Race for Revival - How Cold War South Korea Shaped the American Evangelical Empire

Race for Revival retells the story of modern American evangelicalism through its relationship with South Korea. Employing a bilingual and bi-national approach, Helen Jin Kim reexamines the narrative of modern evangelicalism through an innovative transpacific framework, offering a new lens through which to understand evangelical history from the Korean War to the rise of Ronald Reagan.

List of contents

• 1. Martyrs: War and World Vision, 1950-1953


• 2. Students: Immigration, Conversion, and White Fundamentalism, 1950-1960


• 3. Orphans: The Mirage of Evangelical Diplomacy, 1960-1969


• 4. Revival: Billy's and Billy's Largest "Crusade," 1969-1973


• 5. Explosion: The "New Emerging Christian Kingdom" and the Christian Right, 1972-1980

About the author

Helen Jin Kim is Associate Professor of American Religious History at Emory University. She completed her PhD in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University and her BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.

Summary

Race for Revival retells the story of modern American evangelicalism through its relationship with South Korea. Employing a bilingual and bi-national approach, Helen Jin Kim reexamines the narrative of modern evangelicalism through an innovative transpacific framework, offering a new lens through which to understand evangelical history from the Korean War to the rise of Ronald Reagan.

Additional text

... a riveting history of US evangelical Christianity, which is inextricable from its Korean counterpart.

Product details

• Authors: Kim , Kim, Helen Jin Kim, Helen Jin (Associate Professor of American Re Kim
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2023
• EAN: 9780197764725
• ISBN: 978-0-19-776472-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Asia / General, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, History of Religion, Asian History, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches