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IRVING HEXHAM: PUBLICATIONS
October 2001
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1 | Some Aspects of the Contemporary Search for
An Alternative Society (M.A. thesis, University of Bristol, 1972,
pp. 60 + 64). |
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2 | Totalitarian Calvinism: The Reformed “Dopper”
Community in South Africa, 1902-1919 (Ph.D. thesis, University of
Bristol, 1975, pp. 319) |
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Books | ||
1 |
The Irony of Apartheid, (Lewiston, Edwin
Mellen, 1981), pp. 239
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About |
2 | Understanding Cults and New Religions, with Karla Poewe (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1986, pp 170). Republished: Vancouver, Regent College Press, 1998 | Read |
3 | A Concise Dictionary of Religion (Downers Grove, Inter-Varsity, 1993), pp. 245; Republished Vancouver, Regent College Press, 1999. This book is also available on the Internet at: htttp://www.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/concise/INDEX.html | Read |
4 | New Religions as Global Cultures, with Karla Poewe (Boulder, Westview Press, March 1997) pp. 180 | About |
5 | The Christian Travelers Guide to Britain, (Grand
Rapids, Zondervan, 2001) |
About |
6 | The Christian Travelers Guide to Germany, with
Lothar Köpe (Grand Rapids, Zondervan, 2001) |
About |
7 | The Pocket Dictionary of Cults and New Religions (Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press, forthcoming, 2001) | About |
Edited Books | ||
1 | Religion, Economics, and Social Thought, edited, with Walter Block (Vancouver, The Fraser Institute, 1986), pp. 573 | About |
3 | Afro-Christian Religion & Healing in Southern Africa, editor, with G.C. Oosthuizen (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen, 1989), pp. 432 | About |
4 | Afro-Christianity at the Grassroots in Southern Africa, edited, with G.C. Oosthuizen (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen, 1991), pp. 412 | About |
5 | Empirical Studies of African Independent/Indigenous Churches, edited, with G. C. Oosthuizen (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen), 1992, pp. 345 | About |
6 | Christian Travelers Guide to Italy, by
David Bershad and Carolina Mangone (Grand Rapids, Zondervan, April,
2001) |
About |
7 | Christian Travelers Guide to France by Mark Konnert and Peter Barrs (Grand Rapids, Zondervan, April, 2001) | About |
8 | The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, editor J.D. Douglas, consulting editor, with Robert G. Clouse et al (Grand Rapids, Baker, 1991), pp. 896 | About |
Edited Texts | ||
1 | Zulu Religion: Texts and Interpretations. Vol. I: Traditional Zulu Ideas About God (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen, 1987), pp. 455 | About |
2 | The Scriptures of the amaNazaretha of Ekuphakameni, translated from the Zulu by the Rt. Rev. Londaukosi iNsiKayakho Shembe and Hans-Jürgen Becken, with introductory essays by Irving Hexham and G.C. Oosthuizen and (Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 1994), pp. xlix + 144. | About |
3 | The Story of Isaiah Shembe: History and Traditions Centered on Ekuphakameni and Mount Nhlangakazi, translated by Hans-Jürgen Becken, edited with G.C. Oosthuizen (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press) 1996, pp. 258 | About |
4 | The Story of Isaiah Shembe: Early Regional Traditions of the Acts of the Nazarites, translated by Hans-Jürgen Becken, edited with G.C. Oosthuizen (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press) 1999, pp. 317 | About |
5 | The Sun and the Moon: Oral Testimony and the Sacred History of the Ama-Nazarites Under the Leadership of Johannes Galilee Shembe and Amos Shembe, translated by Hans-Jürgen Becken, edited with G.C. Oosthuizen, (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press) forthcoming, 2001, pp. 333 | About |
