The Hillsong Movement Examined

1. Introduction
Tanya Riches, Tom Wagner

Part I. Historical Approaches

2. “Flowing Together”: The Origins and Early Development of Hillsong Church within Assemblies of God in Australia
Denise A. Austin

3. “Up the Windsor Road”: Social Complexity, Geographies of Emotion, and the Rise of Hillsong
Mark Hutchinson

4. Creating the Hillsong Sound: How One Church Changed Australian Christian Music
Mark Evans

Part II. Diversity, and Dialogue

5. The Sisterhood: Hillsong in a Feminine Key
Tanya Riches

6. A Comparison of the Religious and Ethnic Ethos of Hillsong College with Paul the Apostle
Isaac Soon

7. “The Come to Brazil Effect”: Young Brazilians’ Fascination with Hillsong
Cristina Rocha

Part III. International Expansion and Spheres of Influence

8. “The Music That Just About Everyone Sings”: Hillsong in American Evangelical Media
Wen Reagan

9. Singing Beyond Territory: Hillsong and Church Planting in Oxford, UK
Mark Porter

10. Hillsongization, Religious Ecumenism, and Uniformity: A Hungarian Case Study
Kinga Povedák

11. Because They Can: Hillsong and Social Transformation
Andrew Davies

Part IV. What Lies Ahead?

12. It Is (not) Alternative: On Hillsong’s Vision as Sacrament and Spectacle
Dreu Harrison

13. The Contours of Hillsong’s Socio-Ethical Engagement
Christopher Parkes

14. The “Powerful” Hillsong Brand
Tom Wagner

15. Afterword: Hillsong Church Response
Lee Burns

Keywords: Religious Studies, Christian Theology, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Psychology, Aesthetics