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Product details

  • ISBN 9781350500044
  • Weight: 600g
  • Dimensions: 162 x 238mm
  • Publication Date: 14 May 2026
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This groundbreaking volume examines the relationship between new religions, alternative spiritualities, and popular music.

Interdisciplinary in its approach, this book draws on scholarship within the study of new religions, the sociology of religion, popular music studies, ethnomusicology, and critical musicology. It examines the ways in which devotion to a band can lead to the establishment of a new religion and also
how new religions use popular music evangelistically, ritualistically, and as a source of income.

What emerges is a complex picture in which religious beliefs and popular music cultures cross-fertilize each other in unexpected and fascinating ways.
About

Christopher Partridge is Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of several books, including High Culture: Drugs, Mysticism, and the Pursuit of Transcendence in the Modern World (2018) and Mortality and Music: Popular Music and the Awareness of Death (2015).

Tom Wagner is is Teaching Fellow in Music Performance and Digital Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Music, Branding, and Consumer Culture in Church (2019) and co-editor of three edited collections on music and religion including Congregational Music Making in a Mediated Age (2015).