6 | About | |
7 | Early Lives of Shembe with Robert
Pappini (Lewiston,
Edwin Mellen Press) 2001, pp. 300 (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, in
preparation). |
About |
General Editor | ||
1 | Heavens of Health in a Zulu City, J. Kiernan (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen, 1990), pp. 277 | About |
2 | Historiography and historical sources regarding African indigenous churches, H.L. Pretorius (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press), 1995, pp. 142 | About |
3 | An Analysis of Some Hymns of the Zionist Christian Church, P.J. Naude (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press), 1995, pp. 159 | About |
4 | The Hymns of the amaNazartha, with Adreas Hauser (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, in preparation) | About |
Books in Progress | ||
1 | Christians, Germans and Holocaust Denial (Downers Grove, Inter-Varsity Press | |
2 | Atoms, Ancestors and the Nature of Religion: African Religion in the Modern
World |
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3 | Zulu Religion: Texts and Interpretations. Vol. II: Witchcraft and Divination | |
Short Monographs | ||
1 | The New Paganism: Yoga & UFO’s (Potechefstroom, University of Potchefstroom, 1973), pp. 20 | |
2 | Calvinism & Culture: A Historical Perspective (Potchefstroom, Institute for Reformational Studies, 1982), pp 16 | Read |
3 | Bibliographical Guide to New Religious Movements (Winnipeg, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Manitoba, 1983), pp. 50 | Read |
4 | The Bible, Justice,& the Culture of Poverty (London, Social Affairs Unit, 1985), pp. 20 | |
5 | Ideas: Africans & Afrikaners, with Karla Poewe, (Montreal, CBC, 1989), pp. 18 | |
Edited Journals | ||
1 | Journal of the Christian Brethren Research Fellowship, “Understanding World Religions,” (Exeter), May 1972, No. 23, Articles by Ninian Smart, Eric Sharpe, and Muhammad Igbal, pp. 30 | Read |
2 | CALVIN-L, electronic journal/discussion group on Internet, devoted to the study of Calvinism, 1993-1995 | |
3 | NUREL-L, electronic journal/discussion group on Internet, devoted to the study of New Religious Movements, founded November, 1992-2001 | |
4 | Religion - Member of Editorial Board | |
5 | Studies in Religion - Member of Editorial Board | |
6 | Koers - Member of Editorial Board | |
Web Site Creation | ||
1 | http://www.ucalgary.ca/~hexham | |
2 | http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb | |
3 | http://christian-travelers-guides.com | |
Refereed Articles | ||
1 | “Just like another Israel”, Religion (London), 1977, 7/1, pp. 1-7. | |
2 | “Theology, Exorcism and the Amplification of Deviancy”, The Evangelical Quarterly (Exeter), April-June, 1977 Vol. XLIX, No. 2, pp. 111-116 | Read |
3 | “The Students and the Theological School,” In die Skriflig (Potchefstroom), 1978, 12/46, pp. 18-30 | |
4 | “Religious Conviction or Political Tool: The Problem of Christian National Education”, Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (Cape Town), No. 26, March 1979, pp. 13-23 | |
5 | “Calvinism and the Stigma of Apartheid”, Third Way (London), July 1979, pp.-20-21 | |
6 | “Zulu Tragedy”, Third Way (London), August 1979, p. 7 | |
7 | “Cracking the Moonie Code”, CRUX (Vancouver), September 1979, pp. 25-28 | |
8 | “Calvinism and Culture,”, CRUX (Vancouver), December 1979, pp. 14-19 | Read |
9 | “Witnessing to the Cults”, CRUX (Vancouver), March 1980, pp. 12-14 | |
10 | “Learning to live with Robots”, Christian Century (Chicago), May 21, 1980, pp. 574-578 | |
11 | “Deprogramming: Should Christians Support the Practice?”, written, with Rudy Dirks, CRUX (Vancouver), March 1981, pp. 15-20. | |
12 | “Dutch Calvinism and the Origins of Afrikaner Nationalism”, African Affairs (London), Spring 1980, pp. 195-208 | |
