Korean Christian Missionaries in High‐Risk Countries
Interaction with International Religious Networks and Domestic Response
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7867433 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jihye Jung (0000-0002-8767-6833, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 561-578 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jssr.12909 |
| OpenAlex | W4393253993 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
Why do some Christian foreign mission groups dispatch missionaries to some culturally and politically risky states where they face personal risks and political entanglements? Using world polity theory, I argue that local religious groups’ motivations are driven by their involvement in international religious networks, which mobilize missionaries to go to places such as Muslim countries. Based on 30 semistructured interviews with South Korean missionaries and leaders of churches and mission organizations, I illuminate that globally shared discourse of unreached people encouraged missionaries to volunteer to go to high‐risk states. I also suggest that Korean religious actors did not passively accept the influence of the international discourse but also reconstructed the discourse. The study also highlights that a missionary's dual identity as a religious actor and another profession to get a visa in high‐risk countries is bound up with the state's surveillance and potential persecution
Face (sociological concept) · Identity (music) · Persecution · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Gender Studies · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
“Reverse Mission”
Global Pentecostalism
The cultural and religious character of world society
The History of the Lausanne Movement, 1974–2010
The Gendered Politics of the Korean Protestant Right
Imagining Persecution
The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations
The Power of Human Rights
Lausanne 1974’
World Culture in the World Polity
Culture in Action
The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship
The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy
The International Women's Movement and Women's Political Representation, 1893-2003
The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century
The Political Salience of Cultural Difference
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
Missions, Social Change, and Resistance to Authority
Ethnic and Nationalist Violence
The Role of Short-Term Mission Teams in the New Centers of Global Christianity
Taking Talk Seriously
Redeeming, Ruling, and Reaping
World Society and the Nation-State
Institutionalized Organizations
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |