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

1945-1970
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-86415-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations

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 USA, where a ‘loyalty programme’ was introduced, but also in Africa, Asia and Europe. Churches and ecumenical organisations had to navigate in this context of new loyalty demands. They had to clarify whether changes in church/state relations and corresponding changes in their organisational structures were necessary, or whether they affected core identities. Was the restriction or exclusion of Western missionaries a threat to the universal character of the church or a transition to self-governing churches? How did African and Asian churches relate to Western mission societies in the new context? Was the strive for justice a basis for cooperation with socialist governments, or were the concepts fundamentally different? How were denominations organized at a national level? Which forms of church government were chosen? Which denominations could become members of Christian Councils that represented joint interests towards the states? These are some of the questions which underlie the importance of this volume to the study of the history of World Christianity.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosnes, Ellen Vea

Ludwig, Frieder

Pereira, Jairzinho Lopes

Haga, Joar

Wang, Marina Xiaojing

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction  2. Changing Conditions and Changing Contours: World Christianity during the Period of Decolonization and the Cold War  3.  American Protestants and Covert Propaganda in China: Renegotiating Loyalties During World War II  4. Testing Lutheranism in A Time of Revolution: The Divergent Paths of Two Chinese Lutheran Church Leaders  5. Missionary Kids among “Worlds” and Loyalties – The Case of Aadel Brun Tschudi (1909-1980)  6. Rajah Bushanam Manikam, the first Indian Lutheran bishop between Tranquebar and Peking in 1956   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  8. Negotiating a Complex Site of Agricultural Education within the Malagasy Lutheran Church at Independence  9. Umphumulo as a Theological Centre in the 1960s and its International Impact  10. “The wheel of history …  relentlessly rolling forward:” Perspectives of the German Democratic Republic on Lutheran World Federation Assemblies between 1957 – 1970  11. The End of Missionary Transloyalties in the Ecumenical Movement? The “Humanization of the Gospel”, the “Frankfurt Declaration of 1970” and the long 1960s  12. Negotiating Loyalties and Taking Sides: Gudina Tumsa and Tsehay Tolassa in Ethiopia during a Period of Change.

Über Autor(innen)

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 at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.

Jairzinho Lopes Pereira is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre of Mission and Global Studies at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.