Expertise:

Modern religious Satanism, Religion and Popular Culture, Magic, Witchcraft, New Religious Movements

Language(s) spoken:

English, French (able to conduct interviews in French)

Cimminnee Holt is a part-time lecturer and doctoral candidate in religious studies at Concordia University, Montreal,Canada. She is a recipient of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council doctoral fellowship grants, awarded by the government of Canada, and the Fonds de recherche du Québec—Société et culture (in name only). Her broad areas of interest are new religious movements, religion and popular culture, ritual and performance theory, media studies and material culture, and western esotericism. She lectures and gives media interviews on her specialization, modern religious Satanism. She is currently completing her dissertation, an ethnographic study on members of the Church of Satan. Her publications include: “Playing with Art and Artifice: Religious Satanism as Total Environment,” in La Rosa di Paracelso (2017); “Modern Religious Satanism: A Negotiation of Tensions,” co-authored with Jesper Aagaard Petersen,  in the Oxford Handbook on New Religious Movements; “Blood, Sweat, and Urine: The Scent of Feminine Fluids in Anton LaVey’s The Satanic Witch,” in the International Journal for the Study of New Religions (2013); and “Death and Dying in the Satanic Worldview,” published in the Journal of Religion and Culture (2011).

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