13 | “Christianity and Apartheid: An Introductory Bibliography”, The Reformed Journal (Grand Rapids), April 1980, pp. S1-S11 | Read |
13A | “Christianity and Apartheid: An Introductory Bibliography”, reprinted in Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (Cape Town), September 1980, pp. 39-59 | |
14 | “Racism and Evangelical Missionaries: Some examples and questions”, Missiology (Pasadena), Vol. IX, No. 3, July 1981, pp. 311-321 | |
15 |
"Rationality
and the Cults”, Third Way
(London), August 1981, pp. 14-16
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16 | “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 | Read |
17 | “Some Aspects of Religion and Spiritual Healing in Cultsville, a Contemporary North American City”, in Studies in Church History, ed., W. Sheils (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp.415-429 | |
18 | “Conversion and Consolidation in an English Town: The Freaks of Glastonbury: 1967-1982”, Update (Aarhus), March 1983, pp. 3-12 | |
19 | “Abraham Kuyper and Christian Politics”, CRUX (Vancouver), Vol. XIX, No. 1, March 1983, pp. 2-7 | |
20 | “A Short History of Black Theology in South Africa”, Revue Africaine de Theologie (Kinshasa), Vol. 6, No. 12, October 1983, pp. 189-203 | |
21 | “A Bibliographical Guide to Cults, Sects and New Religious Movements: Part I”, Update (Arhus), Vol. 7, No 4 December 1983, pp. 40-46 | |
22 | “A Bibliographical Guide to Cults, Sects and New Religious Movements: Part II”,Update (Arhus), Vol. 8 No 1 March 1984, pp. 36-48 | |
23 | “Science Fiction, Christianity and Technic Civilization”, Word and World (St. Paul), Vol IV. No 1, Winter, 1984, pp. 35-4 | |
24 | “Religion in Southern Africa”, Religious Studies Review, (Waterloo), June 1985, Vol. II, No.4, pp. 370-378 | |
25 | “The New Charismatic Churches in Durban, Johannesburg, and Pretoria,” with Karla Poewe, Human Sciences Research Bulletin (Pretoria), 1987, Vol, 17, No. 9, pp. 32-36 | |
26 | “The Soul of the New Age”, with Karla Poewe-Hexham, Christianity Today (Chicago), September 2, 1988, pp. 17-21 | |
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28 | “Charismatic and Change in South Africa”, with Karla Poewe-Hexham, The Christian Century (Chicago), August, 7-24, 1988, pp. 738-740 | |
29 | “Reply to Charismatics in South Africa”, with Karla Poewe-Hexham, The Christian Century (Chicago), January 4-11, 1989, pp. 19-21 | |
30 | “Charismatics and Apartheid,” with Karla Poewe-Hexham, Charisma (Lake Mary, Florida), Vol. 15, No. 10, May 1990, pp. 62-70 | |
31 | “African Religions: Recent & Lesser Known Works,” Religion, (Lancaster), Vol. 20; 1990, pp. 361-372 | |
32 | “The Perception of Mormons by Rural Canadian Youth,” with Merlin Brinkerhoff, Elaine Grandon, and Carson Pue, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 30, No. 4, December 1991, pp. 479-486 | |
33 | “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. Cited in Lingua Franka, September/October 1992, pp. 18-20, and College & Research Libraries, Vol.53,
No. 5, September 1992, p. 455.) |
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34 | “Wer War Isaiah Shembe,” Zeitschrift für Relilgions- und Geistesgeschichte, (Leiden, Brill) 49:3, translated with L. Köpe, November 1997, pp. 217-230 | |
35 | “Isaiah Shembe: Zulu Religious Leader,” Religion, 27:4, October 1997, pp. 361-373, this is a revised English version of "Wer War Isaiah Shembe" | |
36 | “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 | Read |
37 | “Recent Writings on the New Age Movement,” Books
and Culture Online, 13 December,1999, found at: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1999/150/22.0.html |
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38 | “What Really Happened in Uganda? Suicide or Murder?” Religion in the News, August, 2000, pp. 7- 9 & 24 | Read |
Chapters in Books | ||
1 | “Afrikaner Nationalism and the South African War”, in The South African War, edited by Peter Warwick, (London, Longmans, 1980), pp. 386-403 | |
