Born Again: Evangelicalism in Korea 9780824837600

Known as Asia’s "evangelical superpower," South Korea today has some of the largest and most dynamic churches

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Born Again: Evangelicalism in Korea
 9780824837600

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Breakthrough for a New Moral Order, 1885–1919
Chapter 2. Conflict, Introversion, and a Tradition of Korean Revivalists, 1920–1953
Chapter 3. Evangelicalism Takes Off in South Korea, 1953–1988
Chapter 4. The Intensely Practical and Devotional Character of Korean Evangelicalism
Epilogue. The Beleaguered Success of Korean Evangelicalism in The 1990S
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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