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

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70758-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 688 g

Reihe: Theology and Mission in World Christianity

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Becker, Judith

L Robert, Dana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Ökumenik, Konfessionskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.