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

• Autore: Kim Rebecca Y. <1974->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 277.3/083089957
• Soggetto topico: Church work with Korean Americans; Church work with students; Evangelistic work; College students - Religious life
• Soggetto non controllato: American; Asian; Gods; Kids; Whiz; campus; documents; evangelical; explosive; growth; organizations
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: God's new whiz kids
• ISBN: 0-8147-4861-9; 0-8147-4931-3; 1-4294-9021-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778297903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II