The Hillsong Movement Examined

You Call Me Out Upon the Waters

Tanya Riches, Tom Wagner, Tanya Riches, Tom Wagner

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319596556
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319596563
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Aesthetics in Philosophy

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 20^th and early 21^st centuries. 

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Contents
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Part I Historical Approaches
• Chapter 2 “Flowing Together”: The Origins and Early Development of Hillsong Church within Assemblies of God in Australia
• Chapter 3 “Up the Windsor Road”: Social Complexity, Geographies of Emotion, and the Rise of Hillsong
• Chapter 4 Creating the Hillsong Sound: How One Church Changed Australian Christian Music
• Part II Diversity, and Dialogue
• Chapter 5 The Sisterhood: Hillsong in a Feminine Key
• Chapter 6 A Comparison of the Religious and Ethnic Ethos of Hillsong College with Paul the Apostle
• Chapter 7 “The Come to Brazil Effect”: Young Brazilians’ Fascination with Hillsong
• Part III International Expansion and Spheres of Influence
• Chapter 8 “The Music That Just About Everyone Sings”: Hillsong in American Evangelical Media
• Chapter 9 Singing Beyond Territory: Hillsong and Church Planting in Oxford, UK
• Chapter 10 Hillsongization, Religious Ecumenism, and Uniformity: A Hungarian Case Study
• Chapter 11 Because They Can: Hillsong and Social Transformation
• Part IV What Lies Ahead?
• Chapter 12 It Is (not) Alternative: On Hillsong’s Vision as Sacrament and Spectacle
• Chapter 13 The Contours of Hillsong’s Socio-Ethical Engagement
• Chapter 14 The “Powerful” Hillsong Brand
• Chapter 15 Afterword: Hillsong Church Response
• Index