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Spreading Protestant Modernity - Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA, 1889-1970 (Paperback)
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Spreading Protestant Modernity - Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA, 1889-1970 (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives on the Global Past
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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 defined its
global mission in 1889. Although their agendas have been
characterized as predominantly religious, both the YMCA and YWCA
were also known for their new vision of a global civil society and
became major agents in the worldwide dissemination of modern
"Western" bodies of knowledge. The YMCA's and YWCA's "secular"
social work was partly rooted in the Anglo-American notions of the
"social gospel" that became popular during the 1890s. The Christian
lay organizations' vision of a "Protestant Modernity" increasingly
globalized their "secular" social work that transformed notions of
science, humanitarianism, sports, urban citizenship, agriculture,
and gender relations. Spreading Protestant Modernity shows how the
YMCA and YWCA became crucial in circulating various forms of
knowledge and practices that were related to this vision, and how
their work was co-opted by governments and rival NGOs eager to
achieve similar ends. The studies assembled in this collection
explore the influence of the YMCA's and YWCA's work on highly
diverse societies in South, Southeast, and East Asia; North
America; Africa; and Eastern Europe. Focusing on two of the most
prominent representative groups within the Protestant youth, social
service, and missionary societies (the so-called "Protestant
International"), the book provides new insights into the evolution
of global civil society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
and its multifarious, seemingly secular, legacies for today's
world. Spreading Protestant Modernity offers a compelling read for
those interested in global history, the history of colonialism and
decolonization, the history of Protestant internationalism, and the
trajectories of global civil society. While each study is based on
rigorous scholarship, the discussion and analyses are in accessible
language that allows everyone from undergraduate students to
advanced academics to appreciate the Y movement's role in social
transformations across the world.
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