Soulful jazz singer Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique sound, troubled personal history, and a catalogue that includes such resonant songs as “

Explores the multiple religious influences on Billie Holiday's life and sound, combining elements of biography with the history of race and American music.

Virginia Woolf was not a religious person in any traditional sense, yet she lived and worked in an environment rich with religious thought, imagination, and deb

Contributions to this book probe the contexts–both social and spiritual–from which select iconic figures emerge and discover how to present themselves as in

For many, U2’s Bono is an icon of both evangelical spirituality and secular moral activism. In this book, Chad E. Seales examines the religious and spiritual