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Justin James Meggitt (born 1968) [1] is a professor of religious studies, lecturer at the University of Cambridge, fellow at Wolfson College and is the co-founder of the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM). [2] [3]
He initially studied at the Newcastle University, where he earned a first class degree in Religious studies. He then took a Commonwealth Scholarship to Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo, Ontario, where he studied for a Master of Theological studies. He later undertook a PhD in New Testament Studies at Cambridge. He held fellowships at Westminster College, Oxford, and Jesus College, Cambridge, from 1994 to 1999. Since 1999 he has held positions at the University of Cambridge, including as a Temporary University Lecturer in the Faculty (1999–2001), as a Fellow of Corpus Christi College (2001–2003), and as a Staff Tutor, and as a University Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion at the University's Institute of Continuing Education (2004–2017). [2] [4] Since 2011 he has been a visiting researcher at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University [2] [5] In 2024, he was appointed Professor in the Study of Religion. [4]
Justin Meggitt is also the founder and coordinator of the MPhil Pathway in Religion and Conflict at the University of Cambridge [6] and co-founder of the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM). [2] [3] He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the non-profit network Progressive Connexions, which provides interdisciplinary practice for academic, commercial, non-governmental, practitioner and voluntary sector organisations. [7] [8] From 2004 to 2010 he was a director of Hughes Hall Conference Company Limited, [1] a Cambridge-based company offering first-degree and post-graduate level higher education. [9] He was also a member of the Jesus Project research initiative. [10]
Justin Meggitt is active in writing books, book chapters, articles in the specialist and popular press. [7] [11] [12] [ unreliable source? ] He gives public lectures and participates in radio and television programs. [13] [14] [15] [16] His interests and research include issues related to religion: magic, miracle, spirituality, religious radicalism, terrorism and conflicts, apocalyptic and millenarian movements, as well as issues of the historical Jesus and the origins of Christianity. [2] [4] [13] [17]
In his research and publications, Meggitt is not afraid to challenge the scholarly consensus, for example on the material status of the early Christians. [18] [19] His methodology and rhetoric have been criticized, but he enjoys some popularity among scholars of early Christianity. [19] [20]
He had a wife, Melanie Jane Wright (1970–2011) who was a scholar of modern Judaism and the study of religion and film. [21]