Christian Social Movement Vitality

This book examines the factors that contribute to the
formation and activism of social movements. As a
comparative study of Christian social movement across
national/cultural contexts, this book compares the
mobilization of evangelical Christian groups in the
U.S. and Korea. Which forces shape the variations in
the vitality of evangelicals political activities in
the Unite States and Korea? The main factors that
resulted in different trajectories of political
activities among evangelicals in the two countries
are as follows: different structural conditions,
different leaders ideologies, and different types of
political parties. This book should be especially
useful to Christian activists, pastors and
seminarians, scholars and students studying social
movement theories, or anyone else who are interested
in Christians participation in political process.

Autorentext

Won-Geun Kang is Senior Pastor of United Church of Westville(UMC). Hestudied in the U.S. (Yale University: M.Div., SyracuseUniversity: Ph.D., Political Science and M.A., InternationalRelations) and South Korea (Sogang University: M.A., Economics,Hankuk Uni. of Foreign Studies: B.A., English). He worked asEconomist at Korea Development Bank.

Klappentext

This book examines the factors that contribute to theformation and activism of social movements. As acomparative study of Christian social movement acrossnational/cultural contexts, this book compares themobilization of evangelical Christian groups in theU.S. and Korea. Which forces shape the variations inthe vitality of evangelicals' political activities inthe Unite States and Korea? The main factors thatresulted in different trajectories of politicalactivities among evangelicals in the two countriesare as follows: different structural conditions,different leaders' ideologies, and different types ofpolitical parties. This book should be especiallyuseful to Christian activists, pastors andseminarians, scholars and students studying socialmovement theories, or anyone else who are interestedin Christians' participation in political process.