Nationalism and Internationalism in the Young Ecumenical Movement, 1895-1920s

Judith Becker, Dana Robert (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

504 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70758-0 (ISBN)

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This groundbreaking set of essays locates the existence of a “young ecumenical movement” in the dynamic tension between nationalism and internationalism, and argues for the centrality of global Christian community in the forming of early twentieth-century internationalism.

This book explores how and why global Protestant movements have been foundational for studies of internationalism. During the early twentieth century, hopes for the peaceful coexistence of nations animated emerging international Protestant cooperation. Despite national hostilities including world war, commitment to global Christian fellowship became an urgent public agenda. In this volume, essays by European, Asian, and North American scholars locate the essence of the “young ecumenical movement" in the dynamic tension between nationalism and internationalism during the early twentieth century. Political crises, crushing disappointments, and imperialist ambitions notwithstanding, transnational Protestant leaders, networks, and movements envisioned Christianity as a contemporary multi-cultural, worldwide community.

Judith Becker (Ph.D., Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Habilitation Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), is Professor of Early Modern and Modern History of Christianity at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has published e.g. Conversio im Wandel: Basler Missionare zwischen Europa und Südindien und die Ausbildung einer Kontaktreligiosität. Dana L. Robert (Ph.D., Yale University), is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission, at Boston University. Among her books is Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion.

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Note on Contributors

1 Introduction: the Young Ecumenical Movement: Explorations in Christian Internationalism, 1895–1928

Dana L. Robert and Judith Becker

PART 1: Foundations for Internationalism in the Young Ecumenical Movement

2 Ecumenical Prehistory: Philip Schaff and the Evangelical Alliance 1868–1893

John Wolffe

3 “At the Special Request and Invitation of the Indian … Y.M.C.A.s”: The YMCA as a Platform of Encounter and Transregional Network of Asian Christian Leaders in Early Twentieth Century

Klaus Koschorke

4 The Ethical Purpose: Indian Ecumenists and Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century

John Thomas

5 Travelling with John Mott: Switzerland and the World Student Christian Federation

Sarah Scholl

6 Pragmatic Christian Internationalist: John R. Mott’s Negotiation of Nationalisms and Racism, 1895–1925

Benjamin L. Hartley

7 Internationalism and the Imaginations of the Other: Japanese andBritish Female Leadership in the Early Ecumenical Movement after the Russo-Japanese War

Noriko K. Ishii

PART 2: Convergence and Coalescence in the Young Ecumenical Movement

8 Ecumenism and the Anglophone Armies of World War I: the British, Canadian, and American Experience

Michael Snape

9 Nationalism, Internationalism, and Ecclesiology at the 1920 Lambeth Conference

Charlotte Methuen

10 Norwegian Missionaries, Education, and Ecumenical Cooperation in Madagascar: Processes of Transloyalties, ca. 1910–1920

Frieder Ludwig and Ellen Vea Rosnes

11 Protestant State Theologians of Fellowship: From Christendom to Ecumenism in Postwar Europe

Dana L. Robert

12 “Missionary Conquest and World Betterment”: the American Methodist Mission Centenary and Wilsonian Internationalism

David W. Scott

PART 3: Negotiating Nationalisms in Internationalist Perspective

13 French Protestant Internationalism and the Loss of the Promised Land, 1920s

Patrick Cabanel

14 The German Ecumenical Youth Movement between Internationalism and Nationalism during World War I and in the Postwar Period

Judith Becker

15 Protestant Missionary Ecumenism and Arab Nationalism in the Middle East

Deanna Ferree Womack

16 Between China and the World: Yu Rizhang and the Chinese YMCA in the 1920s

Yun Zhou

17 Partnership in Christian Internationalism: the Young Ecumenical Movement of the IMC and the Korean YMCA for the Rural Reconstruction in the 1920s

Yeonseung Lee

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Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Theology and Mission in World Christianity ; 34
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	847 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	90-04-70758-1 / 9004707581
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70758-0 / 9789004707580
Zustand	Neuware