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Beyond belief: how Pentecostal Christianity is taking over the world | Elle Hardy | CLH Talks: Elle Hardy, journalist and author of Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World, joined Central London Humanists for an in person talk and discussion about her fascinating new book. (Central London Humanists, 5 July 2023)
Why are Pentecostals taking over the world? In conversation with Elle Hardy: Nick Spencer talks to journalist and author Elle Hardy about her book Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World. (Reading Our Times, 4 July 2023)
Freethought Matters: Elle Hardy: Elle Hardy is an Australian born freelance journalist and a writer whose new book is called Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World. It's a fascinating exposé of how Pentecostalism, a deep pocketed, tech savvy Christian movement, is reshaping our societies from within. (Freedom From Religion Foundation, 9 March 2023).
The Pentecostal Church is Converting 35,000 People Every Day and Taking Over the World (The Michael Shermer Show, 11 February 2023)
Are the End Times near? How Pentecostal Christianity is taking over the world: In her new book ‘Beyond Belief,’ journalist Elle Hardy writes about her encounters around the globe with the fast-growing religion, and theorizes about what makes it so popular. (Times of Israel, 15 October 2022)
Inside the ‘school’ for men caught paying for sex: Police in Texas and across the US regularly conduct operations to catch men seeking sex workers’ services. Programs bankrolled by evangelical churches promise to change them. (The Guardian, 12 July 2022)
Britain’s gypsies have seen the light: They are converting to Pentecostalism in large numbers (The Economist, 16 June 2022)
Pentecostalism is Taking Over the World (Straight White American Jesus, 6 June 2022)
#118 w Elle Hardy on Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World (Yeah Nah Pasaran!, June 2, 2022)
QAnon, Trump & the Pentecostal Church: Elle Hardy (On the Edge with Andrew Gold, 28 April 2022)
How Pentecostal Christianity is taking over the world: an interview with author Elle Hardy (Religion Dispatches, 18 April 2022)
Pentecostalism Is Becoming the New Religion of the Global Poor (Jacobin Magazine, 15 April 2022)
Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed (Discovery+ documentary, 24 March 2022)
How Pentecostal Christianity is taking over the world: an interview with Elle Hardy (Current Affairs magazine podcast, 14 March 2022)
Why is Pentecostalism on the rise? (ABC Late Night Live, 17 February 2022)
‘Beyond Belief’: Elle Hardy on how Pentecostalism is taking over the world (Happy Magazine, 10 February 2022)
'It’s wild that no one knows about this stuff': A conversation with Elle Hardy (The Terminal, 9 February 2022)
Rise of the Pentecostals: (Catholic Weekly, 7 February 2022) [page two here]
How Pentecostalism is reshaping America and the world: (Australian Financial Review, 29 January 2022)
The rise and rise of Hillsong: In this extract from the book, “Beyond Belief”, Elle Hardy describes the growth and global influence of the church, whose faithful in its early days counted Prime Minister Scott Morrison. (Australian Financial Review, 28 January 2022)
Inside the fastest growing religious movement on earth: The agnostic journalist Elle Hardy has been investigating how Pentecostalism is taking over the world. Here’s what she discovered. (Premier Christianity, 27 January 2022)
God and mammon, all in the one package (review): The idea that modernity would eventually cause religion to wither away is perhaps a peculiarly European belief. (Irish Times, 9 December 2021)
Beyond Belief by Elle Hardy review: How Pentecostalism is sweeping the globe, by Christina Pearson: This alarming book investigates the truth behind the world’s fastest-growing religion. (Sunday Times, 20 November 2021)
How Pentecostalism took over the world: Boosted by the support of Premier League stars, the faith is predicted to have a billion believers by 2050. Elle Hardy has been following the faithful. (Sunday Times, 14 November 2021)
Britain’s Gypsies are converting: The evangelist Spirit is moving through the community. (UnHerd, 10 November 2021)
In reckoning with its demons, Hillsong will be forced to move away from what made it powerful: Reining in its pastors and dealing with the scandals enveloping the megachurch risks creating a brand that’s bland and bureaucratic. (The Guardian, 2 October 2021)