The Hillsong movement examined : you call me out upon the waters / Tanya Riches, Tom Wagner, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Riches, Tanya, editor.

Wagner, Thomas, 1980- editor.

Series:

CHARIS: Christianity and renewal--interdisciplinary studies

Christianity and renewal : interdisciplinary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hillsong Church.

Hillsong Music Australia.

Hillsong International Leadership College.

Assemblies of God in Australia.

Hillsong Church (Baulkham Hills, N.S.W.)--History.

Hillsong Church (Baulkham Hills, N.S.W.).

Hillsong Church (Sydney, N.S.W.)--History.

Hillsong Church (Sydney, N.S.W.).

Pentecostal churches.

Big churches.

Pentecostal churches--Australia--History.

Big churches--Australia--History.

Church growth--Pentecostal churches.

Church growth.

Contemporary Christian music.

History.

Australia.

Physical Description:

xv, 279 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

"This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading writers and thinkers to provide a critique of a broad range of topics related to Hillsong Church. Hillsong is one of the most influential, visible, and (in some circles) controversial religious organizations/movements of the past thirty years. Although it has received significant attention from both the academy and the popular press, the vast majority of the scholarship lacks the scope and nuance necessary to understand the complexity of the movement, or its implications for the social, cultural, political, spiritual, and religious milieus it inhabits. This volume begins to redress this by filling important gaps in knowledge as well as introducing different audiences to new perspectives. In doing so, it enriches our understanding of one of the most influential Christian organizations of the late 20th and early 21st centuries"--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Tanya Riches and Tom Wagner

"Flowing together" : the origins and early development of Hillsong Church within Assemblies of God in Australia / Denise A. Austin

"Up the Windsor Road" : social complexity, geographies of emotion and the rise of Hillsong / Mark Hutchinson

Creating the Hillsong sound : how one church changed Australian Christian music / Mark Evans

The sisterhood : Hillsong in a feminine key / Tanya Riches

A comparison of the religious and ethnic ethos of Hillsong College with Paul the Apostle / Isaac Soon

"The come to Brazil effect" : young Brazilians' fascination with Hillsong / Cristina Rocha

"The music that just about everyone sings" : Hillsong in American evangelical media / Wen Reagan

Singing beyond territory : Hillsong and church planting in Oxford, UK / Mark Porter

Hillsongization, religious ecumenism, and uniformity : a Hungarian case study / Kinga Povedák

Because they can : Hillsong and social transformation / Andrew Davies

It is (not) alternative : on Hillsong's vision as sacrament and spectacle / Dreu Harrison

The contours of Hillsong's socio-ethical engagement / Christopher Parkes

The "powerful" Hillsong brand / Tom Wagner

Afterword : Hillsong Church response / Lee Burns.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319596556

3319596551

OCLC:

985081966