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The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America , written by Rebecca Y. Kim

The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America , written by Rebecca Y. Kim (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). 239 pp. $24.95 cloth. One of the most important developments in today’s mission studies is the Global South or “reverse” missions movement in which churches from the so-called “global south”—Latin America, Africa, and Asia—send missionaries abroad, sometimes even back to the countries whose missionaries originally evangelized them. Rebecca Kim, a sociologist, deals with a case of Korean missionaries to Americans in the United States, specifically the missionaries of the University Bible Fellowship ( ubf ). Using sociological research methods, such as surveys and interviews, Kim investigates the origin, characteristics, and results of the ubf movement in South Korea and the United States. In 1961, Samuel Chang-woo Lee (Presbyterian pastor and English translator for World Vision) and Sarah Barry (American Southern Presbyterian missionary) in South Korea founded the ubf . After the historic student uprising on 19 April 1960, Lee and Barry met and began to evangelize college students at Chonnam and Chosun Universities, both located in Gwangju in southwestern Korea, through teaching them English. Like other campus mission agencies, such as the Campus Crusade for Christ and the Navigators, the ubf experienced rapid growth in the 1970s and 1980s. Nevertheless, the ubf http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

The Spirit Moves West: Korean Missionaries in America , written by Rebecca Y. Kim

Kim, Chil-Sung
Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 23 (2): 186 – Jun 17, 2016
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Brill
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© 2016 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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1058-3947
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1876-5610
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10.1163/18765610-02302004
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(New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). 239 pp. $24.95 cloth. One of the most important developments in today’s mission studies is the Global South or “reverse” missions movement in which churches from the so-called “global south”—Latin America, Africa, and Asia—send missionaries abroad, sometimes even back to the countries whose missionaries originally evangelized them. Rebecca Kim, a sociologist, deals with a case of Korean missionaries to Americans in the United States, specifically the missionaries of the University Bible Fellowship ( ubf ). Using sociological research methods, such as surveys and interviews, Kim investigates the origin, characteristics, and results of the ubf movement in South Korea and the United States. In 1961, Samuel Chang-woo Lee (Presbyterian pastor and English translator for World Vision) and Sarah Barry (American Southern Presbyterian missionary) in South Korea founded the ubf . After the historic student uprising on 19 April 1960, Lee and Barry met and began to evangelize college students at Chonnam and Chosun Universities, both located in Gwangju in southwestern Korea, through teaching them English. Like other campus mission agencies, such as the Campus Crusade for Christ and the Navigators, the ubf experienced rapid growth in the 1970s and 1980s. Nevertheless, the ubf

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