Media Technology Creating 'Sermonic Events.' The Hillsong Megachurch Network

The article discusses the modes of preaching practices enhanced by the possibilities of media technology, based on an ethnographic research in global megachurch networks, like Hillsong New York City and Hillsong Amsterdam. Topics covered include the challenges posed by the network to the characteris...

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Published in:Cross currents
Main Author: Klaver, Miranda 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2015
In: Cross currents
Further subjects:B Church
B Technology
B HILLSONG Church Ltd
B Preaching
B Mass Media
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Summary:The article discusses the modes of preaching practices enhanced by the possibilities of media technology, based on an ethnographic research in global megachurch networks, like Hillsong New York City and Hillsong Amsterdam. Topics covered include the challenges posed by the network to the characteristics of live preaching in terms of coherence between time and place, embodiment and performance, and the transformation of the sermon into a sermonic event.
ISSN:1939-3881
Contains:Enthalten in: Cross currents
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/cros.12164