otherwise 1) In another way, differently; 2) Under other circumstances; 3) In other respects.

This Friday 11/27: Evangelizing Development

I'm giving a talk this Friday. I promise it'll be entertaining!

CENTRE FOR KOREAN RESEARCH
Evangelizing Development: Korean/American Missions and Capitalist Deliverance
Ju Hui Judy Han (University of British Columbia)

Friday, November 27
3:30 – 5:00pm
Conference Room #120, C.K. Choi Building
1855 West Mall

Praise for South Korea's transformation from a "mission-receiving" country to the second largest "mission-sending" country in the world is typically accompanied by applause for Korea's economic growth and advancement in the capitalist world order. In such triumphant narratives, Korea is seen as having successfully progressed from poverty to prosperity as a result of Christianization and capitalist development. How do Christians missions nurture such faith in capitalist deliverance, and what is at stake in this evangelical-capitalist assemblage at the present moment? This talk draws primarily from ethnographic research of missions inTanzania and Uganda where Korean/American missionaries taught economic development seminars based explicitly on Korea's Saemaul Undong, a particularly "leader-centered" and austerity-oriented model of modernization from the 1960s and 1970s. I will discuss how the missionaries offered the model as a blueprint for both economic and spiritual progress, recasting its authoritarian roots in Christian terms and using it as a wellspring for a distinctly Korean/American political theology of capitalist development.

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