Spreading Protestant Modernity - Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and Ywca, 1889-1970

About the author

Harald Fischer-Tiné (Editor)
Harald Fischer-Tiné is professor of modern global history at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich).

Stefan Huebner (Editor)
Stefan Huebner is senior research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Ian Tyrrell (Editor)
Ian Tyrrell retired as Scientia Professor of History at the University of New South Wales and is now emeritus professor of history.

Summary

Explores 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. 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Harald Fischer-Tine (Editor), Harald Fischer-Tiné (Editor), Stefan Huebner (Editor), Ian Tyrrell (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780824884611
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-8461-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 552 g
• Series: Perspectives on the Global Past; Perspectives on the Global Pas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous