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

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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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