Christopher Partridge

Christopher Hugh Partridge (born 1961) is an author, editor, professor at Lancaster University, and founding Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Popular Culture.[2] According to Gordon Lynch, Partridge is a leading scholar of topics in popular culture.[3]

Christopher Partridge
Born
Christopher Hugh Partridge

1961 (age 59–60)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Aberdeen
ThesisRevelation, Religion and Christian Uniqueness[1] (1995)
Academic work
DisciplineReligious studies
InstitutionsLancaster University

Major works
  • The Encyclopedia of New Religions: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities (Lion Hudson Plc, 2006)
  • The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan & Western Demonology in Popular Culture (Equinox Publishing Ltd, SW11, 2008)
  • The Re-Enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture (T. & T. Clark Publishers, 2006)[4][5][6]
  • Dub in Babylon: The Emergence and Influence of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk (Equinox Publishing, 2010)
  • The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • Mortality and Music: Popular Culture and the Awareness of Death (Bloomsbury, 2015)
  • High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2018)

See also

References
  1. Partridge, Christopher Hugh (1995). Revelation, Religion and Christian Uniqueness: An Appreciative Critique of H.H. Farmer's Theological Interpretation of Religion (PhD thesis). Aberdeen, Scotland: University of Aberdeen. OCLC 53682617.
  2. Professor Christopher Partridge
  3. Gordon Lynch, "The Role of Popular Music in the Construction of Alternative Spiritual Identities and Ideologies," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 45.4 (Dec., 2006): 481–488.
  4. Ann Gleig, "Review of The Re-Enchantment of the West, Volume 2: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture," Religious Studies Review 33.1 (Jan., 2007): 33–33.
  5. Jonathan W. Rice, "Review of The Re-Enchantment of the West, Volume 1: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture," Religious Studies Review 32.4 (Oct., 2006): 247–247.
  6. Jennifer Walters, "Review of THE RE-ENCHANTMENT OF THE WEST Volume One: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture," TLS 5341 (8/12/2005): 29–29.
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