Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations by Tanya Riches

Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations by Tanya Riches

Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)imagining Identity in the Spirit provides an ethnographic account of three Australian Pentecostal congregations with Aboriginal senior leadership. Within this Pentecostalism, Dreaming realities and identities must be brought together with the Christian gospel. Yet current political and economic relationships with the Australian state complicate the possibilities of interactions between culture and Spirit. The result is a matrix or network of these churches stretching across Australia, with Black Australian Pentecostals resisting and accommodating the state through the construction of new and ancient identities. This work occurs most notably in context of the worship ritual, which functions through ritual interaction chains to energise the various social engagement programs these congregations sustain.

Tanya Riches, Ph.D (2017), Fuller Theological Seminary, is Senior Lecturer at Hillsong College, and researches at the Centre for Disability Studies, affiliate of The University of Sydney. She has published various articles and co-edited The Hillsong Movement Examined (Palgrave, 2017)

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ISBN 13	9789004400252
ISBN 10	9004400257
Title	Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations
Author	Tanya Riches
Series	Global Pentecostal And Charismatic Studies
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Brill
Year published	2019-05-09
Number of pages	324
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