Description
Book SynopsisThis 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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments – Introduction – A Journey Toward Possible Selves: Korean American Experiences – Re-interpreting Experiences: A Possible Selves Homiletical Solution – Research Design and Methods – Embodied and Relational Possible Selves – Spiritual Possible Selves – Naming the Invisible: Themes in Second Generation Preaching – Conclusion: A Possible Selves Homiletical Vision – Epilogue: Where Do We Go From Here? – Bibliography – Index.
