Social sources of church growth
Subtitle: Korean churches in the homeland and overseas
By: Gil Soo Han.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Koreans -- Australia -- Religion.; Australia -- Church history -- 20th century.; Korea -- Church history.
Description: Social Sources of Church Growth is the product of a comprehensive scientific study conducted to unveil the unexplained explosive growth of the Korean church both in Korea and overseas. Despite much discourse on this subject, Han explains that previous attempts to understand growth are futile without first employing the concept of church as social institution. Han investigates the growth with references to pervasive Korean culture, education, industrialization, and other religions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents: Introduction; Literature Review; Conceptual Framework and Methodology; THE GROWTH OF CHURCH IN KOREA; The Growth of the Church in Korea Up to 1960; Church Growth, Industrialization, Materialism and the Birth of Religio-Economic Entrepreneurship; THE GROWTH OF THE KOREAN ETHNIC CHURCHES IN SYDNEY; Overview of the Life of Koreans and Korean Churches in Sydney; The Ethnic Dimension of Korean Churches in Sydney; The Political Dimensions of Korean Churches in Sydney; Summary and Conclusion.