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Christopher Partridge

British academic (born 1961) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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]

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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, Vol I and Vol II, (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)
  • Cannabis, Sacred and Profane (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024)
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