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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Rebecca Y., 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church work with Korean Americans.

Church work with students.

Evangelistic work.

College students--Religious life.

College students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9780814748619

0814748619

9780814749319

0814749313

9781429490214

1429490217

OCLC:

779828166