Cambridge University professor of music proposes a framework for thinking about all kinds of music--world, folk, classical, jazz, rock, and…
pop--by examining the personal, social, commercial, and cultural values music embodies. Challenges the reader to learn to understand music in historical context and question received musicological thought. 1998
Professor of divinity surveys the central questions of theology, addressing believers and nonbelievers alike. Considers the principles underlying religious belief,…
such as the centrality of salvation to most major religions; the concept of God in ancient, modern, and postmodern contexts; and the issue of sin and evil. 2013