2 | “Christian Neo-Fascism: A Possible Cultural Future?”, in Canadian Cultural Futures, edited by G. Spraakman, T. Becher & K. Wilde, (Montreal, Canadian Futures Association, 1984), pp. 41-46 | |
3 | “New Religions in Canada,” with Raymond Currie and Joan Townsend, in The New Canadian Encyclopedia, edited by James Ogilvy (Edmonton, Hurtig, 1985), Vol.2, pp. 1241-1243 | |
4 | “Attitudes to Law of the New Christian Right in America”, in Law in a Cynical Society? Opinion and Law in the 1980’s, eds., D. Gibson and J.K. Baldwin, (Calgary, Carswell, 1985), pp.358-363 | |
5 | “Christian Social Thought in the Dutch Neo-Calvinist Tradition: A Comment on Bob Goudzwaard’s Views”, in Religion, Economics and Social Thought, eds., Walter Block and Irving Hexham (Vancouver, The Fraser Institute, 1986), pp.265-275 | |
6 | “F.B. Welbourn and the Study of Religion” in Fred Welbourn by His Friends, edited by H. Welbourn (Bristol, Privately Published, 1986), pp.108-113 | |
7 | “Modernity or Reaction in South Africa: The Case of Afrikaner Religion”, in Religion and Modernity, edited by William Nichols (Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1988), 62-88 | |
8 | “Beyond the Myth of Apartheid,” in The Future of Religion, edited by Gerald Pillay, (Pretoria, Serva Publishers, 1989), pp. 147-153 | |
9 | “Beyond the myth of apartheid: charismatic Christianity and the future of Afrikaner religion,” in Religion and the Future, edited by Gerald J. Pillay (Pretoria, HSRC, 1992), pp. 149-166. This chapter is the original expanded version of the paper originally published in 1989 | |
10 | “Possible Theosophical Influences on the Rise of African Independent Churches in South Africa During the Early Years of the Twentieth Century”, in Religion Alive: Afro-Christianity at the Grassroots, eds., I. Hexham and G.C. Oosthuizen (Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 1991), pp 364-392 | Read |
11 | “African Religions & the Nature of Religious Studies,” Religious Studies: Issues, Prospects and Proposals, eds., K.K. Klostermaier and L.W. Hurtado (Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1991), pp. 361-379 | Read |
12 | “The Evangelical Response to the New Age,” in
Perspectives on the New, edited
by James R. Lewis and Gordon Melton (New York, SUNY, 1992), pp. 152-163 |
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13 | “Canadian Evangelicals,” in The Sociology of Religion: A Canadian Focus, edited by Ted Hewitt (Toronto, Macmillan, 1993), pp. 289-302. | |
14 | “Charismatic Churches and Apartheid in South Africa,” with Karla Poewe, in All Together in One Place, edited by Harold Hunter (Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1993), pp. 73-83 | |
15 | “Evolution: The Central Mythology of the New Age Movement,” in RELIGION AND THE SOCIAL ORDER. Between Sacred and Secular: Research and Theory on Quasi-Religion, edited by Arthur L. Greil and Thomas Robbins (Greenwich, JAI Press, 1994), pp. 303-321 | |
16 | “Charismatic Churches in South Africa: A Critique of Criticisms and Problems of Bias,” with Karla Poewe, in Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture, edited by Karla Poewe (Columbia, South Carolina University of South Carolina Press, 1994), pp 50-69 | |
17 | “Henry Callaway, Religion, and Rationalism in Nineteenth Century Mission History,” in Missionsgeschichte -Kirchengeschichte-Weltgeschichte (Mission-History-Church History-World History,) edited by Ulrick van der Heyden, Stuttgart, Franz Steinver Verlag, 1996, pp. 439-449 | Read |
18 | “New Religions,” with Joan Townsend and Kalra Poewe, The 1997 Canadian Encyclopedia Plus - CD ROM, edited by James Ogilvy ( Toronto, MacClelland & Stewart, Edmonton, 1996) pp .8ff. | |
19 | “Christianity in Transorangia prior to 1910,” with Karla Poewe, in Christianity in South Africa, edited by Richard Elphick and Rodney Davenport, (Cape Town: David Philip; Berkeley, University of California Press), (Cape Town. David Philip) 1997, pp. 121-134, and 421-427 | |
