"To Promote the Cause of Christ's Kingdom": International Student Associations and the "Revival" of Middle Eastern Christianity
This article traces the presence in the Arab world of international Christian student organizations like the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) and its intercollegiate branches of the YMCA and YWCA associated with the Protestant missionary movement in nineteenth-century Beirut. There, an Amer...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Church history
Year: 2019, Volume: 88, Issue: 1, Pages: 150-163 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lebanon
/ Syria
/ World Student Christian Federation
/ World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations
/ World Young Women's Christian Association
/ Ecumene
/ Islam
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ History 1810-1928
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| RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBL Near East and North Africa KDJ Ecumenism |
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| Summary: | This article traces the presence in the Arab world of international Christian student organizations like the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) and its intercollegiate branches of the YMCA and YWCA associated with the Protestant missionary movement in nineteenth-century Beirut. There, an American-affiliated branch of the YMCA emerged at Syrian Protestant College in the 1890s, and the Christian women's student movement formed in the early twentieth century after a visit from WSCF secretaries John Mott and Ruth Rouse. As such, student movements took on lives of their own, and they developed in directions that Western missionary leaders never anticipated. By attending to the ways in which the WSCF and YMCA/YWCA drew Arabs into the global ecumenical movement, this study examines the shifting aims of Christian student associations in twentieth-century Syria and Lebanon, from missionary-supported notions of evangelical revival to ecumenical renewal and interreligious movements for national reform. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0009640719000556 |