scholarly journals The General Characteristics and Historical Change of ‘The Korean Methodist Church’

2010 ◽  
Vol null (58) ◽  
pp. 219-274
Author(s):  
류성민
Keyword(s):  
Historical Change ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Korean Methodist Church ◽  
Korean Methodist

scholarly journals Loving My New Neighbor: The Korean-American Methodists’ Response to the UMC Debate over LGBTQ Individuals in Everyday Life

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 561
Author(s):  
Jeyoul Choi
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Methodist Church ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Korean Methodist Church ◽  
Religious Issue ◽  
American Society

The recent nationwide debate of American Protestant churches over the ordination and consecration of LGBTQ clergymen and laypeople has been largely divisive and destructive. While a few studies have paid attention to individual efforts of congregations to negotiate the heated conflicts as their contribution to the denominational debate, no studies have recounted how post-1965 immigrants, often deemed as “ethnic enclaves apart from larger American society”, respond to this religious issue. Drawing on an ethnographic study of a first-generation Korean Methodist church in the Tampa Bay area, Florida, this article attempts to fill this gap in the literature. In brief, I argue that the Tampa Korean-American Methodists’ continual exposure to the Methodist Church’s larger denominational homosexuality debate and their personal relationships with gay and lesbian friends in everyday life together work to facilitate their gradual tolerance toward sexual minorities as a sign of their accommodation of individualistic and democratic values of American society.

The Strains of Historical Change

1969 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 336-338
Author(s):  
ERIC SCHOPLER
Keyword(s):  
Historical Change
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