The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America

by Rebecca Y. Kim

Book Overview

With the extraordinary growth of Christianity in the global south has come the rise of "reverse missions," in which countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America send missionaries to re-evangelize the West. In The Spirit Moves West, Rebecca Kim uses South Korea as a case study of how non-Western missionaries target Americans, particularly white Americans. She draws on four years of interviews, participant observation, and surveys of South Korea's largest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199942129
• ISBN13: 9780199942121
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"