Christopher Partridge
Christopher Hugh Partridge is an author, editor, professor at Lancaster University, and founding Co-director of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Popular Culture. According to Gordon Lynch, Partridge is a leading scholar of topics in popular culture.
Major works
- The Encyclopedia of New Religions: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities
- The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan & Western Demonology in Popular Culture
- The Re-Enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture, Vol I and Vol II,
- Dub in Babylon: The Emergence and Influence of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk
- The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane
- Mortality and Music: Popular Culture and the Awareness of Death
- High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World
- ''Cannabis, Sacred and Profane''