20 | “Conversion in Zulu New Religions,” in Studies in Conversion, edited by D. Bryant, ed., London, C. Hurst, 1999, pp. 207-219 | |
21 | “Violating Missionary Culture: The Tyranny of Theory and the Ethics of Historical Research” in Mission und Gewalt (Mission and the State), edited by Ulrick van der Heyden, Stuttgart, Franz Steinver Verlag, 2000, pp. 193-206 | |
22 | “Islamic Europe: The New Reality,” in Evangelicals and the Challenge of Religious Studies, edited by John Stackhouse, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House, 2001 | |
23 | “Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches in South Africa,” with Karla Poewe, Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, ed. Stanley M. Burgess, Grand Rapids, Zondervan, forthcoming | |
Short Refereed Encyclopedia and Dictionary Articles
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1 | The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, W. A. Elwell, ed., (Grand Rapids, Baker Book House, 1984) | |
1.1 | Armstrongism, pp. 81-81 | |
1.2 | British Israelism, pp. 174-175 | |
1.3 | Children of God, p. 211 | |
1.4 | Communitarianism, p. 258 | |
1.5 | Comparative Religion, p. 259 | |
1.6 | Cults, p. 289 | |
1.7 | Dooyeweerd, Herman, pp. 330-331 | |
1.8 | Glastonbury, p. 442 | |
1.9 | Jehovah’s Witnesses, pp. 577-578 | |
1.10 | Kuyper, Abraham, p. 616 | |
1.11 | Mormonism, 735-737 | |
1.12 | Murray, Andrew, p. 741 | |
1.13 | New Religious Movements, p. 767 | |
1.14 | Positive Thinking, p. 863 | |
1.15 | Satanism and Witchcraft, pp. 973-97 | |
1.16 | Van Prinsterer, Guillaume Groen, p. 1134 | |
2 | Encyclopedia of Biblical and Christian Ethics ed., R.K. Harrison (Nashville, Thomas Nelson, 1987) | |
2.1 | Advertising, pp. 7-8 | |
2.2 | Business Ethics, pp. 44-46 | |
2.3 | Corporate Responsibility”, pp. 92-93 | |
2.4 | Mass Media, Ethics of, pp. 249-250 | |
3 | The New Dictionary of Theology; eds., Sinclair B. Ferguson and David F. Wright (Leicester, Inter-Varsity Press, 1988) | |
3.1 | Civil Religion, pp. 147-148 | |
3.2 | Abraham Kuyper, p. 374 | |
3.3 | Murray, Andrew, p. 447 | |
3.4 | New Religions, pp. 460-461 | |
3.5 | Slavery, p. 643-645 | |
4 | Dictionary of Christianity in America, D. G. Reid, ed. (Downers Grove, Inter-Varsity Press, 1990) | |
4.1 | Russell, Charles Taze, p. 1032 | |
4.2 | Smith, Joseph Jr., p. 1097-1098 | |
5 | The Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, eds., J.D. Douglas, et. al., (Grand Rapids, Baker Book House, 1991 | |
5.1 | Armstrongism, p. 41 | |
5.2 | Christadelphians, pp. 176-177 | |
5.3 | Christian Science, pp. 180-181 | |
5.4 | Comparative Religion, pp. 222-223 | |
5.5 | Confucianism, pp. 227-228 | |
5.6 | Doukhobors, p. 273 | |
5.7 | Ron L. Hubbard, p. 410 | |
5.8 | Sects and Cults, p. 743-744 | |
5.9 | Southern Africa, 773-775 | |
5.10 | Taoism, p. 809 | |
5.11 | Zoroastrianism, p. 895 | |
6 | Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, ed. G. Anderson, (New York, Simon and Schuster) 1997 | |
6.1 | Isaiah Shembe, p. 617 | |
7 | Religion in Geschichte und Gegenward,
4th. edition, ed Jörg Persch, (Tübingen, J.C.B. Mohr) 1999 |
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7.1 | Callaway, Henry | |
Translations of my work | ||
1 | “Endetiden er ofte neglen til at forsa nye sekter,” short extract from Understanding Cults and New Religions, translated into Danish by Per Borgaard, and published in Ikon, Arhus, Denmark, Np. 12, September 1995, pp. 11-12 | |
2 | Concise Dictionary of Religion translated by Rütger Hauth for R. Brockhaus Verlag, Wuppertal, Germany, as the Kompaktlexikon Religionen, 998, pp 372 | |
3 | The translation of Understanding Cults and New Religions into German is underway | |
Journalism | ||
1 |
“Christianity in
Eastern Europe,” Cheadle Magazine
(Cheadle), January 1963, p. 16.
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2 | “14 Days in Berlin,” Link-Up, (Manchester), October 1964, pp. 5-9 | |
3 | “UFOlogy and Christianity”, Editorial Christianity Today (Carol Stream), March 10, 1978, p. 55 | |
4 | “Battlestar Galactica and the New Mythology”, HIS (Downers Grove), May 1979, pp. 17-19 | |
5 | “Slow Train Coming”, HIS (Downers Grove), February 1980, pp. 12-13. | |
6 |
“Afrikanerdom in
Crisis”, Christian Science Monitor
(Boston), October 20, 1981, p. 27
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7 | “Are the Cults Really Coming?”, Christianity Today (Carol Stream), May 21, 1982, pp. 44-45 | |
8 | “A confusing but exhilarating assembly: Reflections on the Vancouver meeting of the World Council of Churches”, The Mennonite Mirror (Winnipeg), January, 1984, p. 22 & 29 | |
9 | “Special Report: The Church in South Africa”, Christianity Today (Carol Stream), November 2, 1986, written with Fredrick Hale, Terry Muck and Paul Robbins, pp. 1-15 | |
10 | “Witchcraft” and “Afrikaner Wounds Linger”, in The Calgary Herald (Calgary), July 3, 1986, p.A | |
11 |
“The South African Problem”, The
Alberta Report (Edmonton), 22 February, 1989, p. 5 .
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12 | “Sanctions and South Africa”, with Karla Poewe, The Calgary Herald (Calgary), 30/3/89, p.A5 | |
13 | “Bleak Future drives Afrikaners to suicide”, & Karla Poewe, Calgary Herald, 31/3/89, p.A5 | |
14 | “Confronting New Age Nonsense”, Christian Week (Winnipeg), 21, February, 1989, p. 17 | |
15 | “Debunking New Age Apologetics”,Christian Week (Winnipeg), 21, March, 1989, p. 8 | |
16 |
“The ‘Myth’ of Atlantis in New Age Apologetics”Christian
Week (Winnipeg), 4 April 1989, p. 11
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17 | “Are Missionaries fading out?”, The Alberta Report (Edmonton), 24 April, 1989, p. 28 | |
18 | “New Age Critiques”, Christian Week (Winnipeg), 6 March 1990, p. 14 | |
19 | “Christian Reconstruction,” Christian Week, (Winnipeg), February 5, 1991, p. 14 | |
20 | “Christian Reconstruction and its Critics,” Christian Week, (Winnipeg), February 19, 1991 | |
21 |
“Reflections on
Brighton,” Charisma, (Mary
Lake), October, 1991, p. 24 .
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22 | “Facing the Strange Faiths of the 1990’s,” Christian Week, (Winnipeg), September 18, 1991, p. 18 | |
23 | “Facts about religious extremism in Alberta,” Christian Week (Winnipeg), April 13, 1993, p. 10 | |
24 | “Academic research helps us all,” Calgary Sun, December 24, 1994 | |
25 | “Saturday Insider: Deep rifts threaten Germany,” Calgary Sun, May 20, 1995, p. 11 | |
26 |
“Transforming Higher Education: Vision or Mirage?”, Calgary
University Gazette, 5 February, 1996, pp. 6-7 .
