Transloyalties, Connected Histories and World Christianity during the Period of Decolonization and the Cold War (eBook, PDF)

1945-1970
Redaktion: Ludwig, Frieder; Pereira, Jairzinho Lopes; Wang, Marina Xiaojing; Haga, Joar; Rosnes, Ellen Vea

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Produktbeschreibung

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 organizations 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 organizational 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 toward the states? These are some of the questions that underlie the importance of this volume to the study of the history of World Christianity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040382097
• Artikelnr.: 74449049

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.