20 Facts About Irving Hexham

Irving Hexham graduated with honours with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970.

Irving Hexham then proceeded to post-graduate studies, obtaining his MA "with commendation" in religious studies and theology from the University of Bristol in 1972.

Irving Hexham's MA was based on anthropological methods and theories and involved a short dissertation on Glastonbury.

Irving Hexham obtained a PhD in history from the University of Bristol in 1975.

Irving Hexham has held a number of posts in various tertiary institutions of higher learning.

Irving Hexham was an assistant professor at Bishop Lonsdale College, University of Derby, England from 1974 to 1977.

Irving Hexham served as a course tutor in the Open University at Derby.

Irving Hexham then relocated to Canada and assumed the post of assistant professor at Regent College, Vancouver.

Irving Hexham became an assistant professor in religious studies at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and then an assistant professor in religious studies at the University of Calgary.

Irving Hexham was promoted to the rank of associate professor at Calgary, and in 1992 assumed the post of Full Professor in religious studies.

Irving Hexham is a Fellow of both the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Royal Historical Society has been a member of various professional organizations including the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion, Association for the Sociology of Religion, South African Institute of Race Relations, South African Society for Mission Studies, and the Berliner Gesellschaft fuer Missionsgeschichte of which he was a founding member with Ulrich van der Heyden.

Irving Hexham has lectured in undergraduate and post-graduate programs covering topics such as cults, sects and new religious movements, history of religion, sociology of religion, African history and religions, religion and society in South Africa, millenarian movements, theology and politics, Christianity and culture, missions and society, religion and ethics, fundamentalism and charismatic religion, methods in the study of religion, and the philosophy of religion.

Irving Hexham served as a contributing editor to the Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, and is on the Editorial Board of Studies in Religion.

Irving Hexham has written or co-edited a number of works treating various facets of religion in South Africa including African independent churches, Afrikaner Calvinism, and Zulu religion.

Irving Hexham has compiled reference works such as the Concise Dictionary of Religion and Pocket Dictionary of New Religious Movements.

Irving Hexham has co-written two analytic works on the phenomenon of new religions and cults, and co-edited a pioneering work on the development of Christian contextual missions and new religious movements.

Currently, as can be seen from his recent publications, Irving Hexham is working on issues related to Germany.

Irving Hexham began his academic research with a study of New Age thought in Glastonbury.

Irving Hexham continued his research with a study of the origins of the ideology of Apartheid.

Alongside his South African studies Irving Hexham published extensively on New Religious Movements, Theology, the History of Christian Missions, and, more recently National Socialism.