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.
List of Abbreviations
Note on Contributors
1 Introduction: the Young Ecumenical Movement: Explorations in Christian
Internationalism, 18951928
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
18681893
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. Motts Negotiation of
Nationalisms and Racism, 18951925
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. 19101920
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
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.
