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Transloyalties, Connected Histories and World Christianity during the Period of Decolonization and the Cold War: 1945-1970 book cover

1st Edition

Transloyalties, Connected Histories and World Christianity during the Period of Decolonization and the Cold War 1945-1970

Edited By Frieder Ludwig, Ellen Vea Rosnes, Joar Haga, Marina Xiaojing Wang, Jairzinho Lopes Pereira Copyright 2026
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge
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Focusing on the history of World Christianity, this book relates the concept of  “transloyalties” to developments during the “Period of Decolonization and the Cold War.” This was a time when the terms “loyal” and “loyalty” became more frequently used, not only in the United States, where a “loyalty program” was introduced but also in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Churches and ecumenical... Read more

1. Introduction

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

2. Changing Conditions and Changing Contours: World Christianity during the Period of Decolonization and the Cold War

 Frieder Ludwig

3. American Protestants and Covert Propaganda in China: Renegotiating Loyalties During World War II

Thomas W. Seat

4. Testing Lutheranism in A Time of Revolution: The Divergent Paths of Two Chinese Lutheran Church Leaders

Silje Dragsund Aase, Frieder Ludwig & Marina Xiaojing Wang

5. Missionary Kids among “Worlds” and Loyalties – The Case of Aadel Brun Tschudi (1909-1980)

Kristin Fjelde Tjelle

6. Rajah Bushanam Manikam, the first Indian Lutheran bishop between Tranquebar and Peking in 1956

Frieder Ludwig

7. ‘For Want of a Portuguese Soul’: Loyalty/Disloyalty Narratives in the Context of the Missionary Work of American Methodists in Northern Angola in the Early 1960s

Jairzinho Lopes Pereira

8. Negotiating a Complex Site of Agricultural Education within the Malagasy Lutheran Church at Independence

Henning Møller Christensen & Ellen Vea Rosnes

9. Umphumulo as a Theological Centre in the 1960s and its International Impact

Frieder Ludwig

10. “The wheel of history …  relentlessly rolling forward:” Perspectives of the German Democratic Republic on Lutheran World Federation Assemblies between 1957 – 1970

Frieder Ludwig

11. The End of Missionary Transloyalties in the Ecumenical Movement? The “Humanization of the Gospel”, the “Frankfurt Declaration of 1970” and the long 1960s

Katharina Kunter

12. Negotiating Loyalties and Taking Sides: Gudina Tumsa and Tsehay Tolassa in Ethiopia during a Period of Change.

Frieder Ludwig & E. Phuti Mogase

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).

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