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 63–64)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Aberdeen
Thesis	Revelation, Religion and Christian Uniqueness[1] (1995)
Academic work
Discipline	Religious studies
Institutions	Lancaster 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, 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)

See also

• Biography portal

• Satan in popular culture