and Karla Poewe. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1986, xi + 170 pp. $8.95 and The Lure of the Cults & New Religions, by Ronald Enroth. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1987, 137 pp. $6.95 Get access William H. Norman William H. Norman Graceland College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 4, Winter…
Trapped in Apartheid
Creativity of Power
The red-dressed zionists Anders Fogelqvist, Uppsala, Uppsala Research Reports in Cultural Anthropology, 1986
Survey article
(1990). Survey article: African religions: Some recent and lesser known works. Religion: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 361-372
Religious Orthodoxy & Popular Religion in European Society Ellen Badone, editor Princeton, NJ
New Religious Movements in Nigeria
The Perception of Mormons by Rural Canadian Youth
Merlin B. Brinkerhoff, Elaine Grandin, Irving Hexham, Carson Pue, The Perception of Mormons by Rural Canadian Youth, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Dec., 1991), pp. 479-486
Religions of South Africa
Black Christians and White Missionaries
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