Spreading Protestant Modernity
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Spreading Protestant Modernity
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Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2020-11-30
Spreading Protestant Modernity written by Harald Fischer-Tiné and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-30 with Religion categories.
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.
Protestant Modernity
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Author : Anthony J. Carroll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Protestant Modernity written by Anthony J. Carroll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Philosophy categories.
""It seems to have been so difficult to detect confessional influences on social theory that it has become a dogma of faith that there are none."" "So says Anthony Carroll in the introduction to his remarkable book, Protestant Modernity: Weber, Secularisation, and Protestantism, in which his ringing and perspicacious dissent reveals that conveniently long-held "dogma" to be false. Carroll frames his study with a multifaceted understanding of secularisation in the broader context of nineteenth-century liberal Protestantism. He reconstructs Max Weber's original writings to highlight Protestant motifs, reviews current secularisation theories, and settles debates about contested meanings of secularisation. This multidisciplinary volume will be essential reading for students and scholars of theology, Weber, and the sociology of religion, for years to come." --Book Jacket.
Catholicism Confronts Modernity
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Author : Langdon Gilkey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Catholicism Confronts Modernity written by Langdon Gilkey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Religion categories.
A Crossroad book.
Protestant Theology And Modernity In The Nineteenth Century Netherlands
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Author : Arie L. Molendijk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Protestant Theology And Modernity In The Nineteenth Century Netherlands written by Arie L. Molendijk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Electronic books categories.
This book examines how nineteenth-century Dutch Protestant theologians and thinkers met the challenges of the modernizing world around them.
Sports And Modernity In Late Imperial Ethiopia
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Author : Katrin Bromber
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022
Sports And Modernity In Late Imperial Ethiopia written by Katrin Bromber and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
This first academic study of the history of modern sports in Ethiopia during the imperial rule of the 20th century argues that modern sports offers new possibilities to explore the meanings of modernity in Africa. Providing an in-depth analysis of the role of sports in modern educational institutions, volunteer organizations, and urbanization processes, the author shows how agents, ideas and practices linked societal improvement and bodily improvement.
The Routledge Handbook On The History Of Development
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Author : Corinna R. Unger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-06-23
The Routledge Handbook On The History Of Development written by Corinna R. Unger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-23 with History categories.
This bold and ambitious handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas, themes, and actors in the twentieth century. Taking stock of the field, the book reflects on blind spots, points out avenues for future research, and brings together a greater plurality of regions, actors, and approaches than other publications on the subject. The book offers a critical reassessment of how historical experiences have shaped contemporary understandings of development, demonstrating that the seemingly self-evident concept of development has been contingent on a combination of material conditions, power structures, and policy choices at different times and in different places. Using a world history approach, the handbook highlights similarities in development challenges across time and space, and it pays attention to the meanings of ideological, cultural, and economic divides in shaping different understandings and practices of development. Taking a thematic approach, the book shows how different actors – governments, non-governmental organizations, individuals, corporations, and international organizations – have responded to concerns regarding the conditions in their own or other societies, such as the provision of education, health, or food; approaches to infrastructure development and industrialization; the adjustment of social conditions; population policies and migration; and the maintenance of stability and security. Bringing together a range of voices from across the globe, this book will be perfect for advanced students and researchers of international development history.
The Modern City In Asia
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Author : Kristin Stapleton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-11
The Modern City In Asia written by Kristin Stapleton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-11 with History categories.
Kristin Stapleton analyzes how concepts and practices associated with the 'modern city' were received, transformed, and contested in Asia over the past 150 years. In the early twentieth century, activists took advantage of the new significance of the city to pursue a wide variety of goals. Thus, the concept of the modern city played an important role in Asia, despite much critical commentary on the ideals associated with it. By the 1940s, the city yielded its political centrality to the nation. Still, modern cities remained an important marker of national achievement during the Cold War. In recent decades, cities have continued to play a central role in economic and cultural affairs in Asia, but the concept of the modern city has evolved. Asian ideas about urban governance and visions of future cities are significantly shaping that evolution.
Central Europe And The Non European World In The Long 19th Century
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Author : Markéta Křížová
language : en
Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH
Release Date : 2022-08-01
Central Europe And The Non European World In The Long 19th Century written by Markéta Křížová and has been published by Frank & Timme GmbH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with History categories.
Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century explores various ways in which inhabitants of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy perceived and depicted the outside world during the era of European imperialism. Focusing particularly on the Czech Lands, Hungary, and Slovakia, with other nations as comparative examples, this collection shows how Central Europeans viewed other regions and their populations, from the Balkans and the Middle East to Africa, China, and America. Although the societies under Habsburg rule found themselves (with rare exceptions) outside the realm of colonialism, their inhabitants also engaged in colonial projects and benefited from these interactions. Rather than taking one “Central European” approach, the volume draws upon accounts not only by writers and travelers, but by painters, missionaries, and other observers, reflecting the diversity that characterized both the region itself and its views of non-Western cultures.
Space And Everyday Lives Of Children In Hong Kong
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Author : Stella Meng Wang
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-01-23
Space And Everyday Lives Of Children In Hong Kong written by Stella Meng Wang and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-23 with Education categories.
Deploying a spatial approach towards children’s everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperial hygiene movement; nationalist sentiments; the Young Women's Christian Association; and the Girl Guide. Locating these transnational cultural movements in four layers of context, from the most immediate to the most global, including the context of Hong Kong, Republican China, the British empire, and global influences, this book shows Hong Kong as a distinctive colonial domain where the imperatives around race, gender and class produced new products of empire where the child, the garden, the school and sport turned out to be the main dynamics in play in the interwar period.
Imagining Childhood Improving Children
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Author : Catriona Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Imagining Childhood Improving Children written by Catriona Ellis and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with History categories.