A Christian Worldview and a View of the World: Immigrant Korean Evangelicals and Racial Formation.

This paper examins Korean Evangelicals in the context of racial formation and geopolitics. I show that Korean evangelicals in the United States employ a far-reaching Evangelical Christian worldview to articulate their position as major actors on the world stage. Buoyed by the development of capitalism and democracy in South Korea, Korean evangelicals consider themselves uniquely qualified to carry out the mission of world evangelization. By positioning themselves as akin to white Christian missionaries, immigrant Korean Christians articulate their location in a global racial hierarchy?somewhere below whites, more fortunate than the notoriously non-Christian Japanese, and much better off than the ?unreached people? in the Third World. Their religious worldview, I argue, influence the process of racial formation, understood in this paper as a matter of ?both social structure and cultural representation.? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]