Christopher Hugh Partridge (born 1961) is an

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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'' (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)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. *''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)

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