A World of Crisis and Progress The American YMCA in Japan, 1890-1930

by Davidann, Jon Thares

• ISBN13: 9780934223430
• ISBN10: 0934223432
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press

Summary

Three related themes weave through the experience of the American YMCA missionaries and Japanese Christians between 1890-1930: the connection between national identity and Christianity, resulting conflicts between these Christians, and an alternating sense of crisis and progress. In the 1920s, tensions between Americans and Japanese leaders led the American YMCA missionary movement to reevaluate its purpose and forced it away from nationalism.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(10)
Introduction	19	(10)
1. The American YMCA and the Missionary Revival	29	(23)
2. Japanese Christians and Cultural Nationalism	52	(28)
3. The Struggle for Independence	80	(20)
4. Social Problems and the Russo-Japanese War	100	(30)
5. YMCA Postwar Imperialism in Korea and Manchuria	130	(21)
6. The Crisis of Christian Nationalism	151	(12)
Notes	163	(25)
Bibliography	188	(13)
Index	201