Abstract
With the release of their 2009 album, No Line on the Horizon,1 the world’s most successful rock band produced what they conceived to be a collection of “future hymns or future spirituals.”2 The following U2 360° tour—which, to date, is the highest grossing tour in the history of popular music3—further promoted U2’s theme of future spirituality. The centerpiece of these concerts was a 50-meter-high, stadium-dwarfing stage, which U2 had designed to look like a spaceship crossed with a cathedral.4