Helen Jin Kim's book "Race for Revival" argues that the rise of American evangelical empire depended on America’s religious Cold War in Asia. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the first “hot war” of the Cold War, Koreans were indispensable to the transpacific networks that made evangelical America into an empire. In her lecture on November 2, Kim will highlight the case study of Korean War “orphans” who crisscrossed the Pacific with World Vision Inc. in the 1960s. Their stories reveal how the migration of religion and race shaped the reconstruction of modern US evangelical empire.

Helen Jin Kim is Associate Professor of American Religious History at Emory University. She completed her PhD in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University and her BA in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.

This lecture is part of the 'Religions on the Move' lecture series sponsored by the Religious Studies Program and is supported by a grant from Cornell University’s Migrations Global Grand Challenge and the Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative. Co-sponsored by East Asia Program, and Asian American Studies Program.