The Gospel according to Bob Dylan

by Michael J. Gilmour

Book Overview

Since the early 1960s, music fans have found Bob Dylan's spirituality fascinating, and many of them have identified Dylan as a kind of spiritual guru. This book, written by a scholar who is a longtime fan, examines Dylan's mystique, asking why audiences respond to him as a spiritual guide. This book reveals Bob Dylan as a major twentieth- and twenty-first-century religious thinker with a body of relevant work that goes far beyond a handful of gospel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664232078
• ISBN13: 9780664232078
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"