Assertion and Accommodation as a Paradoxical Dance in Achieving Self-Formation of Korean Women in Evangelical Churches

In response to Kelly H. Chong’s book, Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea, the purpose of this article is to suggest that the paradigm of self-formation offers more adequate explanations for evangelical women’s fervent participation in heavily patriarchal churches by understanding assertion and accommodation as the paradoxical dance in achieving self-formation of women in Korean evangelical churches.