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27 | “Academic Administrators of Professional Administrators?”, Calgary University Gazette, (Calgary), 18 February, 1997, p. 4 | |
28 | “UFO Religion,” Christian Century,(Chicago), 17 May, 1997, p. 439-440 | Read |
29 | “Web Sites for Religion,” Net Innovatons, (Guelph), May/June 1997, p. 9 | |
30 | “Christianity is the greatest intellectual adventure”, Christian Week, April 17, 2001, p. 10 | |
31 | “Understanding the Muslim world”, Calgary Sun, September 20, 2001, Comment, p. 2 | |
Book Reviews | ||
1 | Kontakion for You Departed, by Alan Paton, London, Jonathan Cape, 1969. Christian Brethren Research Journal, 1970 | |
2 | Out of Concern for the Church, ed. John A. Olthuis, Toronto, Wedge, 1970. The Witness, March 1971, Vol. 101, No. 1203, pp. 112-112a | |
3 | en-Existentialism: The Spiritual Decline of the West. A Positive Answer to the Hippies, Change, Lit-Sen, Philadelphia, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1969, pp. 254. The Bulletin of the Scottish Institute of Missionary Studies, No. 12, 1972 | |
4 | Prisoners of Hope, M. Cassidy, Maseru, Africa
Enterprise, 1974, pp. 183. Missionalia, Vol. 3, No. 1, April 1975 |
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5 | I Will Heal Their Land, Michael Cassidy, Maseru, Africa Enterprise, 1974, pp. 357. Missionalia, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1974 | |
6 | Teaching in a Multi-Racial Society, Maurice Hobbs, London, Christian Teachers Association, 1976, pp. 83. The Journal of the Evangelical Race Relations Group, Vol. 2, No. 2, August 1976 | |
7 | Forbidden Pastures: Education Under Apartheid, Freda Troup, London, Defense and Aid Fund, 1976, pp. 72, Multiracial School, vol. 5, no. 1, 1976 | |
8 | n Gesprek met sektes, A.C. Barnard, Cape Town and Pretoria, N. G. Kerk, 1971, pp. 90. The Bulletin of the Scottish Institute of Missionary Studies, Aberdeen, No. 20, 1976 | |
9 | Die sociale probleme en taak van die Kerk in die industriele gebied, P.J. Jordaan, Cape Town and Johannesburg, Tafelberg, 1971, p. 110. The Bulletin of the Scottish Institute of Missionary Studies, Aberdeen, no. 20, 1976 | |
10 | Die Kerkregtelike ontwikkeling van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in Suid-Afrika: 1962-1975, by E.P.J. Kleynahans, Bloemfontein, N.C., Sendinguitgewers, 1973, The Bulletin of the Scottish Institute of Missionary Studies, Aberdeen, no. 20, 1976 | |
11 | As biduurklokke
lui. ‘n Bundel met 12 reekse onderwerpe vir Pinksterbidure, W.F.
Loots, Bloemfontein, N. G. Senkinguitgewers, 1973, pp. 207, The
Bulletin of the Scottish Institute of Missionary Studies, Aberdeen,
no. 20, 1976. |
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12 | Die Loedolff-saak en die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk 1862-1962, ‘n Kerkhistories-Kerkregtelilke Studie, by P.B. Watt, van der, Cape Town, Tafelburg, 1973, pp. 268. The Bulletin of the Scottish Institute of Missionary Studies, Aberdeen, no. 20, 1976 | |
13 | African Politics in South Africa: 1964-1974, by D.A. Kotze, London, Hurst, 1975, pp. 276. Africa, Vol. 47, No. 1, 1976 | |
14 | Kimbangu: An African Prophet and his Church, by Marie-Louise Martin, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1976, pp. 186. Christianity Today, October 1977 | |
15 | The Puritans in Africa, by W. de Klerk, London, Rex Collins, 1975, pp. 376. Africa, Vol. 48, No. 1, 1978 | |
16 | The Rise of Afrikanerdom: Power, Apartheid and the Afrikaner Civil Religion, by T. Dunbar Moodie, Berkeley & London, University of California Press, 1975, pp. 322, Africa, Vol. 48, No. 1, 1978 | |
17 | The Christian Couple, by Larry and Nordis Christenson, Minneapolis, Bethany Fellowship, 1977, pp. 185. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 22, No. 1, March 1979 | |
18 | Dynamic Religious Movements, by David J. Hesselgrave, ed., Grand Rapids, Baker Book House, 1978, pp. 326. The Westminster Theological Journal, Vol. XLI, No. 2, Spring 1979 | |
19 | Naude: Prophet to South Africa, by G. McLeod Bryan, Atlanta, John Knox, 1978, p. 153. The Reformed Journal, Vol. 29, No. 5, May 1979 | |
20 | The Puppet Master, by Yamamoto, J. Isamu, Downers Grove, Inter-Varsity, 1977, pp. 136. Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 22, No. 2, June 1979 | |
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