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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820755603321

Autore

Kim Rebecca Y. <1974->

Titolo

God's new whiz kids? [[electronic resource] ] : Korean American evangelicals on campus / / Rebecca Y. Kim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8147-4861-9

0-8147-4931-3

1-4294-9021-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

277.3/083089957

Soggetti

Church work with Korean Americans

Church work with students

Evangelistic work

College students - Religious life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Changing face of campus evangelicalism : Asian American evangelicals -- Second-generation Korean American evangelicals and the immigrant church -- Korean American campus ministries in the marketplace -- Emergent ethnic group formation -- A closer look at the ties that bind -- White flight and crossing boundaries -- "Why can't Christians all just get along?" -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In the past twenty years, many traditionally white campus religious groups have become Asian American. Today there are more than fifty evangelical Christian groups at UC Berkeley and UCLA alone, and 80% of their members are Asian American. At Harvard, Asian Americans constitute 70% of the Harvard Radcliffe Christian Fellowship, while at Yale, Campus Crusade for Christ is now 90% Asian. Stanford's Intervarsity Christian Fellowship has become almost entirely Asian. There has been little research, or even acknowledgment, of this striking development. God's New Whiz Kids? focuses on second-generation