Transloyalties, Connected Histories and World Christianity during the Interwar Period 1919-1939

Part One: Introduction and Approach

1. Introduction

Frieder Ludwig, Ellen Vea Rosnes, Joar Haga, Marina Xiaojing Wang & Jairzinho Lopes Pereira

2. Transloyalties

Frieder Ludwig

3. From Ancient Loyalty to Modern (Trans-)Loyalties: A Study from Cosmological, Sociological, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives

Thomas Xutong Qu

Part Two: Contesting Denominational and Political Boundaries during the Interwar Period

4. Formation and Concepts of “World Lutheranism” in the Context of International Developments after 1918

Frieder Ludwig

5. The Lutheran Church of China and World Lutheranism: Through the Lens of Loyalties and Transloyalties, 1920-1949

Marina Xiaojing Wang, Silje Dragsund Aase & Frieder Ludwig

6. Transloyalties and the Rhenish Mission Society in German New Guinea during the First World War

Felicity Jensz

7. The Complicated Loyalties of Lutherans in the United States during the 1920s

 Mark Granquist

8. Reframing Boundaries: Loyalties and Transloyalties in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Protestantism

Marina Xiaojing Wang

9. Navigating through Difficult Times: The Ecumenical Movement in the 1930s

Frieder Ludwig

Part Three: Interactions between International Educational and Health Care Strategies, Colonial Governments and Christian Agencies

10. Transloyalties in Protestant Education and Health Care

Kristin Fjelde Tjelle & Ellen Vea Rosnes

11. Contested Concepts in Lutheran Education and Health Care: Umphumulo (Natal/South Africa) as a Centre of International Networks

Frieder Ludwig

12. African Voices in the Natal Native Teachers’ Journal and Different Views on “Progressive Compromise”

E. Phuti Mogase

13. On Mission in Northern Norway: Transnational Deaconesses. Vocations, Loyalties, Negotiations, ca. 1900–1930

Inger Marie Okkenhaug

14. In Service of Whom? Medical Missions in Hunan, China, 1920-1949

Kristin Fjelde Tjelle

15. Family, Country, Patient: The Transloyalties of a German Medical Missionary in China

Albert Wu.

Index

Biography

Frieder Ludwig is Professor of Global Studies and Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.

Ellen Vea Rosnes is Professor of Intercultural Communication and Global Studies in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.

Joar Haga is Professor of Church History in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.

Marina Xiaojing Wang is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre of Mission and Global Studies (now the Centre of the Study of World Christianity and Religion) at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway (2020–2023).

Jairzinho Lopes Pereira is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre of Mission and Global Studies (now the Centre of the Study of World Christianity and Religion) at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway (2020–2023).