Right-wing Christian Intervention in a Naïve Polity

Maddox, Marion

doi:10.1179/1462317x13z.00000000071

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“…The paper argues that for the church leaders, their theology that legitimises church growth as a sign of God's blessing assisted in developing opportunities for establishing organisational foundations in a range of activities which would eventually assist in achieving church growth on a global scale. Thus, this paper demonstrates the actualisation of the growth theology first identified by Maddox in Hillsong Church (Maddox 2012(Maddox , 2013(Maddox , 2014b) in a range of other similar Australian churches and links this to organisational foundations established in a local Australian policy context.…”

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confidence: 59%

‘An Unstoppable Force for Good’?: How Neoliberal Governance Facilitated the Growth of Australian Suburban-Based Pentecostal Megachurches

Shanahan

2019

Religions

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Hillsong Church has received significant scholarly attention, which has observed the church’s rapid local and global growth. Several other Australian-based Pentecostal churches demonstrate a similar growth trajectory to Hillsong Church, namely: C3 Church, Citipointe Church, Planetshakers, and Influencers Church. To further scholarly understanding of aspects of this rapid growth, this paper discusses the emergence of economic rationalist policies which led to the neoliberal governance context in Australia. The paper argues that the emergence of this policy context, which emphasises marketization and privatisation, provided opportunities for suburban-based Pentecostal churches to expand activities beyond conducting worship services. The paper analyses materials produced by Hillsong Church, C3 Church, Citipointe Church, Planetshakers, and Influencers Church and associated educational, charity, and financial organisations. Through this analysis, the paper finds that the emergence of a neoliberal governance context in Australia provided opportunities for these churches to expand activities beyond traditional worship ceremonies to include additional activities such as running schools, Bible colleges, community care organisations, charity ventures, and financial institutions. The paper shows how economic rationalism and neoliberalism assisted in providing a context within which Australian-based suburban Pentecostal churches were able to take opportunities to grow aspects of church organisation, which helped to develop a global megachurch status. In this way, these churches took up opportunities that changes in political circumstances in Australia provided, developing a theology of growth actualised in expanding church-branded activities around the globe.

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confidence: 59%

‘An Unstoppable Force for Good’?: How Neoliberal Governance Facilitated the Growth of Australian Suburban-Based Pentecostal Megachurches

Shanahan

2019

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“…As we have argued elsewhere, locating heteroactivism solely within either Christianity or in the right-wing element of the political spectrum is problematic (Browne & Nash, 2014). Such a focus overlooks the geographical and temporal specificities of oppositional organisations, thereby negating the distinctive and contextual ways these resistances take shape (see Maddox, 2014). Research suggests that oppositional groups encompass, but are not limited to, religious resistances including the Catholic and Anglican churches (Johnson & Vanderbeck, 2014;Kuhar & Paternotte, 2017), which entangle the state as well as various conservative and "traditionalist" organisations (Browne & Nash, 2014;Nash & Browne, 2015).…”

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Geographies of heteroactivism: Resisting sexual rights in the reconstitution of Irish nationhood

Browne

Nash

Gorman‐Murray

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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Legislative and cultural changes have produced significant shifts in sexual and gender rights. Although this has been extensively studied in relation to those who have “won” and in relation to the normalisations that these changes create, there is little scholarship on the emergence of new resistances to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans equalities. We employ the term heteroactivism to name the ways that resistances to sexual and gender rights have moved from vilifying “the homosexual,” towards more subtle and nuanced resistances in places with sexual and gender equalities legislation. Geography is key because legislation and its enactment varies spatially, and national legislations and imaginings recreate distinctive, place‐based heteroactivism. Paying attention to the ideologies of those who opposed same‐sex marriage in Ireland's 2015 referendum, this paper explores how the boundaries of Irishness were central to heteroactivist campaigns, drawing on specific invocations of relatedness between a female child and her mother, the quintessential Irish Mammy. Using a close reading of the textual and visual elements of a “Vote No” poster, the paper elucidates the presences and silences of new forms of resistances that seek to recuperate what was once not only “common sense” heterosexuality, but also seen as the essence of Irishness. In doing so, the paper extends understandings of sexuality–gender–nation–state nexus by critically interrogating the ideologies of those who contest progressive state sexual and gender legislation.

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“…5 Surveys since 2007 have shown a majority of Australian voters support same-sex marriage (Johnson et al 2011: 38). Australia does have conservative Christian groups which lobby politically, such as the Australian Christian Lobby (Maddox 2014) and also other groups formed more recently such as the Australian Marriage Forum and COMPARING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA…”

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Comparing Same-Sex Marriage in Australia and Canada: Institutions and Political Will

Johnson¹,

Tremblay²

2016

Gov. & oppos.

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This article explores why there have been such different trajectories in regard to same-sex marriage in Australia and Canada. Canada was one of the first countries to introduce same-sex marriage (in 2005) and, at time of writing, Australia still had not done so.1 The comparison is particularly interesting given that Australia and Canada have relatively similar political institutions except that Australia has no Charter of Rights. Miriam Smith has suggested that institutional factors explain the different trajectories of policies on same-sex marriage in Canada and the US. However, the shift in comparative lens to Canada and Australia provides new insights into the key role of factors influencing ‘political will’ in regard to same-sex marriage in both countries. Those multiple influences do include institutions but also the role played by party electoral strategies. Consequently, the article provides insights into the factors that can influence minority group rights in different national democratic settings.

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Right-wing Christian Intervention in a Naïve Polity

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

‘An Unstoppable Force for Good’?: How Neoliberal Governance Facilitated the Growth of Australian Suburban-Based Pentecostal Megachurches

‘An Unstoppable Force for Good’?: How Neoliberal Governance Facilitated the Growth of Australian Suburban-Based Pentecostal Megachurches

Geographies of heteroactivism: Resisting sexual rights in the reconstitution of Irish nationhood

Comparing Same-Sex Marriage in Australia and Canada: Institutions and Political Will

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