Title
Review: The spirit moves West: Korean missionaries in America by Rebecca Y. Kim
Publication Type
Book Review
Publication Date
6-2016
Abstract
The Spirit Moves West is Pepperdine University sociologist Rebecca Kim's study of missionaries from the Republic of Korea (ROK) to the United States. Kim tells her story through the case study of one Korean missionary organization, University Bible Fellowship (UBF), which was launched in the wake of ROK student unrest in 1961 by American missionary Sarah Barry and Korean pastor Samuel Chang-Woo Lee in Kwangju. Facilitated by Kim's own familial connections at UBF, this sociological account of the organization focuses on its work on American university campuses, an effort launched in 1970 as part of UBF's global campaign to place missionaries in academic institutions in over eighty countries.
Discipline
Religion
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Volume
84
Issue
2
First Page
571
Last Page
574
ISSN
0002-7189
ISBN
9780199942121
Identifier
10.1093/jaarel/lfw034
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy F
Citation
TSE, Justin Kh.(2016). Review: The spirit moves West: Korean missionaries in America by Rebecca Y. Kim. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 84(2), 571-574.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3164
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfw034