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Professor Christopher Partridge

Professor of Religious Studies

Degree: Ph.D (Liverpool), Ph.D. (Aberdeen), BD Hons. (Aberdeen), Dip.R.S. (Cambridge), FRSA

Research Interests

(1) My current principal area of interest lies at the interface of Popular Music Studies and Religious Studies. With Alyn Shipton, I currently edit the series Studies in Popular Music.

(2) Countercultures and subcultures in the West.

(3) The study of new religions and alternative spiritualities.

Selected Publications

Forthcoming

· 'Popular Music and Apocalyptic Discourse', in C. Partridge (ed.), Anthems of Apocalypse: Essays on Popular Music and Apocalyptic Thought (Phoenix Press, forthcoming)

· 'Esoterrorism and the Wrecking of Civilization: Genesis P-Orridge and the Rise of Industrial Paganism', in A. Bennett & D. Weston (eds), Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music (Equinox, forthcoming).

· (with Brendan Stuart) 'Religion and Popular Music in Britain, 1945-2010', in L. Woodhead & R. Catto (eds), Religion and Change in Modern Britain (Routledge, forthcoming).

· 'Occulture is Ordinary', in K. Granholm & E. Asprem (eds), Contemporary Esotericism (Equinox, forthcoming).

· 'Popular Music, Affective Space, and Meaning', in G. Lynch & J. Mitchell (eds.), Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader (Routledge, forthcoming).

· 'Lost Horizon: H.P. Blavatsky's Theosophical Orientalism', in Mikael Rothstein & Olav Hammer (eds), Handbook of the Theosophical Current (Brill, forthcoming).

· 'Auroville', in Mark Juergensmeyer & Wade Clark Roof (eds), Encyclopedia of Global Religion (Sage, forthcoming).

· 'New Age Spirituality', in Mark Juergensmeyer & Wade Clark Roof (eds), Encyclopedia of Global Religion (Sage, forthcoming).

· 'Paul Tillich', in Mark Juergensmeyer & Wade Clark Roof (eds), Encyclopedia of Global Religion (Sage, forthcoming).

· 'Order of the Solar Temple', in Mark Juergensmeyer & Wade Clark Roof (eds), Encyclopedia of Global Religion (Sage, forthcoming).

Books

· Dub in Babylon: Understanding the Evolution and Significance of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain from King Tubby to Post-punk (London: Equinox, 2010).

· (edited with Eric Christianson) Holy Terror: Understanding Religion and Violence in Popular Culture (Equinox, 2010).

· (edited with Eric Christianson) The Lure of the Dark Side: Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture (London: Equinox, 2009)

· (edited with L. Woodhead & H. Kawanami), Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, second edition (Routledge, 2009).

· The Re-enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture, 2 volumes (London: T&T Clark, 2004, 2005).

· (edited) The World's Religions, third edition (LionHudson/Fortress Press, 2005)

· (edited) New Religions: A Guide (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004);also published as Encyclopaedia of New Religions: New Religious Movements, Sects and Alternative Spiritualities (Oxford: LionHudson, 2004).

· (edited) UFO Religions (London: Routledge, 2003)

· H. H. Farmer's Theological Interpretation of Religion (New York: Edwin Mellen, 1998)

· H. H. Farmer's 1951 Gifford Lectures: Reconciliation and Religion, Texts and Studies in Religion, vol.78 (New York: Edwin Mellen, 1998).

Articles

· 'Babylon's Burning: Reggae, Rastafari and Millenarianism', in J. Walliss & K. Newport (eds.), The End All Around Us: Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture (Equinox, 2009): 43-70.

· 'Religion and Popular Culture', in L. Woodhead, H. Kawanami, & C. Partridge (eds), Religions in the Modern World, second edition (Routledge, 2009): 489-522.

· 'Schism in Babylon: Colonialism, Afro-Christianity and Rastafari', in J. Lewis (ed.), Sacred Schisms (Cambridge University Press, 2009): 306-31.

· 'The Occultural Significance of The Da Vinci Code', in S. Hjarvard (ed.), Northern Lights: Film and Media Studies Yearbook Vol.6 (Intellect Books, 2008): 107-126.

· 'King Tubby Meets the Upsetter at the Grass Roots of Dub: Some Thoughts on the Early History and Influence of Dub Reggae', Popular Music History 2:3 (2007): 309-331.

· 'Satanism and the Heavy Metal Subculture', in P. Riddell & B.S. Riddell (eds), Angels and Demons: Perspectives and Practice in Diverse Religious Traditions (Apollos, 2007), 229-55.

· (with R. Geaves) 'Antisemitism, Islam, and Christianity: The History and Contemporary Religious Significance of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion', in J. R. Lewis & O. Hammer (eds), The Invention of Sacred Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2007): 75-95.

· 'The End is Nigh: Failed Prophecy, Apocalypticism, and the Rationalization of Violence in New Religious Eschatologies', in J. Walls (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008): 191-212.

· 'Truth, Authority and Epistemological Individualism in New Age Thought', in D. Kemp & J. R. Lewis (eds), New Age Handbook (Leiden: Brill, 2007): 231-54.

· 'The Eschatology of Heaven's Gate', K. Newport & C. Gribbin (eds), Expecting the End: Millennialism in Social and Historical Context (Baylor University Press, 2006), 49-66.

· 'The Spiritual and the Revolutionary: Alternative Spirituality, British Free Festivals, and the Emergence of Rave Culture', Culture and Religion 7:1 (2006): 41-60.

· 'Alien Demonology: the Christian Roots of the Malevolent Extraterrestrial in UFO Religions and Abduction Spiritualities', Religion 34 (2004): 163-89.

· 'Alternative Spiritualities, New Religions and the Re-enchantment of the West', in J. R. Lewis (ed), New Religious Movements (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 39-67.

· 'Sacred Chemicals: Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Experience', in Partridge & Gabriel (eds), Mysticisms East and West: Studies in Mystical Experience (Milton Keynes, 2003), 96-131.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I would be happy to supervise doctoral students in the following areas:

- Religion and popular culture

- Religion and popular music

- New religions and alternative spiritualities

- Radical Christian thought

- Quakerism

Associated Keywords: Altered states of consciousness, Alternative spiritualities, Ambient music, Black metal, Contemporary popular culture, Death metal, Disco, Experimental music, Explaining the growth of spirituality, Folk, Ghosts, Gothic culture, Jamaica, Jazz, New age, New religious movements, Popular culture, Popular Music, Punk, Quakerism, Religious history, Religious thought, Romanticism and spirituality, Socially engaged spirituality, Sociology of religion, Sociology of spirituality, Sonic arts, Spirituality, Spirituality and consumer culture, Spirituality and wellbeing, Theology, Traditions and spirituality, Twentieth-century popular culture, Youth subculture

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