Sebastian C. H. Kim, Kirsteen Kim

A History of Korean Christianity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an up-to-date, comprehensive history of all Christian denominations in the Korean peninsula set within a global religious and geopolitical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 609g
• ISBN-13: 9781108467711
• ISBN-10: 1108467717
• Artikelnr.: 52157894

Autorenporträt

Sebastian C. H. Kim holds the Chair in Theology and Public Life in the Faculty of Education and Theology at York St John University. He is the author of In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India (2003) and Theology in the Public Sphere (2011), and the editor of a number of books, including Christian Theology in Asia (Cambridge, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Believers
martyrs and missionaries
1392-1876; 3. Evangelism
patriotism and revivalism
1876-1910; 4. Oppression
resistance and millennial hope
1910-45; 5. Liberation
service and divisions
1945-61; 6. Growth
thought and struggle
1961-88; 7. Missions
reconciliation and public life
1988 to the present.