Brand of Choice: Why Hillsong Music is Winning Sales and Souls

Amid current competing ideologies and priorities, Hillsong has found a formula that fuses aspects of secular consumerism and individualism with Pentecostal religious fervour. This paper will examine the ways Hillsong music is used to constitute religious experience and how religious experience is (r...

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Main Author: McIntyre, E. H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2007
In: Journal for the academic study of religion
Year: 2007, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 175-194
Further subjects:B Hillsong Church
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