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Hillsong, an Australian megachurch founded in 1983, is now a global phenomenon. It has branches in most global cities and award-winning worship bands that tour the world and whose music is sung weekly by an estimated 50 million people in 60 languages. Moreover, the megachurch and its bands have an immense presence on social media with millions of followers. The scandals around sex and money that have rocked Hillsong in recent times have been reported globally in the mainstream secular media, reflecting the megachurch's prominence. Hillsong's style of Pentecostalism relies on a deep engagement with consumer capitalism, as well as celebrity, youth, and digital cultures. In Cool Christianity, Cristina Rocha tells the story of how Hillsong's

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Cristina Rocha is Professor of Anthropology at Western Sydney University, Australia. She is the author of the award-winning book John of God: The Globalization of Brazilian Faith Healing (OUP 2017). Rocha co-edits the Journal of Global Buddhism and the Brill series Religion in the Americas. She was a fellow of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (2021-22) and President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (2017-19). She has held Visiting Research positions at Utrecht University, Kings College, the CUNY Graduate Centre, and the Max Planck Institute for Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Her publications have been translated into Spanish, French and Portuguese.

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