The Hillsong Movement Examined [electronic resource] : You Call Me Out Upon the Waters /
Riches, Tanya.editor.
Wagner, Tom.editor.
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.  Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. “Flowing Together”: The Origins and Early Development of Hillsong Church within Assemblies of God in Australia -- 3. “Up the Windsor Road”: Social Complexity, Geographies of Emotion and the Rise of Hillsong -- 4. Creating The Hillsong Sound: How One Church Changed Australian Christian Music -- 5. The Sisterhood: Hillsong in a Feminine Key -- 6. A Comparison of the Religious and Ethnic Ethos of Hillsong College with Paul the Apostle -- 7. ‘The Come to Brazil Effect’: Young Brazilians Fascination with Hillsong -- 8. The Music That Just About Everyone Sings”: Hillsong in American Evangelical Media -- 9. Singing Beyond Territory: Hillsong and Church Planting in Oxford, UK -- 10. Hillsongization, Religious ecumenism, and uniformity: A Hungarian case study -- 11.Because They Can: Hillsong and Social Transformation -- 12. It is (not) alternative: On Hillsong’s vision as sacrament and spectacle -- 13. The Contours of Hillsong’s Socio-Ethical Engagement -- 14. The Powerful, “Sensational” Hillsong Brand.
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.  Theology.
Religion and sociology.
Psychology and religion.
Aesthetics.
Christian Theology.
Sociology of Religion.
Religion and Psychology.
Aesthetics.