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

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.

• List of AbbreviationsNote on Contributors1 Introduction: the Young Ecumenical Movement: Explorations in Christian Internationalism, 1895–1928Dana L. Robert and Judith BeckerPART 1: Foundations for Internationalism in the Young Ecumenical Movement2 Ecumenical Prehistory: Philip Schaff and the Evangelical Alliance 1868–1893John Wolffe3 “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 CenturyKlaus Koschorke4 The Ethical Purpose: Indian Ecumenists and Nationalism in the Early Twentieth CenturyJohn Thomas5 Travelling with John Mott: Switzerland and the World Student Christian FederationSarah Scholl6 Pragmatic Christian Internationalist: John R. Mott’s Negotiation of Nationalisms and Racism, 1895–1925Benjamin L. Hartley7 Internationalism and the Imaginations of the Other: Japanese andBritish Female Leadership in the Early Ecumenical Movement after the Russo-Japanese War Noriko K. IshiiPART 2: Convergence and Coalescence in the Young Ecumenical Movement8 Ecumenism and the Anglophone Armies of World War I: the British, Canadian, and American ExperienceMichael Snape9 Nationalism, Internationalism, and Ecclesiology at the 1920 Lambeth ConferenceCharlotte Methuen10 Norwegian Missionaries, Education, and Ecumenical Cooperation in Madagascar: Processes of Transloyalties, ca. 1910–1920Frieder Ludwig and Ellen Vea Rosnes11 Protestant State Theologians of Fellowship: From Christendom to Ecumenism in Postwar EuropeDana L. Robert12 “Missionary Conquest and World Betterment”: the American Methodist Mission Centenary and Wilsonian InternationalismDavid W. ScottPART 3: Negotiating Nationalisms in Internationalist Perspective13 French Protestant Internationalism and the Loss of the Promised Land, 1920sPatrick Cabanel14 The German Ecumenical Youth Movement between Internationalism and Nationalism during World War I and in the Postwar PeriodJudith Becker15 Protestant Missionary Ecumenism and Arab Nationalism in the Middle EastDeanna Ferree Womack16 Between China and the World: Yu Rizhang and the Chinese YMCA in the 1920sYun Zhou17 Partnership in Christian Internationalism: the Young Ecumenical Movement of the IMC and the Korean YMCA for the Rural Reconstruction in the 1920sYeonseung LeeIndex