Overview
- Focuses on the impact of new media on global Pentecostalism and local expressions of a global megachurch network
- Offers a unique perspective on the everyday experiences and motivations of Hillsong’s visitors
- Based on an extensive period of ethnographic and online research
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges (PSLRSC)
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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.
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“This book uncovers the penetration of the media-saturated sociocultural environment into the everyday life of Hillsong Church through the religious perspectives and practices of Hillsong Church actors and then explores the intertwining of the media with the Hillsong Church. This book is a catalyst for research in Pentecostal Christianity, globalization and religious mobility, and media–religion relations.” (Wei Xiong, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 48 (4), December, 2022)
Authors and Affiliations
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Miranda Klaver is Professor Anthropology of Religion at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hillsong Church
Book Subtitle: Expansive Pentecostalism, Media, and the Global City
Authors: Miranda Klaver
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74299-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74298-0Published: 10 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74301-7Published: 10 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74299-7Published: 09 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-4390
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4404
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 236
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Urban Studies/Sociology, Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, Social Anthropology