Spreading Protestant Modernity : : Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA, 1889–1970 / / ed. by Ian Tyrrell, Harald Fischer-Tiné, Stefan Huebner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Antolihao, Lou,; Bean, Ryan,; Bromber, Katrin,; Cretu, Doina Anca,; Cummings, Lance,; Fischer-Tiné, Harald,; Hillmer, Paul,; Huebner, Stefan,; Matějka, Ondřej,; Neuhaus, Dolf-Alexander,; Tillman, Margaret Mih,; Tyrrell, Ian,
• HerausgeberIn: Fischer-Tiné, Harald,; Huebner, Stefan,; Tyrrell, Ian,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on the Global Past
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations

A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a modernization agenda around the globe. Soon followed by a sister organization, the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), founded in 1855, the Y-movement...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Conventions
• Introduction The Rise and Growth of a Global “Moral Empire”: The YMCA and YWCA during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
• Part I. The Origins of the YMCA’s and YWCA’s Social Work in Asia: The Social Gospel and Local Interpretations
• 1 Vectors of Practicality: Social Gospel, the North American YMCA in Asia, and the Global Context
• 2 Proximity, Progress, and the YMCA in Early Twentieth-Century Asia, 1902–1912
• 3 The Japanese YMCA, Christian Masculinities, and Japan’s Colonization of Korea, 1905–1919
• 4 The YMCA’s Message of Public Health and Masculinity, 1910s–1920s: Transnational Impacts of the Physical Education Programs in China, the Philippines, and Japan
• 5 Mediating Modern Motherhood: The Shanghai YWCA’s “Women’s Work for Women,” 1908–1949
• Part II. The YMCA and Internationalism after World War I: The Attempts to Integrate Eastern Europe into a Global Civil Society
• 6 Returning “Genuine Faith” to Modernity: The Academic YMCA in Interwar Czechoslovakia
• 7 For the “Youth of a Great Nation”: The American YMCA and Nation Building in Greater Romania in the Interwar Period
• Part III. The YMCA and American Society: Inculcating White Protestant Middle-Class Values
• 8 The Idiom of Modernity and the Construction of the Native Speaker: YMCA Language Instruction at Home and Abroad
• 9 Building a “Modern” “American” “Indian”: The Legacy of Y-Indian Guides, 1926–1995
• Part IV. The Aftermath of Fascism and World War II: The YMCA’s Social Work in Cold War Africa
• 10 Education for Leadership: The YMCA in Late Imperial Ethiopia, 1940s–1970s
• Contributors
• Index