ISBN:
9780197673201
,
9780197673195
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 233 Seiten
,
24 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rocha, Cristina Cool Christianity
DDC:
391.00981
Keywords:
Hillsong Church
;
Fashion Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Clothing and dress Religious aspects
;
Christianity
;
Clothing and dress
;
Clothing and dress
;
Pentecostal churches
;
Pentecostal churches
;
Kulturanthropologie
;
Religionsethnologie
;
Hillsong Church
;
Pfingstbewegung
;
Zugehörigkeit
;
Religiöses Verhalten
;
Religiöses Leben
;
Brasilien
;
Australien
;
Hillsong Church
;
Globalisierung
Abstract:
"When did Christianity become cool? How did an Australian church conquer the world and expanded into Brazil, a country with its own crop of powerful megachurches? In her exciting new book, anthropologist Cristina Rocha analyses the creation of a transnational Pentecostal field between Brazil and Australia, two countries that have been peripheral in the history of Pentecostalism but which more recently have been at the forefront of new forms of global Pentecostalism. She shows how new and reconfigured forms Christianity in both the Global North and South are increasingly digitally mediated, engaged with youth and popular cultures, and involve new forms of consumption, branding and identity. The Australian megachurch Hillsong has expanded globally through a Cool Christianity style which embraces pop music, digital media, spectacle, branding, and celebrity culture. Rocha follows young Brazilians from their budding Hillsong fandom, to their journey to Australia to join the church and study at its College, and on their return to Brazil. She argues that Brazilian middle-class youth join Hillsong to become cosmopolitan and to distinguish themselves from the Pentecostalism of the Brazilian poor. Notwithstanding Hillsong's recent scandals, the megachurch offers them an alternative geography of belonging, where pastors speak English and Christianity is about love, ethics, rationality, autonomy, and more equal relations between congregants and pastors. Rocha makes a strong argument for the importance of the local in globalization studies, and the key roles of class, affect and aesthetics for an understanding of the formation of religious subjectivities and communities"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
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