Professor, Nature of Religion

Department of Religious Studies
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada

Office: Social Sciences 1310
Phone: (403) 220-3280
Fax: (403) 210-0801
Email: hexham@ucalgary.ca

Education

City & Guilds [1962] Diplomas in Domestic and Industrial Gas Technology , Institute of Gas Engineers Diplomas [1963, 1964] B.A. [Hons.] Lancaster University, 1970 M.A. "with commendation," Bristol University, 1972 Ph.D. Bristol University, 1975. Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Areas of Interest

New Religious Movements, African Religion and Society, Dutch neo-Calvinism, Charismatic Religions, Methods and Theory in the Study of Religion

Current Graduate Students

Selected Publications

The Irony of Apartheid [1981]

Understanding Cults & New Religions [with Karla Poewe, 1986]

A Concise Dictionary of Religion [1994]

New Religions as Global Cultures [with Karla Poewe, 1997]

Religion and Economics [ed. with Walter Block, 1987]

Zulu Religion: Texts and Interpretations [1987]

Afro-Christian Religion & Healing in Southern Africa [ed., with G.C. Oosthüizen, 1989]

Afro-Christianity at the Grassroots in Southern Africa [ed., with G.C. Oosthüizen, 1991]

Empirical Studies of African Independent/Indigenous Churches [ed., with G.C. Oosthüizen, 1992]

The Scriptures of the AmaNazaretha of Ekuphakameni [tr. by Londa Shëmbe and Hans-Jürgen Becken, 1994]

The Sacred History and Traditions of the amaNazaretha. Volume One: The Story of Isaiah Shembe [tr. by Hans-Jürgen Becken; edited with G.C Oosthüizen, 1996]

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