Hillsong Church: Expansive Pentecostalism, Media, and the Global City (Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges)
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This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities. Ethnographic research in Amsterdam and New York City shows that global cities harbor nodes in transnational religious networks in which media play a crucial role. By taking a lived religion approach, media is regarded as integral part of everyday practices of interaction, expression and consumption of religion. Key question raised is how processes of mediatization shape, alter and challenge this thriving cosmopolitan expression of Pentecostalism. Current debates in the study of religion are addressed: religious belonging and community in global cities; the interrelation between media technology, religious practices and beliefs; religion, media and social engagement in global cities; media and emerging modes of religious leadership and authority. In this empirical study, pressing societal issues like institutional responses to sexual abuse of children, views on gender roles, misogyny and mediated constructions of femininity are discussed. Acknowledgments Contents 1: Introduction Methodology and Positionality Lived Religion and Media Practices Hillsong Church Hillsongization Pentecostalism in Global Cities Pentecostalism and Mediatization What to Expect References 2: Community Formation in Global Cities Introduction The Hillsong Church Experience on Sunday Inside Hillsong Church: Multiple Audiences Belonging in the Global City You Belong Here Belonging as Identification: Millennials Commitment and Boundaries Religious Identification and Emotional Attachment Boundary Work: Conversion and Baptism Moral Boundaries Conclusion References 3: Time and Presence Introduction Modernity, Media, and Time The Vision: Revival Time Mediatized Time in Space Mediatized Music and Time Mediatized Sermons Synchronizing Global Time Synchronizing Biblical Times Sermonic Event and Temporality Conclusion References 4: Social Engagement The Vision: Cities of Influence Pentecostalism, Hillsong Church, and Social Engagement The Hillsong Website The City Imagined The City Built: Politics of Location and Space Local Social Engagement Global Social Engagement Mediatized Social Engagement References 5: Authenticity and Transparency Media, Religious Authority, and Leadership The Royal Commission: The Public Story Hillsong Conferences: The Honest Story Live Love Lead: The Real Story Triumphant Suffering Leader References 6: Media Protest Megachurch Conferences Mediatization and Global Megachurch Networks Announcement: Driscoll Is Coming The Mark Driscoll Controversy Hillsong, Driscoll, and Media Protest The Driscoll Interview Mediated Power and Counter-Power Conclusion References 7: Pentecostal Popular Feminism Introduction Conversion: Narratives, Media, and the Body The Women of the Houston Family The Mother of the Church: Bobbie Houston The Documentary: ‘The Road Leads Home’ Conversion, Self-Esteem, and the Body Pentecostalism and Popular Feminism References 8: Mediatized Christianity Mediatization in Global Cities Mediatization of Religious Authority Media, Religion, and Visibility To Conclude Afterword References Index
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