• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Why are missionaries in America? A case study of a Korean mission movement in the United States
  • Beteiligte: Kim, Rebecca Y.
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 2017
  • Erschienen in: Missiology: An International Review, 45 (2017) 4, Seite 426-440
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/0091829617701086
  • ISSN: 0091-8296; 2051-3623
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  • Beschreibung: Why are missionaries coming to the United States? Why is the country that is a top missionary-sending nation also a top missionary destination? Based on an in-depth case study of one of the largest missionary-sending agencies in South Korea that sends many of its missionaries to the United States, this article explores five reasons for the phenomena of missionaries in America. These factors include the perennial importance of the Great Commission among impassioned majority-world evangelicals as well as their framing of the United States as a “great nation,” the “modern Rome,” and a dominant “Christian nation in crisis” in the late 20th century.