Balancing Communities: Nation, State, and Protestant Christianity in Korea, 1884-1942

by Paul S Cha and Cha

Book Overview

Starting in 1884 with the arrival of the first resident Protestant missionary in Korea and ending with the expulsion of missionaries from the peninsula by the Japanese colonial government in 1942, Balancing Communities examines how the competing demands of communal identities and memberships shaped the early history of Protestantism in Korea. In so doing, the author challenges the conventional history of Korean Protestantism in terms of its relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824891082
• ISBN13: 9780824891084
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 260 Pages