Modern Mystics by Sir Francis Younghusband 1970

Description: Modern Mystics by Sir Francis Younghusband 1970 Good condition -- see all photos. This is not one of the many reprints issued later. This is the actual book from 1970. This has been deemed a culturally and historically important book. The photos you see here are photos of the actual book that you will receive. Many book sellers online post using stock photos that often don’t resemble the book you actually receive. Sir Francis Younghusband (1863–1942) was a British explorer and mystic famous for his discoveries in Central Asia and his leadership of the British Tibet campaign of 1903–04. This early work by Francis Younghusband was originally published in 1935. ''Modern Mystics' is a work on the phenomenon of mysticism and its role in Islam, Hinduism, Protestantism, and other world religions. Francis Younghusband was born in 1863 at Munree, British India, the son of Major-General John W. Younghusband and Clara Jane Shaw. Younghusband attended Clifton College, Bristol, before entering the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1881. After his time at the Academy he was commissioned as a Subaltern in the 1st King's Dragoon Guards where he began his military career. He rose through the ranks and in 1902, due to fears of Russian expansion, the now Major Younghusband, was promoted to the position of British Commisioner to Tibet, a post he held until 1904. Younghusband married Helen Augusta Magniac, with whom he had two children, a son who died in infancy and a daughter, Dame Eileen Louise Younghusband, DBE (1 January 1902 – 22 May 1981) who was internationally known for her research and teaching in the field of social work. She was a student at the London School of Economics 1926–29, and a member of staff 1944–1958. In her Carnegie Reports of 1947 and 1950 she advocated "generic" training – a set of core knowledge common to all social workers. In 1954 she pioneered the teaching of a generic course that was to become the prototype of professional social work training in other universities.In 1955 she chaired a Ministry of Health working party on the provision of training for social workers, a rapidly expanding profession but with little opportunity for formal training. The subsequent Younghusband Report, which was published in May 1959, led to the establishment of the Council for Training in Social Work. This council was responsible for validating courses at polytechnics and further education institutions primarily for entrants to local authority health and welfare departments, issuing a Certificate in Social Work to those successfully completing such a course. During the 1960s, Younghusband served as a Committee Member of the Council for Training in Social Work. In 1968 Younghusband chaired the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's report, Community Work and Social Change. She was appointed MBE in 1946, CBE in 1955, and DBE in 1964.Eileen Younghusband was also active at an international level, initially through the British Council and the UN, and from 1950 through the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), initially as board member and from 1961 onwards as (honorary) president. She made it her task to promote high standards of social work education across the globe. She is still honored by the IASSW through the biennial Eileen Younghusband memorial lectures (inaugurated 1984) at the global IASSW conference, when a current social work educator is invited to speak at the IASSW conference on a topic of relevance to international social work. Younghusband died in 1981, in a car accident in Raleigh, North Carolina, while on a lecture tour in the United States; she was 79 years old.

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