Lee, Timothy S.

Born again evangelicalism in Korea / [electronic resource] : Timothy S. Lee. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xvi, 228 p.)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-220) and index.

Breakthrough for a new moral order, 1885-1919 -- Conflict, introversion, and a tradition of Korean revivalists, 1920-1953 -- Evangelicalism takes off in South Korea, 1953-1988 -- The intensely practical and devotional character of Korean Evangelicalism -- The beleaguered success of Korean Evangelicalism in th 1990s.

"Born Again" is the first book in a Western language to consider the introduction, development, and character of evangelicalism in Korea - from its humble beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century to claiming one out of every five South Koreans as an adherent at the end of the twentieth. --from publisher description

9781441671431 (electronic bk.) 1441671439 (electronic bk.)


Presbyterianische Kirche in Korea


Geschichte


Evangelicalism--History.--Korea (South)
Protestantism--Korea (South)
Evangelikale Bewegung
Protestantismus


Korea (South)--Church history--20th century.
Korea
Südkorea


Electronic books.

BR1642.K6 / L44 2010eb

280/.4095195