Worshipping Bodies: Affective Labour in the Hillsong Church

Wade, Matthew; Hynes, Maria

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Worshipping Bodies: Affective Labour in the Hillsong Church

Date

2013

Authors

Wade, Matthew

Hynes, Maria

Publisher

Pergamon Press

Abstract

The Australian megachurch, Hillsong, is as well known for its music and spectacle as it is for the content of its religious ideas. This is largely due, as Connell argues in his geography of Hillsong, to the peculiar mix of the theological and the modern t