Abstract
This chapter explores the expansion of Hillsong in socio-historical terms, matching its responses to key challenges to contexts and trends in each of the following Hillsong 1.0-4.0 "identities": as context driven local churchplant; as culture driven regional worship church; as personality-driven transnational network Church; and as brand-driven, technology-mediated Global Church. All these identities co-exist in various localities. The chapter plays particular attention to contextual factors such as Australian public secularism and crises of politics, corporatism and infrastructure, and the consequent development of geographies of emotion and aesthetics which help Hillsong "bridge" into global settings. It is a story not only of the ability of new evangelicalisms to renew and overplant old forms, but of remarkable internal resources of leadership and organization adaptability.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Hillsong Movement Examined: You Call Me Out Upon the Waters |
| Editors | Tanya Riches, Tom Wagner |
| Place of Publication | Switzerland |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 39-61 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319596563 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319596556 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Keywords
- Pentecostalism
- globalization
- Hillsong Church (Sydney, N.S.W.)