Preaching to Possible Selves : A Contextual Homiletic for Second Generation Korean Americans
Preaching to Possible Selves : A Contextual Homiletic for Second Generation Korean Americans
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Author(s): Kim, Matthew D.
ISBN No.: 9781433184451
Edition: Revised
Pages: 226
Year: 202104
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 123.13
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

This in-depth study on preaching to second generation Korean Americans, the first of its kind, is based on empirical and ethnographic fieldwork. Matthew D. Kim conducted surveys and semi-structured qualitative interviews with Korean American pastors and second generation young adult respondents in three geographic regions of the United States: the Midwest, the West Coast, and the East Coast. His primary conceptual framework employs social psychologists Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius's theory of possible selves to facilitate the process of congregational exegesis in the second generation Korean American church context. This book offers a new contextual homiletic model that enables Korean American preachers to engage in deeper levels of ethnic and cultural analysis in their sermonic preparation. Simultaneously, the author reconstructs conventional preaching roles of Korean American preachers and second generation listeners so that they may co-creatively imagine new possible selves that radically advance Christian mission and practice in the world. This book will serve as a primary or secondary source for upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate courses on preaching, communication studies, ethnic and racial studies, cross-cultural ministry, or social psychology.


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