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