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Spreading Protestant modernity : global perspectives on the social work of the YMCA and YWCA, 1889-1970 /
"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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press of Hawaii Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Perspectives on the global past.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Rise and growth of a global "moral empire" : the YMCA and the YWCA during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Harald Fischer-Tiné, Stefan Huebner, Ian Tyrell
- Part I. Origins of the YMCA's and YWCA's social work in Asia : the social gospel and local interpretations
- Vectors of practicality : social gospel, the North American YMCA in Asia, and the global context / Ian Tyrrell
- Proximity, progress, and the YMCA in early twentieth-century Asia, 1902-1912 / Lou Antolihao
- Japanese YMCA, Christian masculinities, and Japan's colonization of Korea, 1905-1919 / Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus
- YMCA's message of public health and masculinity, 1910s-1920s : transnational impacts of the physical education programs in China, the Philippines, and Japan / Stefan Huebner
- Mediating modern motherhood : the Shanghai YWCA's "women's work for women," 1908-1949 / Margaret Mih Tillman
- Part II. YMCA and internationalism after World War I : the attempts to integrate Eastern Europe into a global civil society
- Returning "genuine faith" to modernity : the academic YMCA in interwar Czechoslovakia / Ondřej Matějka
- For the "youth of a great nation" : the American YMCA and nation building in greater Romania in the interwar period / Doina Anca Cretu
- Part III. YMCA and American society : inculcating white Protestant middle class values
- Idiom of modernity and the construction of the native speaker : YMCA language instruction at home and abroad / Lance Cummings
- Building a "modern" "American" "Indian" : the legacy of Y-Indian guides, 1926-1995 / Paul Hillmer, Ryan Bean
- Part IV. Aftermath of facism and World War II : the YWCA social work in Cold War Africa
- Education for leadership : The YMCA in late imperial Ethiopia, 1940s-1970s / Katrin Bromber.