{"product_id":"9781621890072","title":"Sects, Love, and Rock \u0026 Roll: My Life on Record","description":"\"If this book moves, I hope it moves in the way pop songs do. There will be a lot of talk about songs, but inasmuch as this is a book about listening to music, it's also about how listening to music makes us who we are, or at least about how it makes me who I am, and so it is an exploration, an idiosyncratic and opinionated and particular one, of a self shaped by the oddly intersecting forces of the American evangelical Protestant church and the American popular music scene. I don't mean for that to sound hoity-toity--if this were fifteen years ago, I would say that this book was about Christian music, and I would know exactly what I meant. My purpose now is not only to talk about \"Christian music.\" I am not here to explicate Christian music, to explain why it exists and whether it is any good. Instead, think of what you're about to read as like an iPod playlist, a collection of essays and thoughts on listening to music and having faith and how they have made me, and a lot of people like me, and maybe you.             Also, there will be some jokes about Stryper.\"","brand":"Wipf \u0026 Stock Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134558716144,"sku":"9781621890072","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781621890072_p0.jpg?v=1763859784","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781621890072","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}