Heather Mellquist Lehto
Biographic Data
| ID | 755355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Mellquist Lehto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather Mellquist |
| FAMILY NAME | Lehto |
| SIGNATURE | LEHTO H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8222-7991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reflecting on Community and Practice in Religion and Science Discourse
Grafting Missionary Infrastructures: Korean Missions to Cambodia in an IT Age
In the late twentieth century, South Korea simultaneously became both one of the world’s foremost Christian missionary-sending countries and a leader in communication technologies. This coincidence has given rise to the notion that South Korea’s emergence as a leader of global Christianity is owing, at least in part, to the technological infrastructures that Korean Christians have developed for missions. But if South Korean Christians are the eng…
Global Christianity as Method: Reorienting the Study of American Mega- and Multisite Churches
Scholarship in global Christianity has brought greater attention to understudied and/or marginalized Christian communities beyond the Euro-Atlantic. However, work within the subfield has also unwittingly reproduced colonial tropes and hierarchies in its approach to the study of non-Western Protestant communities. For example, scholarship on megachurches has largely echoed the narrative that non-Western megachurches are reproductions and/or adapta…
Designing Secularity at Sarang Church
The Sarang Global Ministry Center (SGMC) in Seoul, South Korea, is well known for its architectural design and for several controversies surrounding its construction. The SGMC does not have conventional Christian architectural features, such as a steeple or stone facade; instead, the church resembles a luxury department store. Reactions to this building have been mixed, reflecting differing opinions about Christianity in South Korea. Some value t…
Reflections on Covid-19
COVID-19, Religious Markets, and the Black Church, Marla FrederickCan You See the Big Picture? COVID-19 and Telescoping Truth, Yunus Doğan TellielLearning from Religious Diasporas in Pandemic Times, Heather Mellquist Lehto
Screen Christianity: Video Sermons in the Creation of Transnational Korean Churches
This article attends to the central role of video and projection screens in transnational multisite churches based in South Korea. Drawing on field research in Seoul and in Los Angeles, this article illustrates how the relationship between congregants and the screens themselves is a condition for the emergence of a particular configuration of Christian community, which I will peirastically call "screen Christianity." The place of screens and thei…
Click and Touch
Reflections on Covid-19
COVID-19, Religious Markets, and the Black Church, Marla FrederickCan You See the Big Picture? COVID-19 and Telescoping Truth, Yunus Doğan TellielLearning from Religious Diasporas in Pandemic Times, Heather Mellquist Lehto
Screen Christianity: Video Sermons in the Creation of Transnational Korean Churches
This article attends to the central role of video and projection screens in transnational multisite churches based in South Korea. Drawing on field research in Seoul and in Los Angeles, this article illustrates how the relationship between congregants and the screens themselves is a condition for the emergence of a particular configuration of Christian community, which I will peirastically call "screen Christianity." The place of screens and thei…
Click and Touch
Designing Secularity at Sarang Church
The Sarang Global Ministry Center (SGMC) in Seoul, South Korea, is well known for its architectural design and for several controversies surrounding its construction. The SGMC does not have conventional Christian architectural features, such as a steeple or stone facade; instead, the church resembles a luxury department store. Reactions to this building have been mixed, reflecting differing opinions about Christianity in South Korea. Some value t…
Reflections on Covid-19
COVID-19, Religious Markets, and the Black Church, Marla FrederickCan You See the Big Picture? COVID-19 and Telescoping Truth, Yunus Doğan TellielLearning from Religious Diasporas in Pandemic Times, Heather Mellquist Lehto
Global Christianity as Method: Reorienting the Study of American Mega- and Multisite Churches
Scholarship in global Christianity has brought greater attention to understudied and/or marginalized Christian communities beyond the Euro-Atlantic. However, work within the subfield has also unwittingly reproduced colonial tropes and hierarchies in its approach to the study of non-Western Protestant communities. For example, scholarship on megachurches has largely echoed the narrative that non-Western megachurches are reproductions and/or adapta…
Reflecting on Community and Practice in Religion and Science Discourse
Grafting Missionary Infrastructures: Korean Missions to Cambodia in an IT Age
In the late twentieth century, South Korea simultaneously became both one of the world’s foremost Christian missionary-sending countries and a leader in communication technologies. This coincidence has given rise to the notion that South Korea’s emergence as a leader of global Christianity is owing, at least in part, to the technological infrastructures that Korean Christians have developed for missions. But if South Korean Christians are the eng…
Sociology (6 works) · Christianity (5 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works)